NURTURED is a 3-month mental and emotional wellbeing support program for women who are thinking about or have started their quest to become a Mother and are wanting to feel supported and develop their internal resources so they feel confident and calm throughout and beyond their fertility journey. Whether that be naturally or via assisted reproduction such as IVF.

This program is for you if you are:

• Confused and overwhelmed by all the conflicting advice you are receiving.
• Feeling like you’ve lost your sense of identity and purpose in life right now on your quest to become a mother.
• Experiencing feelings of sadness, jealousy, anger or bitterness about friends or family falling pregnant.
• Craving some support and empathy and a non- judgmental safe place to land where you can feel understood and heard and where all emotions are welcome to be aired.
• Conscious that you have withdrawn from some of your usual social activities and pleasures.

And you’re ready to:

• feel nurtured, calm and in control regardless of the situation thrown your way, be that a medical setback, financial stress, relationship challenge.
• be your old self again, after so much time focused on trying to fall pregnant and that process, losing connection to your internal source of peace and joy.
• have clarity around the road ahead and be more excited about your day-to-day life.

I WOULD BE HONOURED TO WALK BESIDE YOU AND HELP SUPPORT YOU ON YOUR PATH TO CREATING A FAMILY

I understand how you are feeling. I’ve been there.

I'm so pleased that you’re here.

Before I became a coach, I lived through the disappointment and grief of 7 x unsuccessful IVF treatments, which led to a heartbreaking and unexpected divorce of my first marriage followed by all of the challenges that accompanied those major life upheavals and reality slaps.

I found myself about to turn 40 with no husband, no baby and feeling like I didn’t know what I wanted to be when I grew up due to everything I’d put on hold on my own quest to becoming a Mum.

Through my own personal experiences, I recognised the need for more empathy and support in our community for women going through fertility challenges and I knew this was where I wanted to help.

I now coach and mentor other women to help make their path a less lonely, more supported one. I know the importance of maintaining a strong sense of self and having the right kind of support around you through the challenges that a fertility journey can present, so that you can thrive, regardless of the outcome.

My life took a completely different route than the one I originally mapped out for myself years ago, and I could not have predicted just how rocky that road was going to be to arrive here, re-married, another 4 x IVFs under my belt, and with our beautiful little girl, Zoe, who is now 4 years old.

Through this journey I learned coping strategies the hard way, but you don’t have to.

NURTURED PROGRAM

How it works

Over the next 3 months you’ll have sacred, confidential sessions and a safe place to land when you need it most; me as your support person, your empathic ear and shoulder to lean on.

I’ll also be helping you to create some beautiful foundations in what I like to call your Fertility Mental Health First Aid Kit. You’ll gain clarity around jumbled thoughts, feel empowered to maintain a sense of self through your fertility journey and reconnect to the things that bring you joy and allow your life to flow.

WHAT’S INCLUDED

A pre-coaching questionnaire

These materials are sent via email prior to your first session. They will set the important foundations for our sessions together.

12 x Weekly Coaching sessions

Each session will occur weekly by either phone or zoom video call. Empathic mentoring and coaching support where we will work together.

Helpful resources

Workbooks, audios and recommended resources to help you develop your ‘mental well-being kit’.

Email support

Email access to me. Perfect for those times when you need some extra support or think of something you would like to run past me in between sessions.

DURING OUR TIME TOGETHER you will:

Develop your fertility mental health wellbeing first aid kit / internal resources so that you can navigate challenges, develop emotional stability, resilience and wellbeing.

Example topics we’ll cover together to develop your internal resources include:

• Learn positive strategies to cope with the anxieties, fears and distress that can deplete your self-esteem when you are struggling to conceive.
• Be equipped with the tools to help you navigate and cope with whatever lies ahead.
• Re-gain clarity and structure around areas of your life that can help you to feel empowered and more in control during a challenging time where many things are often outside your control.
• Feel empowered to step forth and tackle anything that comes your way trusting that you will know how to navigate challenges and thrive.

So that at the end of 3 months you feel calm and in control throughout and beyond your fertility journey and into motherhood.

If you are ready to embrace the next chapter with a clear mind, strong heart, and supportive network around you, NURTURED is for you.

Beautiful woman,

a fertility journey can feel intensely lonely like no one else understands what you are going through. I remember being there myself and despite an amazing network around me, I felt so alone. Pregnancy announcements and baby showers can cut deep and despite wanting to feel happy for those people, it is normal to also experience feelings of resentment followed by feelings of guilt for feeling that way.

There may be moments of wondering if you are undeserving in some way, self-judgement of yourself and criticism of your body that you may feel like life is letting you down. Hope may follow, excitement even, intertwined by grief and sadness.

The roller-coaster is unrelenting and the cycle is vicious. And it’s exhausting. I get you; I see you and you are not alone. I want you to know that you are already enough, right here, right now, in this moment, as you are.

NEXT STEPS

This is the kind of program that is an investment in you beacuse you are worth it. In my experience it’s truly priceless because feeling safe, seen, and supported, doesn’t have a dollar value.

Let's set up a time to chat in an introductory free session