Hello everyone. I have been absent for a few weeks from the forum. I think I went too fast and tried to get everything done as quick as I could....didn't work. My anxieties have gone crazy. So now I am starting over and hope I have the same positive results as when I first started. I think posting on the forum was one of the biggest helps for me. So I just wanted you to know I am back and I really need your support.
Vicki

I would like that, to have someone check in on me and for me to talk to. I am not sure that I know what you are talking about, "homework", maybe I have not gotten that far into the program. There are a lot of deamons that I have to over come and I am not sure that I am strong enough to face them again.

Hi Karen!
Congratulations on your pregnancy! I too am seeing a Dr. for infertility not IVF but doses of Clomid and am trying to work the program as well... We are exactly where we need to be for help I too share your questions about when I get pregnant and how things are going to be as far as my getting better. I can tell you though that when I least expected it I started to feel healing type of feeling that I have never had before and it has been a long time! I feel like I was meant to read your site for encouragement that pregnancy will happen for me And I hopefully can help encourage you that this program is here for you and all of us Let me know if u need to talk...
Joy

Hi everyone I took just flew through the first couple of sessions and then had to start over... I agree that I want to be better so badly that I just went too fast! These support sites are like nothing else! I feel finally like I have somewhere to go outside of my own support system to be heard and understood
Vickijean- welcome back and never give up I have found that when I least expect it my mind will start to have a new thought and it is a feeling so new and conforting that I know it has to be the program helping me to reprogram the years of the anxiety... I am here to help!
Keep going it will be better

natsmom- Youwill do so well! I would actually recommend that you do it at your own pace not someone elses. I have found that the people who are most successful ar those that have 30 minutes set asside to do something with the program every day. One could watch the video while feeding the baby? (How old is he?)

Another idea that works for lots of people is to send in your homework every week or two. Put my name on it if you like.

Another way: sign up for coaching...your coach will call you once a week - there is no escape!

Let me know what you decide. Carolyn

There is no better motivation than that baby-just think of the life management skills you will be able to teach him! Not many of us were that lucky growing up where we?

Tabbetha--Feel free to share your fears and problems here. You'd be surprised how many people share the same thoughts and feelings you do and how much better you can feel just knowing you're not alone and someone cares. (Nathaniel's a cutey, by-the-way! My daughter had her first child when she was 19. Got married at 18, just out of high school, while her boyfriend was home on leave from Iraq. He went back and she found out she was pregnant. --Boy, those were fun times for me!!) Everything's fine now, but just letting you know that everyone has a story. Feel free to share parts of yours if you want. Take care! --t.

Welcome back, Vickijean! Looking forward to your posts again!

hi everyone! i'm starting over also. was doing well for a few mos and then started IVF and am now pregnant and scared to death i may have twins or that i may do something to screw it up. it was really expensive and painful w/all the tests, shots,etc that i'm still dealing w/now. am practicing the 6 steps to resolve panic attacks which sometimes work. i've learned i'll need to live w/anxiety vs try to fight it. i don't think it'll ever go away.
good luck to all.

Thank you I will do that. I do however think that my biggest fear is that I am only 19 and I am going through all this.

Hey Tabbetha, there is nothing to be afraid of with this program. To help you get started you could write to Carolyn Dickman she is the education director. She has some motivational postings on the forum you could also read. And then there is the call the 800 number.

Good luck and god bless
Vicki

I am new to the program and I am having a very hard time try to even begin it. I have had it since feb and I have watched some of the jump start and i have listed to the relaxation cd. I feel like i am stupid for thinking that there is something wrong but then i feel like there is something wrong. I was waiting for my support to start the program with me but he is scared to start himself. Is there anyone that I can talk to about the program and get the motivation to start it and i mean really start it?

Welcome back, and I think we can all relate with wanting to just hurry up and get through it for the reward of being free of anxiety and depression. lol. I can bare physical pain, have a good pain threshold that away but when it comes to emotional distess from anxiety depression or from my recovery from addictions, I want through it yesterday. I've been told by a few people now that I need to slow down and just keep working day at a time on things.
I try to look at this program as something that I will have to keep practicing and improving on for along time. I know I will be going back through the lessons to improve my skills on dealing with things too. Try to think of it as not graduating and being done with the program forever but as learning a new way to think and live.
I can so easily picture myself running through this program and at the end of 15 weeks saying "see it didn't work either". lol. (my ego just loves too tell me I'm beyond help) lol
silly ego tries to feed me them lies.
God Bless and daily prayers. Hang in there and best of luck.

Vickijean,
I think I am guilty of that myself. You just want so bad to get on with your life and take it back.

I wish you all the best. Just remember all of us are on the same journey with you. Let's lean on each other and get through this. This is my prayer for all of us.

My best to you.

VickiJean
Welcome back, Im glad you have returned. Keep the faith, you will do great!!!!
Vanessa

Thanks Hope4me. I think your right I want this to end...now!!!! I want my life back, well maybe not the old one but a life.
Good luck to you as well
Vicki