The Tools and Support
Needed to Better Face
Life's Challenges
The Tools and Support
Needed to Better Face
Life's Challenges
Health and Fertility
Reducing Stress
and Enhancing Resiliency
This groundbreaking program offered by the Benson-Henry Institute for Mindy Body Medicine has helped hundreds of women and couples through their struggles with infertility.
- Regain a sense of control and well-being
- Develop coping strategies to better manage treatments
- Optimize your chances for success
Much research has shown that learning and practicing mind body strategies helps to decrease physical symptoms and to reduce feelings of distress, depression, anxiety, isolation, and anger.
The program is led by Ellen Slawsby, PhD, an expert in the field of women’s health and Director of Women’s Health programs at the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine at MassGeneral Hospital.
Goals and Components
The program teaches women how they can:
- Regain a sense of control and well-being
- Develop coping strategies to manage treatments better, and optimize their chances for success
- Learn techniques to elicit the relaxation response including deep breathing, imagery, and yoga.
- Learn a combination of skills to help to reduce stress and reverse negative thinking.
- Up-to-date information on how lifestyle behaviors can impact fertility
- Integration of self care/self nurturance
The program includes three individual visits reimbursed by most insurers,
and eight weeks of two-hour self-pay group sessions.
For more information call Lisa Teague at
617.643.6063
or email mindbody@partners.org.
Note: When contacting us via the above email, in order to protect your privacy, please do not include medical information (i.e. diagnosis, symptoms) or other personal/financial information. We can discuss these details at the time we respond and offer you secure methods for follow-up communication.
