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This 30 minute support session will address the despair that often accompanies the struggle to fulfill one’s most natural biological desire – having a child.

Beth Jaeger-Skigen, a licensed psychotherapist with over twenty years of clinical experience, will take you on a practical journey through exploring loss and hope to help you navigate how to relate to yourself, friends, family and co-workers during this challenging and delicate time.  Beth has deep empathy for the grief, isolation, despair, lows and highs that infertility often brings.

Our desire is that this lecture will provide you some tools to assist with regeneration of positive feelings and hope.

This webinar builds on Grieving and Growing Part I to help you identify your feelings and options and begin to build a clear picture of your fertility plan – even admist grief. Beth Jaerger-Skigen, a licensed psychotherapist, guides you towards yourself for an honest and compassionate assessment of your personal and practical resources to help you effectively continue your fertility journey.

Even in the most loving relationships, unhealthy patterns of behavior may emerge during infertility. One or both partners are often depressed, and they can move in a downward spiral toward isolation and despair.

Couples say they feel socially isolated and the pressure to conceive inevitably affects the partnership. One partner can blame the other, sex becomes mechanical and communication can break down.

Despite these difficult circumstances, there are concrete things that can be done to help relationships flourish. In this webinar, Beth Jaeger-Skigen will assist you gently some advice and guidance to regain intimacy during infertility.