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Is fertility all in the mind?
Niravi B Payne, whose supporters include ER's Alex Kingston and country singer Kenny Loggins', believes a woman's fertility is often affected by stress and emotional upsets dating as far back as her childhood.
With over 17 years of experience in the field of mind-body medicine, she speaks passionately about her subject. According to Payne, her book - which encourages women to look deeper into the psychological reasons behind their inability to conceive - 'is not just challenging the medical system's view of fertility. Its basic intent is to heal the unnatural split between mind and body and to offer a very comprehensive, solid, well tried, documented and highly successful programme. It invites the reader to look at herself as an individual, not as an age group or by the quality of her eggs'. Payne's programme encourages women to delve deeper into their psyche and to question the medical system's diagnoses of 'unexplained infertility'.
From the waist up
Payne is worried that the medical profession is only interested in women and fertility 'from the waist down, as though everything above the waist has no bearing.' Her method known as The Whole Person Fertility Program, on the other hand, is concerned with looking at a patient's emotional history alongside their medical history. 'The book is telling women that they're unique, they're not just an age or a numerical fact. They are individual and here's an incredible programme to help them.'
On their first visit clients are given a 'health attitudinal and lifestyle profile questionnaire.' It includes questions about every aspect of their life, from their medical history through to questions about whether they do any sort of relaxation or physical exercise, whether they have plants or animals at home, what their sexual life is like, what they consider to be the most tension provoking trauma in their life, whether they've ever had an abortion, and so on.
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