Tokophobia

Tokophobia is a debilitating fear of childbirth which in many cases is so profound that it can lead to a complete avoidance of pregnancy or a pregnancy filled with terror and anxiety.  As women are exposed to disturbing images and stories of childbirth from friends family and especially the media, Tokophobia is becoming more and more common. 

Actress Helen Mirren described where her own fear of childbirth came about in a recent interview after being exposed to a childbirth video in her early teens in school.
 "I swear it traumatised me to this day. I haven't had children and now I can't look at anything to do with childbirth. It absolutely disgusts me."  - Helen Mirren

This high level of fear is irrational and it cannot be consciously controlled by techniques such as counseling, yoga or controlled breathing…(although these will help with the feelings of panic)…...the change has to be initiated in the subconscious mind.  Just like any other irrational fear such as flying or other phobias it’s easy to resolve with hypnotherapy.  All the talk therapy in the world won’t even scrape the surface with an irrational fear.  You can’t reason with such a strong negative belief….women often say – “logically I know birth is relatively safe and my hospital has all the tools I need if it’s necessary so why am I still so terrified?”  When sufferes understand that it’s not the logical reasoning part of their mind that is creating this panic it’s the subconscious mind an area which we have no conscious control over.

If you suffer from Tokophobia you are not alone and help is available.  Our 5 week Tokophobia program gets to the root cause (the initial sensitizing event that caused the fear)  and ‘upgrades’ the programming/your beliefs about birth so your mind expects childbirth to be positive and something to look forward to  - not dreaded. 

Having worked with many Tokophobic clients we’ve developed a self-help program that changes how you feel about pregnancy and childbirth easily and effectively in a few short weeks. You weren't born with this fear and it's easy to recondition your subconscious mind to expect pregnancy and birth to be much more positive – something to be excited about rather than feared and avoided.   Using self hypnosis you begin to associate pregnancy and birth with much more positive images and feelings.  You may still have the same thoughts about childbirth but the anxiety is gone.

For whatever reason (movies…..scary birth stories etc) your subconscious mind has associated childbirth with something to be feared so we are changing that association and conditioned response from childbirth = panic/hysteria and fear to childbirth = confidence and excitement. 

It’s not magic but it definitely feels that way to the women who go from planning a cesarean or general anesthetic for childbirth from the moment of that first positive pregnancy test to comfortable enjoyable pregnancies and even blissful births !!

Call us today for more information  – your baby is waiting for you !

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