Hope On Your TTC Journey

Disclaimer: This meditation uses words and visualizations that may be triggering for some people. The listener’s discretion is strongly advised. This meditation is only to be used as a tool for coping and not as a substitute for professional services or advice. Please consult with a mental health or medical professional for help if needed.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but this meditation is for you! If you’re on a ‘trying to conceive’ (TTC) journey, and you need a bit of encouragement to keep going, find yourself losing hope, or just need a soothing space to cry it out, then you’re in the right place. Let this meditation guide you in holding space for yourself and all you are going through on this journey, and lead you back to a place of peace. Return to this meditation as often as needed, and remember you are not alone.

Music by Chris Collins

Transcript

Welcome.

This is a guided meditation to help you find peace and hold space for yourself despite this cycle not going as planned.

Find a quiet and comfortable place where you can sit or lie down.

Close your eyes.

Take a deep breath in through the nose and sigh it out through the mouth.

Big inhale and exhale.

Last big breath in and a big sigh out.

So things didn't go as you hoped.

Something that you've been waiting,

Wishing,

Hoping,

Praying,

Trying and crying for.

For what feels like long enough and again another failed cycle.

It's hard not to feel sad,

Angry,

Frustrated,

Annoyed and so many other feelings even all at once.

All that you are feeling as a result of this trying to conceive journey is valid and you are not alone.

In one moment you might be feeling strong and ready to take on the challenge and in another you feel defeated and lost.

For some it can feel like the rollercoaster ride that you never asked to go on.

Twisting and turning in several directions leaving you dizzy at the end.

For others it feels as if you're stuck in a heavy rainstorm and you can't find your way out.

You duck and dash as you weave your way down the sidewalk from awning to awning just to find shelter hoping to ride it out but it's just persistent and unrelenting.

Fortunately as we know with all storms and rollercoasters at some point they come to an end and you'll find your way back to peace.

You'll find your way through it.

Pretty soon the clouds do part,

The ride will end and on the other side is a beautiful beaming light of hope.

The hope that you will live to try again.

The hope that you will have success eventually.

The hope that no matter how many times you get knocked down during this journey that you will find the strength to stand up again and again and again.

As one cycle ends so another begins.

Another chance for a renewal,

For a fresh new bloom,

For the bright warming sun after a cold rainy day.

Another chance to decide how and when you want to begin again.

Take a deep breath in and exhale.

This is your reminder that you deserve to be a mother.

That you deserve to have the family you desire.

You are deserving of all good things.

You are enough.

It is safe for you to decide how and when you want to begin again.

You watch as the clouds drift further and further away or as the rollercoaster drifts out of your point of view.

You choose again to look forward,

Moving towards that beaming light of hope and leaving the past behind.

Take one last deep breath in and exhale.

Sigh it out and let it go.

Gently flutter the eyes open,

Coming back to this space in your present moment.

All my love and blessings to you as you continue on in your trying to conceive journey.

Namaste.