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Alexia has helped me in spades to overcome my tokophobia.

I didn't realize when I started working with her just how much my fear of pregnancy and childbirth were not just affecting my relationship with myself, my body, and my husband, but also my relationship to life. I was becoming smaller and smaller every day, retracting from all facets of my life, allowing fear to consume me and keeping me from moving forward.

Alexia helped me see how it all is connected and through my work with her, she has created an upward spiral in my energy and love for life. She works with the shadowed underbelly of your deepest fears; or rather, she makes the fears work for you by showing you what they are trying to teach you. She has figured out that using the opposite of each of these fears, dissolves them and neutralizes their behavior in your head.

Her head trash clearance method has helped me deeply face down these demons and has strengthened me to my core, causing me to go to bed every night excited to wake up in the morning and face whatever comes my way: pregnancy or otherwise.

Very glad that I worked with her and she comes with my highest recommendation!

Life-transforming! ☆☆☆☆☆

Hand on my heart, this podcast changed the course of my life! I’m eternally grateful to Alexia for the incredible work that she does, helping women bust their birth fears and normalising the experience of pregnancy.

Through this podcast I discovered Alexia’s Tokophobia Support course which allowed me overcome my extreme fear of birth in 3 weeks!

As a result, I’m a happier, stronger, calmer and more resilient woman:)

Whether you’re planning to get pregnant or are an expecting/new mum, you have to drink from this source of inspiration, enlightenment and wisdom!

Every time I used to think about being pregnant, I’d have a panic attack. Now I can visualize it without a physical, visceral reaction.

I was so tokophobic that my husband and I were trying to pursue adoption, which unfortunately is a bit of a nightmare in America. Thousands of dollars later we had nothing to show but heartbreak and resentment, and abandoned that route. Seeing my husband, whom I love dearly, struggle to grapple with the possibility of never being a father made me realize I had to address my fears, or risk missing out on an amazing opportunity to be parents together.

So many resources address this by telling you all the worst things that can happen. This is not helpful for me! I LIVE in that space – I really didn’t need more fear or horror stories or worst-case scenarios. I love that your approach is super positive without being unrealistic.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

I am now open and receptive to the possibility of carrying our child – and dare I say, a tiny itty bit excited at the prospect of welcoming our child into the world someday.

I was crippled over tokophobia. It had hijacked my goals in life, which had been to try to become a parent someday. I had had it for years since preadolescence, ever since I had learned about where babies come from. I wanted to be ready for when the time came to start a family someday.

I would absolutely recommend Alexia’s program to other women with tokophobia; if it can help alleviate my deeply-rooted fears with pregnancy, it could certainly help someone else! I feel less freaked out by pregnancy and definitely acknowledge this is a natural process that our bodies are well conditioned and equipped to do which I hadn’t felt before.

I think that anyone with specific fears that hinder them from living their lives to their fullest potential can benefit from this program. They need to know that it is possible to face your fears head-on, neutralize them and obliterate them. I honestly couldn’t believe it!

I figured I would need months or years to undo these deep-seated fears of mine, but in applying Alexia’s techniques that was not my case at all. I love the videos, materials, and podcasts!

They are a brilliant and helpful resource which you can access anytime and anywhere. The group calls were flexible and easy and the website is a treasure trove of information and extremely helpful in working to overcome my fears. I still use the podcasts and browse the website for videos though whenever I need touch-ups.

From visceral, deep-rooted fear to elation!

It seems impossible to even imagine that I used to be completely engulfed by tokophobia – an extreme fear of birthing – that would cause me to get nauseous, tighten up and cry when watching even a short clip of another woman having a baby, let alone the very idea of going into labour myself. Neither rationalising my phobia nor educating myself about the birthing process would lessen tokophobia’s grip. I felt doomed, helpless and ashamed of being this way until taking part in Alexia Leachman’s Tokophobia Webinar gave me hope.

Fast forward less than a week, and I was enrolled in her group course “Tokophobia Support” which gave me access to excellent online resources, as well as, most importantly, weekly group calls and continuous guidance and encouragement from Alexia.

I dived into very challenging yet satisfying work, desperate for at least some respite from being tokophobic. The pre-recorded clearance meditations shook me to the depth of my being, left me soaked in tears and absolutely exhausted as the toxic emotions were leaving my body, yet brought immediate relief and clarity. I began to unravel the tight knot of traumas, fears and beliefs that I had about birth and was able to create my own meditations to tackle the above one by one. Incredibly,

I started to get a little buzz out of those sessions that would then lighten me up, energise me and give me a completely new perspective on some very touchy subjects.

Three weeks in and I was clear of tokophobia! Even during the first week of coaching, I was able to walk through a maternity clothing shop without holding my breath, come to a prenatal yoga class and begin to embrace the changes happening to my over-12-weeks pregnant body. My whole experience shifted dramatically toward genuine curiosity, gratitude and elation!

I now feel that I am the mother my baby needs me to be – strong, resilient, positive and, above all, caring and loving. Who would have thought that I could feel genuinely excited about the Big Day and look forward to bringing my sweet little baby into the world?!

Thank you from the bottom of my heart, Alexia!

Since getting married recently I have been in a real dilemma about having children due to the terror I felt around pregnancy and childbirth which I’ve had for as long as I can remember.

