The Carrots We Want and The Sticks We Need
One of the things I’ve learned as a therapist is that most of us spend the prime of our lives without the benefit of having
If you are experiencing difficulties getting pregnant for any reason – I can help!
Infertility is a strange thing!
Tackling it requires courage and a strong will to face into the unknown. What carries you forward through constant setbacks is a deep longing for a baby of your own, an unquenchable desire that burns inside you like a fire. Sometimes it’s the only thing keeping you going.
Infertility is a roller-coaster ride of emotions, it often can’t be fully explained, and that can be incredibly frustrating. Constant monthly reminders of failure can destroy your confidence, test your resilience, and shake the very foundations of your relationship.
The ordeal may seem chaotic and unfair, but it is unfolding for you in this way for a reason. The key to your success is buried within the problem itself, and finding this key is what will set you free.
Understanding this will put you back in control of your own destiny and allow the real journey to begin!
The child you long to create in your body demands total commitment. Summon the courage to face your problems, and life will show you the way!
I’m Brendan O’Brien NT MSc, the Natural Fertility Consultant. I hold a Master’s Degree in the Science of Personalised Nutrition, and a Practice Diploma in Nutritional Therapy.
I am the author of Getting Pregnant When The Body Says No (How Women Can Overcome Infertility)
I also teach nutrition and supervise clinical training at the International Institute of Nutrition & Health, and am trained in Functional Endocrinology and Functional Immunology.
I am a registered Therapist with my governing body the Nutritional Therapists Of Ireland for whom I also serve as company director in a voluntary role.
The prospect of not being able to have my own children would have broken something in me, and so I use my skills to help others avoid that fate if at all possible!
My mission in life is to help people like you overcome difficult fertility challenges so you can have a healthy baby of your own!
For 15 years it’s been my profound privilege to work with men and women going through their own private hell struggling to start a family. To make this process easier I created a program called Foundations of Fertility which steps you through a process of optimising your body for successful conception using natural means – no matter what the underlying issue is.
Many of my clients are dealing with complex issues, but the pathway I offer has high success rates compared to relying solely on the medical route.
Helping you unlock the puzzle of infertility – one story at a time!
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When your pathway to parenthood is blocked by some force,
and what should have been easy is now grounds for divorce.
When nothing you’ve tried is working at all,
despite several blind alleys you’ve hit a big wall,
and you can’t tell your friend’s coz they won’t understand
– yet the whole world expects you to produce on demand!
But you can’t make it happen no matter how hard you try,
and the weeks turn to months and the years just slip by.
Then your mind starts to wander and your heart starts to doubt –
will there’ll ever be an answer, is there really no way out?
Did I miss some big signpost, was I just not tuned in,
am I bearing the burden of some previous sin?
When those fears start to choke you hang on for the ride,
tap into your spirit, dig deep down inside.
It takes courage to change when you don’t know the way,
to ask someone for help when you don’t know what to say.
This journey of life we can’t travel alone,
we depend on each other to find our way home.
So many have found their way back from despair
with their lessons of triumph now borne on the air.
The greatest of burdens they say is self-doubt –
when you face it and crush it that’s when dreams come about.
Remember the truth – you’re a miracle too,
what one can accomplish another can do.
No outcome is certain so place all your bets –
for the worst sin of all is to die with regrets!
Brendan O’Brien 29-04-2016
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