Cecilia and Patricia, how did they carry out the fertility workshops?
We are two psychologists with a cognitive behavioral orientation, who for many years have dedicated ourselves to the clinical care of patients with anxiety and depression, and in recent years we have begun to focus our training on the area of fertility. This concern arose after observing that many patients and people close to us began to go through these conflicts without tools to face them and without finding spaces that contain them and help elaborate the entire process.
In this way, we began to give group workshops aimed at women who are experiencing difficulties in reproduction and need support, containment and improve their emotional state.
We decided to call it “fertility wellness” to focus on what I have and can do and not what I feel is “failing” or not being able to achieve. We use a salugenic approach, that is, aimed at promoting health, promoting care and well-being and developing skills to better face the process.
What aspects do they emphasize the most?
Reproductive difficulties burst into life unexpectedly and abruptly. When the process to achieve pregnancy becomes difficult, the different areas of life begin to be affected and emotions are experienced that can be overwhelming: sadness, anguish, fear, hopelessness.
Coming across words like infertility usually generates a crisis and in some cases they can feel that infertility is taking over their entire life, as if it were taking over different areas and coloring them with pain and bitterness.
In the workshops we work on different topics such as the emotional impact generated by reproductive difficulties, duels that are going through, relationship and communication with the doctor and with the couple (if any). We practice Acceptance, the development of healthy habits and relaxation techniques.
What goals do you have with your workshops?
In our workshops of five meetings, which can be online or face-to-face in CABA, the consultants report that the space allows them to connect with people who are experiencing similar situations, feel understood and supported, validating and accepting what they feel. They also mention that they are strengthened to continue on the path, with more clarity and information to make more conscious decisions. It helps them resume an active role, albeit painful and difficult, on the road ahead.
These workshops are designed to help you go through this journey with more tools and developing coping resources that allow you to improve your quality of life and physical, mental and emotional well-being. Among its objectives are:
- Develop resources to face the process
- Learn to recognize emotions and needs at each stage of the process
- Learn relaxation techniques and reduce stress and anxiety
- Reduce feelings of uncertainty and discomfort
- Develop healthy habits that increase the feeling of well-being
- Reduce feelings of loneliness and isolation
Contact information:
Mail: [email protected]
Instagram: @wellbeinginfertility
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