Surrender To Fear Around Fertility - by Ashleigh Jackson

COURSE

Surrender To Fear Around Fertility

With Ashleigh Jackson

When trying to conceive, we are overwhelmed by books, websites, and protocols. The process can become stressful and create internal chaos. In this 10 day course you will be offered a number of coping techniques and insight on how to calm the nervous system when feeling overwhelmed about fertility. You will learn the numerous benefits of offering yourself mantras and how to surrender control over outcomes. You will also learn to become open to your fears and less controlled by them. Over the next 10 days, allow yourself to be nurtured and supported as you face stress associated with trying to conceive.


Meet your Teacher

Ashleigh Grooms is a holistic licensed psychotherapist, an experienced trauma therapist and yoga instructor in private practice in Florida. Her intention is to bring more light and love to the world's suffering, and deeply believes in the transformative experience meditation provides. In 2014, Asheigh started trying to conceive but was met with a host of fertility challenges. Thankfully, she was connected to some deeply supportive souls and her spiritual process supported her through the heartache. Ashleigh created this course for women who are willing to consider a path through fertility with self compassion, mindfulness and acceptance. Although she is a psychotherapist, this course draws on many mindfulness practices.

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10 Days

3.2k students

4.8 stars

11 min / day

Relationships

English


Lesson 1

Intention Setting

Today's lesson is all about the powerful practice of Intention Setting. First, we get clear about why you want to have a baby. The reasons might seem very obvious, but today we will explore some of the subtleties and find ways to allow them to filter into other areas of your life.

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Lesson 2

Understanding The Depths Of Fear

Drawing on mindfulness techniques around fear and longing, we will come to recognise what you most fear in terms of becoming (or not becoming) a parent. The key intention is to consider releasing the fears that may be holding you back. Together, we will do a gentle meditation that invites you to acknowledge your fears and breathe with them.

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Lesson 3

Control Patterns

In today's lesson we will explore the psychological patterning of control, why we do it (ie. to create safety in situations that feel unsafe), and how to shift behaivoural patterns that may not be benefiting us. This lesson will give us practical steps to pause and breathe when feeling the patterning of control, offering us ways to find a sense of release.

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Lesson 4

Embracing The Mystery

There is no doubt that fertility is a deeply mysterious process. Today we will talk about the mystery behind fertility and sit in awe of these processes. This lesson explores how we can embrace the unknown; turning towards the mystery instead of away from it.

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Lesson 5

Surrender

Letting go allows us to be free. When we can acknowledge our biggest fears and surrender to them, we can better navigate important life choices. In this lesson, we will learn about the art of surrender and how to apply it to the most tender of fertility situations. Surrendering is a way to let go and relax our entire bodies.

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Lesson 6

Connecting With Community

Today we connect to the external community of all the women facing similar struggles. Together, we are powerful, we are strong, we lean on each other. In community we are held and supported. This lesson invites us to explore who the 'support people' are in our lives and how we can open up to receiving support in the ways we need it most. Many people that love us don’t know what to say or how to say it. Today's meditation practice helps us allow their support.

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Lesson 7

Befriending Your Body

In today's lesson we talk about the importance of being “friends” with the body as you journey through the fertility process. Often in this process, the mind wants one thing and the body feels as thought it isn’t “complying.” This lesson teaches us how the mind and body can work as a team rather than adversaries. Through a powerful guided imagery meditation you’ll be asked to offer kindness and affirmations to your body even when it isn’t conceiving on your time schedule.

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Lesson 8

Mastering Coping Statements (Or Mantras) To Support You

The journey can be long, it can be painful. We know this. Taking care of yourself is an important piece to this journey. This lesson invites you to master coping statements and mantras to support you day by day in your fertility journey. You will be asked "what do I need to remember the most as I wait"? You will be guided through this process with a brief meditation and then asked to write down some words you can use daily and weekly to support yourself.

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Lesson 9

Boundaries, Social Pressure & Self Care

When people in our lives become pregnant, there is often expectation of celebration and excitement. For those of us struggling to become pregnant, we may have challenges connecting with joy. In today's lesson we learn to consider our own limitations and release our guilt associated with taking care of ourselves socially. You will also be guided on how to handle loved ones who may not understand our pain.

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Lesson 10

Conceiving More Than You Bargained For

This course is different from many fertility resources because it’s more about you than anything else. However your fertility journey goes, you will need resources to deal with stress, internal and external pressure, and the inner controller. This final lesson combines all that we’ve learned in the course so far and connect you back to your infinite worthiness. This lesson is filled with loving kindness and guided imagery that seeks to connect you back to your larger purpose and empower you in a profound way.

