One Step At a Time

Life after widowhood

  • Home
  • About and Media Kit
  • Contact Me
  • Infertility Survival Guide
  • Tap into Motherhood
  • Fertility
    • Dealing with Emotions
    • Fertility product
    • food
    • Humour
    • Parenting after infertility
    • infertility awareness
    • Natural resources
    • mothers after infertility
  • My Fertility Story
    • summary
    • IUI #1
    • IUI #2
    • Poetry
    • almost IVF
    • TTC#2
  • Pregnancy
    • bump
    • scans
    • complications
    • birth classes
    • birth
    • vitamins
    • spotting
  • Baby
    • baby shower
    • classes
    • breastfeeding
    • birth
    • baby products
    • travelling with baby
    • 6-12 months
    • 3-6 months
  • Toddler
    • development
    • sleep
    • yelling
    • play
    • Weaning
    • toys
    • products
    • tips
    • sick
    • swimming
    • potty training
    • tantrums
    • places in Jhb for kids
    • pets
    • education
  • Party
    • Winnie the Pooh
    • truck and construction
    • trains
    • hot wheels
    • space
  • Books
    • Self help
    • Fertility
    • Parenting
    • kid’s books
  • Coping With Kids
  • Shopping cart
  • FREE Stuff!

Why I love Circle and Bloom

July 4, 2010 by heatherss 11 Comments

I’ve always believed in the power of the mind. But how to harness this power and use it for our cycles so as to get the most out of the effect our mind can have on our ability to conceive? The answer, I was glad to find, is in the “Circle and Bloom” program which takes you day by day through your fertility for optimum results.

Joanne Verkuilen, the inventor of the mind-body audio program, is herself no stranger to infertility. I listened to her speak on Sarah Holland’s fertility online conference. She has PCOS. Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome is a hormone imbalance. It basically puts your ovaries into overdrive, producing many cysts (hence the “poly” in the name) instead of healthy eggs.

Her first pregnancy was easily achieved, but not her second one. She struggled to conceive, and even when she did, some of them were not viable and had to be terminated. Imagine her heart ache. She did eventually have her second child.

She developed the program to help a friend. It is a visualization program which helps you imagine your ovaries, fallopian tubes, uterus, cervix, hormones etc working in perfect harmony to bring about your baby.

She approached Doctor Bernie Seigel (author of “Love, Medicine and Miracles”) who had had some success with working with visualization and cancer patients. She asked him if the same concepts would work for infertility, and he said, of course!

Joanne has also compiled programs that will work with your IUI and IVF cycle. Here she spent time with doctors finding out exactly how the cycle would work and how to get us to visualize exactly the right thing on the right day. She says one of the important things she learned when making this product was that you should imagine absorbing just the right amount of the injections they give you, that the body needs. And of course, sending love to that connection between the sperm and egg.

Her recordings consist of three elements:

  1. Relaxation: we know how important this is. We need to reduce our stress levels. Here she uses deep breathing and works throughout your whole body to bring it to a place of progressive relaxation. Your mind becomes quiet and your body heavy.
  2. Visual component: here you imagine all your organs in perfect health. She goes into a lot of detail here (your ovaries are teaming with eggs, your fallopian tubes are soft , flexible and will allow passage easily, your uterus is in the right mode for that time of the month, your cervix is releasing just the right amount , consistency and ph level of mucus.
  3. Emotional component: Here she gives exercises that will help you deal with your own issues. She calls them “sign posts” in that they will help direct you to your problem areas. In the freebie download she describes taking all your anxiety and wrapping it up in a balloon and letting it go. I found this very helpful. Of course EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) is also a very effective tool for dealing with negative emotions. For more information on EFT go here: http://healwithheather.com/eft.htm  and for the points here: http://healwithheather.com/eftpts.pdf)

 

Anyway, this program has personal significance for me as I used it on the days leading up to my fertility treatment. It helped with the anxiety but also helped with producing excellent follicules and uterine lining. My doctor was very impressed.  It just shows you the power of the mind!

