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How to clear your fears yourself
If you’re scared of pregnancy or birth, here are some options for you if you’d like to try and deal with your fears yourself. I developed the Head…
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Your fears are not what you think they are
Most people think that when you have fears around pregnancy and birth that your fears are related to pregnancy and birth. But the truth is that they’re not.…
Planning pregnancy
Clearing her tokophobia fears. Becky’s story
By Alexia Leachman, founder of Fear Free Childbirth. Alexia healed her own tokophobia and developed the method she used to do it – and has helped women clear theirs…
Mindset
Clearing fears. Amber’s story
Experiencing fear around pregnancy or birth is pretty normal, around 80% of women experience some level of fear. But fears vary; some are low level fears which are…
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Does your anxiety comes from your in-utero experience?
I recently stumbled on a past trauma that proved to be the key to a lot of the anxieties I’ve wrestled with as an adult. As someone who…
Mindset
Do you have a fear of uncertainty?
A fear of uncertainty comes up a lot in my work with my clients. This is because there is so much potential for uncertainty on the journey to…
Pregnancy
Pregnancy anxiety and COVID
Pregnancy anxiety and COVID is something we need to be paying more attention to. Pregnancy is a time where many women experience increased anxiety, but now that COVID…
Tokophobia
Should I wait until I’m pregnant to address my fears?
A common question I get from those who suffer with strong fears or tokophobia is this: should I wait until I’m pregnant to address my fears? My answer…
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When the thought of losing control terrifies you
The idea of losing control is terrifying for many. Deep down we believe that we need to be in control to survive so when our sense of control…
Tokophobia
Hate the thought of something growing inside?
By Alexia Leachman, founder of Fear Free Childbirth. Alexia healed her own tokophobia and developed the method she used to do it – and has helped women clear theirs…