Before working with Alexia I always felt that I just didn’t like children but as my husband was really keen to start a family I was trying to uncover whether I really didn’t want a family or if this was just my fear talking. I’ve always felt too embarrassed to tell anyone about this as it made me feel stupid, as if there was something wrong with me.

I felt so alone with this fear on top of the decision I had to make and time ticking by so when I came across Alexia’s book ‘Fearless Birthing’ and her podcasts I felt like I’d finally found someone who understood exactly what was in my head. I decided to work with Alexia because I felt like I wouldn’t be seen as crazy, that she understood tokophobia – it was as if bits of her book were written about me!

Having completed the Tokophobia program I finally feel as if I am not alone. The group support from the others made me feel so much better, just hearing that there were others who shared and understood my fears was invaluable.

I have to admit, that being an extremely logical, sceptical person, I was very hesitant to sign up to the course and even when practising the techniques that Alexia shares, I really could not understand how they were working, only that they did work to my amazement. I would never have advocated this type of approach before trying it myself but I have to admit I was wrong. Although I am still not pregnant and have not quite reached the last hurdle yet of overcoming my phobia of childbirth itself, I am so much further along the road than I was when I started 4 weeks ago.

Given that I have had this my whole life and been in therapy for a lot longer than 4 weeks in the past I am extremely happy with my progress so far (as is my husband who says it’s the best money we have ever spent. He has noticed a visible difference in me, I’m so much calmer and sleeping better as a result of the work so far).

This is because the techniques Alexia shares have stopped my head churning so much. I used to waken in the middle of the night with panic attacks due to how overwhelmed I felt thinking about having children. I can confirm that I have not felt like this since starting the program which is a huge relief to me.

There are so many people online offering ‘magical cures’ and it’s hard to know who to believe. All I can tell you is that I am a psychotherapist and am used to working with people with phobias in a completely different way to Alexia so I took a chance on this program but I am so, so glad I did.

Alexia is the most genuine, interested and helpful therapist and coach because she cuts right to the heart of the issue to get the best results.

I would have no hesitation in recommending this course if you are willing to follow the program and put in the work, Alexia will be there to support and offer excellent, relevant guidance throughout.

I very much appreciated her quick responses as I think working solely online, can sometimes leave you feeling a little disconnected, however I felt as if I knew Alexia very quickly as she was always on hand to offer encouragement and suggestions from her vast knowledge of overcoming Tokophobia.

It may seem like a big investment but it’s actually very reasonable in terms of how much you can spend on therapy over the course of months or years and I can’t put a price on the peace of mind I have gained and the sense of mastery over something I initially thought was incurable.

As a true sceptic, and someone with the most overwhelming fear of pregnancy and birth, this is most certainly money well spent.

[UPDATE: Heather decided to try for a baby 3 months later, and was pregnant 7 months later. She’s about to give birth to her second baby]

I have known for a long time that I had tokophobia. I knew I wanted a family but couldn’t think about being pregnant without having strong anxiety and panic attacks. I was petrified of being pregnant. I can only describe it as a crazy hurricane in my head whenever I thought about pregnancy.

I did a lot of research and there is not a lot of information about treatment options on the NHS websites. I found Alexia’s website and did a lot of reading here, joined the Facebook group and booked a call with Alexia. It was lovely to chat with her, she really understood what I was saying and I thought this really is worth a go!

I found it really easy and lovely to work with Alexia and we uncovered things I was anxious about that I could have never thought I would be anxious about. I found the methods really easy to use, and Alexia was really helpful in guiding me with this.

I noticed I was starting to feel calmer and more relaxed when thinking about pregnancy.

The craziness has gone and I feel calm. I feel excited now to think about my future with a family and even excited to be trying for a pregnancy. I found the resources on the website really helpful and the head trash clearance technique easy to follow.

I am really glad I started to work with Alexia, I feel in such a better place now.

I had tokophobia all my life and didn’t realize how bad it was until I got pregnant. I couldn’t sleep and I couldn’t eat and life felt overwhelming and miserable. By the time I was in my second trimester my fears took control and ran the show. I had gigantic fears surrounding labor and knew I had to do something about it before I went into labor.

I don’t know what I would have done without Alexia’s program!

Before doing it, I dreaded my pregnancy and the day of labor every day. It felt like such an overwhelming burden and there were so many things I had no clue about because it was my first pregnancy.

After Alexia’s program my whole world went from total dread to empowerment and JOY! I honestly can’t believe it! I am actually enjoying being pregnant and thanks to Alexia’s research and tools I have a thorough birth plan and all the information I could need at my fingertips!

By the time I was done with the program I was in control of my fears instead of my fears taking control over me. I feel so empowered by Alexia’s work, she gave me the tools I needed to face my fears head on and the support I also needed to really get there, I couldn’t have faced that intensity alone.

Alexia had every tool I needed to help me clear my fears and now I can actually enjoy my pregnancy instead of dreading it every day like I was! This program truly delivers and my biggest regret is not doing this work sooner. I wish I had cleared my fears with Alexia before I got pregnant! I am astounded by how deeply her work has touched my life and cleared my fears. I don͛’t know what I would have done without this.

I am amazed at the resources Alexia provides; it’s like she did all the research I don’t have time to do cuz I’m pregnant and has it all there ready for me. If you have fears around pregnancy don’t run away!