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Ask your teacher

This course includes 42 community questions and 6 audio replies from Ashleigh Jackson. The community classroom and teacher audio replies are only available via the app.

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Recent Reviews

Josie

July 28, 2025

Such a wonderful course, it felt safe an accessible for me and really helped calm me through some difficult times. Balm for the soul while navigating a difficult medical system.

Fiona

April 16, 2025

Great course, touches on a lot of the very real emotions in the fertility journey! Helpful and way to use tools were gifted to help you learn your emotional state. Sounded authentic too, someone else who had been through the fertility journey.

Lydia

January 24, 2025

Wonderful course that connects to you rather than the promise and need to conceive. Very nourishing and peaceful. Just what I needed.

Airiel

January 17, 2025

What a voice! One of the most soothing and thoughtful guides I’ve found on Insight Timer✨

Rukhs

August 13, 2024

Thank you for this powerful course, it really resonates and helped a lot

Ella

April 17, 2024

Wow, amazing 10 days and so insightful. I had to stop myself from doing it all in one go! Big thank you Ashleigh ❤️

Morgan

February 8, 2024

Personally did not find this to be helpful at all. Maybe it’s because my mind is just so unraveled and feels far past being able to handle more talk or conversation about the subject, but I just felt like these lessons were more painful reiterations of things I’ve already heard or been told to do.

Caitlin

September 27, 2023

Excellent! Examining my fears and working on letting go of control and surrendering is really hard for me but so important. I loved your gentle encouragement and learned something I will keep with me from every session. I'm typically not one to take a course again, but I think I will with this one!

Laura

April 24, 2023

This course has made a significant difference for me on my fertility journey. I felt heard. I felt like I had tools to cope. Thank you and I hope you will share more in the future.

Ariel

March 3, 2023

This course was exactly what I needed to help me through the two week wait 🤍

Marit

February 1, 2023

Thank you! Altho I am not trying to conceive yet, I was looking for courses I could maybe do as preparation and came across this one. I was so interested that I figured why not listen already. I do have some friends around me who are actively trying and I think its helpful to get into some themes beforehand too bc you just never know 💚 My little brother was born trough ivf too

Liz

January 5, 2023

I learned so much from this course. There is so much cross over with a mindbody method I’ve been using that says that chronic pain is caused by repressed emotions and it feels like the same mechanism is at play with some kinds of infertility. This was a huge aha moment for me! Journaling about my fears around being a parent was a big turning point for me in my life and I’m so grateful that this course is available here. Thank you!!

Clarissa

October 20, 2022

Um bálsamo para a alma de quem passa pela jornada da fertilidade. Gratidão pelo curso, me ajudou muito

Brittney

August 11, 2022

Releasing and confronting my fears opened up so much love and patience that I needed. Thank you,❤️

Sarah

June 13, 2022

This was such a wonderful course. Gave me peace each day, and tools that I’ll definitely continue to use. Thank you!

Annette

October 6, 2021

This was very much needed as my fertility window is about to close. I have been dreaming of having twins for a year now and I am 47 years young. I feel like I'm in my mid thirties after meditating for 604 days and practicing yoga on and off the mat. I believe it's meant to be than it will be achieved. My daughter had a child as a teen mom that I help raise for the last six years and now they have their own home and expecting a new baby. I absolutely love being a grandparent, it's so much easier than being a parent. My hormones have me upset with an empty nest. I cry like a baby with a negative pregnancy test or my period every month for a year. My husband says we are too old for fertility treatments and agreed on not using birth control with a 1-3% chance (ImPossible) 🙏 I have taken Cassava supplements, preconception vitamins and prenatal vitamins for the last few months. Now I am just focusing on staying hydrated with 11 ounces of water seven times a day with daily exercise because it's good for my health. My obsession with being fertile has not been serving me so I'm shifting my focus on positive outcomes verses positive test results.

Bess

June 14, 2021

Such a beautiful course, thank you. A healing balm in what can be such a difficult journey. I found the practical elements so helpful and wrote notes from each session that I refer back to. I can’t thank you enough. ❤️

Nancy

March 18, 2021

Wonderful, soothing course with practical visual imagery and mantras to help reframe the fertility journey. Ashleigh acknowledges the unique struggles of fertility, while at the same time offering a new perspective on how to use this time with less self-imposed suffering. Highly recommend.

Iris

March 3, 2021

Beautiful course! Thank you!❤️✨🙏🏼

Kim

January 15, 2021

Very positive course, giving excellent thoughts for reflection and processing. Very calm, clear guide.

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