Mind-Body Wellness
Learn about holistic practices, supports, and resources that can positively impact your fertility and overall wellness.
Mindfulness during Family Building Support Group
This 60-minute mindfulness exploration is for anyone navigating a family building journey who would like to learn skills and strategies that will be supportive for the stressors they may encounter. Practices may include guided meditation, affirmations, visualizations, or gentle movement. Participants are encouraged to have a journal or something similar for writing.
As of January 2025, this group will move to the 1st Monday of each month from 7-8p EST.
Word Up!
by Kate Weldon LeBlanc I resisted playing Wordle. I really did. It started with the mysterious social media posts. These green/yellow/grey squares. Captions like Wordle 157 3/6. At first, I was confused, then mildly curious, then mildly annoyed. What IS this...
How to Naturally Boost Sperm Health
Guest Post by Liane Moccia, RH (AHG) A 2017 paper that reported a significant decline in sperm parameters brought increased attention to male fertility. However, in reality, this isn’t new. Sperm counts have been declining for decades. To better understand...
“What else can I do to increase my chances of getting pregnant?”
Guest Post by Carla DiGirolamo, MD As a fertility doctor, “Is there anything else I can be doing to increase my chances of getting pregnant?” is one of the most common questions my patients ask, as we are navigating their journey to parenthood. We will often...
How Creativity Can Instill Hope and Healing
Guest Post by Elena Clamen, LMHC There can be so much uncertainty, disappointment and waiting while on an infertility journey. Some of the feelings may include: frustration, grief, loss, anger, sadness, shame, and isolation. Anyone who has experienced...
Fertility Acupuncture for Mind-Body Healing
Guest post by Heather Smidt Family building through assisted reproductive technology (ART) can be overwhelming for both your body and mind. Often, it might feel like there is no relief, and the stress can seem like it just keeps increasing at every new...
Top 6 Mind/Body Practices for Fertility
Guest post by Kerry Hinds Stress and infertility go hand in hand. It’s hard to get around that. However, just because you’re experiencing stress, doesn’t mean you can’t find ways to lessen its impact on your mind and body. Below you’ll find 6 mind/body...
How to Naturally Boost Your Reproductive Health
By Liane Moccia Deciding to start a family is a beautiful and exciting time. But for many of us, we soon realize it is not going to be so simple. Depending on your personal journey, you may feel like what should happen so easily and naturally has turned into...
Is a peer support group right for me?
By RESOLVE New England At RESOLVE New England (RNE), we offer a variety of Peer Support Groups, led by people who understand the unique challenges and stresses of dealing with infertility and the many varied paths to family building. All of our Peer Group...
Kicking the Sh*t out of Option B
By Ellen S. Glazer For members of the RESOLVE New England community who didn’t catch it, the title of this blog is a “revised” quote from Sheryl Sandberg’s moving graduation speech at the University of California at Berkeley in May. Speaking of her profound...
Top 10 Things You Can Do to Boost Your Fertility NOW!
By Jessica L. Molleur In the recent news, there has been a lot of conflicting information on the role of diet, exercise, stress, and fertility treatments for patients trying to conceive. Eat ice cream, don’t eat ice cream. Exercise more, exercise less. The...
The Very Human You
Someone recently asked me why I’m passionate about offering Reiki to women struggling with fertility. Here is my answer: at some point, you have been poked and prodded, had your blood drawn, absorbed statistics, and spoken clinically of your sex life enough...
Complementary Treatment: Ancient Techniques for Fertility
From culture to culture for three thousand years shamans and midwives across the planet have initiated women in healing the most sacred parts of their bodies using yoni vaginal steam baths. The name for the female genitalia in Sanskrit is yoni … bajos in...