Circle and Bloom can be found here: http://goo.gl/CiED

You can also watch me talk about this experience on you tube here:

Why I love Circle and Bloom

Related Posts via Categories

  • Fertility at 40 Plus Telesummit
  • Fertility Focus Telesummit March 2015
  • Fertility Binder
  • Fertility Yoga
  • Book Review: The Fertile Kitchen Cookbook
  • How to get through the hard times of infertility with Tertia
  • Fertility App pinpoints best times to conceive
  • Mixed Beans Vegetable Lunch
  • Fertility and Reflexology
  • Mothers After Infertility or Loss: Sian’s Story: Don’t Limit Your Miracle!

Share this post:

Share on X (Twitter)Share on FacebookShare on LinkedInShare on Email

Comments

comments

Filed Under: Fertility, Fertility product Tagged With: circle and bloom, fertility products, mind body and fertility

Comments

  1. Stacy H. says

    July 4, 2010 at 1:26 pm

    Ooohh, I am soo going to have to look at these sites!! I’ve really been focusing on positive affirmations since Jan. Thanks for sharing!!

    Reply
  2. Child's Pose Fertility says

    July 5, 2010 at 2:37 am

    Sounds great! There is no questions about the link between Mind and Body, and there is beginning to be empirical evidence that shows how tapping into this this link can benefit couples who are trying to get pregant. I have developed a Yoga for Fertility program that involves specifically designed Yoga postures, breathing, visualizations and deep relaxation, and am having great success with this. I offer workshops and private sessions in Montreal, Canada. For more information, please do not hesitate to get in touch with me at tashalackman@videotron.ca.

    Reply
  3. Heather Step says

    July 22, 2010 at 6:01 pm

    Thanks Stacy!
    Thanks child’s pose fertility!
    And thanks force factor …
    if you guys are interested in more info from me go to http://healwithheather.com/getpregnant.htm for my surviving infertility series.

    Reply
  4. desk Brisbane says

    September 7, 2010 at 8:06 pm

    Cool post thanks, needed some more images maybe.

    Reply
  5. Heather Step says

    September 8, 2010 at 6:32 pm

    Have added an image! thanks for the suggestion Brisbane.. 🙂

    Reply
  6. hair relaxer says

    September 12, 2010 at 9:28 pm

    A topic close to my heart thanks, i’ve been wondering about this for a while.

    Reply
  7. office furniture says

    September 26, 2010 at 6:42 pm

    I liked reading this, You must have a Facebook group for this site?

    Reply
  8. Heather Step says

    September 26, 2010 at 7:11 pm

    I actually don’t yet…

    Reply
  9. property management vancouver says

    October 13, 2010 at 5:24 pm

    I enjoyed reading this, emailing this to my mates now.

    Reply
  10. computer lincoln says

    December 23, 2010 at 7:23 pm

    Where do you come up with this? Just saying you are very imaginative. Be sure to keep writing more great articles like this one.

    Reply
  11. power balance wristbands says

    December 31, 2010 at 8:53 pm

    What youre saying is completely true. I hope to develop a similar writing style to you one day.

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.

about-graphic

Subscribe to our Newsletter and get a free printable of the alphabet PLUS my best blog posts.

Follow on Bloglovin’

Follow on Bloglovin

Popular Posts

  • Latest
  • Comments
  • A Trip to Polokwane A Trip to Polokwane
  • Our trip to the USA Our trip to the USA
  • Putting down roots and getting a cat Putting down roots and getting a cat
  • New beginnings and rays of light New beginnings and rays of light
  • My ablation operation My ablation operation
  • Today Week Month All
  • Baby Steps Baby Steps
  • Five Ways Your Toddler Thinks Differently To You Five Ways Your Toddler Thinks Differently To You
  • Oh, The Things I Can Do With Mom’s Plastic Containers Oh, The Things I Can Do With Mom's Plastic Containers
  • What to Put in Your Kid’s Lunch Box What to Put in Your Kid's Lunch Box
  • Infertility’s Survivor Guilt Infertility's Survivor Guilt
Ajax spinner

If you’re serious about getting pregnant…

Mamahood Gauteng Facebook Group

mamahood

My Other Blog

Picture1
malware removal and website security

Copyright © 2025 · Lifestyle Pro Child Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in