You are probably reading this book because you made a decision to have a baby and it is taking more time than you anticipated.
This book is written for you—to guide you on your journey, to support your emotional health, and to help you achieve your goal of having a baby. This book is a result of my personal struggle with infertility, my professional experience as a psychiatrist and a psychotherapist helping women and their partners through infertility, and a review of the current scientific research on the relationship between emotional health and fertility. Infertility is challenging, and my goal is to provide you with practical guidance to help you through this time.
The stress of infertility can get in the way of persisting with trying to conceive and with the ability to make good decisions about how to proceed with trying naturally, infertility workup, and infertility treatments. Research evidence shows that lowering stress through mind body techniques and psychological treatment can improve mental wellbeing and boost the chances of becoming pregnant. In addition, working on managing stress can help women feel empowered and more in control of the process of infertility treatment. Mind Body Fertility: Emotional Skills of Overcoming Infertility aims to help women be well, emotionally balanced, and even happy despite infertility. Beata Bliss Lewis, MD is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist trained at NYU, Columbia University and Harvard Medical School, who has personal experience of infertility, as well as a clinical practice of working with women with infertility in New York City and Brooklyn. Dr. Lewis’ websites www.beatalewismd.com and www.mindbodyfertilityprogram.com provide additional information and resources.
This book is written for you—to guide you on your journey, to support your emotional health, and to help you achieve your goal of having a baby. This book is a result of my personal struggle with infertility, my professional experience as a psychiatrist and a psychotherapist helping women and their partners through infertility, and a review of the current scientific research on the relationship between emotional health and fertility. Infertility is challenging, and my goal is to provide you with practical guidance to help you through this time.
The stress of infertility can get in the way of persisting with trying to conceive and with the ability to make good decisions about how to proceed with trying naturally, infertility workup, and infertility treatments. Research evidence shows that lowering stress through mind body techniques and psychological treatment can improve mental wellbeing and boost the chances of becoming pregnant. In addition, working on managing stress can help women feel empowered and more in control of the process of infertility treatment. Mind Body Fertility: Emotional Skills of Overcoming Infertility aims to help women be well, emotionally balanced, and even happy despite infertility. Beata Bliss Lewis, MD is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist trained at NYU, Columbia University and Harvard Medical School, who has personal experience of infertility, as well as a clinical practice of working with women with infertility in New York City and Brooklyn. Dr. Lewis’ websites www.beatalewismd.com and www.mindbodyfertilityprogram.com provide additional information and resources.
