World Childless week is on again – September 16-22, 2019. World Childless Week aims to raise awareness of the childless not by choice (CNBC) community. To help the community to find support groups that understand their grief and can help them move forwards to acceptance. It’s for anyone who is childless despite their longing to be a parent because they have never been pregnant (for any reason), not carried full term or have suffered the sadness of a baby born sleeping.
Why the need for such a community, and an event? Childless rates are at an all-time high. Did you know that 1 in 4-5 couples in Australia are childless? Recent meta-analysis suggests that whilst perhaps 10% of women without children choose not to be mothers (childfree), and 10% can’t have them for medical reasons including infertility, 80 per cent of childless women are ‘childless by circumstance’.
To view a list of some examples of circumstances you may click here to download chapter 1 from “Living the life Unexpected” by Jody Day.
Within my practice I see both people who have to face a future without children, as well as those who still have hope. I am CNBC and I don’t wish that on anyone that didn’t choose it, so I went about learning how the body and mind works so that I could get my own body back to the state it should have been in from the beginning before I started trying to conceive. I now have the knowledge and experience to help others get their body balanced to give them a better chance.
For those facing a future without children, who have not chosen this path, there is a lot of grief and loss associated with this. Negative emotions may have ill effects on the body in the future. Kinesiology and the other modalities I practice help people to breakthrough this dark cloud and shift any blocks to a balanced body and mind. This is also great as a preventative measure as often there may be a delayed response and physical symptoms may not manifest until months or years down the track and you don’t know why.
There are many ways and directions that kinesiology may help people to deal with grief and loss, as well as fertility struggles. One of these ways is a focus on physical health.
Do you or your partner suffer with any of the following:
- Irregular or heavy periods
- Thyroid disorders
- Endometriosis
- Fibroids
- PCOS
- Infertility
- Early Onset Puberty
- Early Onset Menopause
- Breast, Ovarian, Testicular cancer
- Genital Malformation
- Male Breast Growth
- Weight gain / Obesity
These are all symptoms of the endocrine system represented by the Water element in the Chinese 5 Element Theory. Each other element has an interconnected relationship with Water in either a positive and/or negative way. The good news is if something negative is happening you can make positive changes and the body respond accordingly.
Often the cycle that leads to endocrine disorder starts with stress of some kind. This stress could be literal, or perceived. It could me a thought, an event, something you’ve put into your body, on your skin or been exposed to. It could be something you’re born with and more. If not address this will lead onto problems in the Fire element (Wood feeds a Fire).
FIRE in Chinese medicine represents the mind. And what happens is people start experiencing insomnia and sleeping problems and some people will feel hot.
Fire if it’s not treated will affect the EARTH element.
Earth is Stomach and Spleen. People here start feeling like they’re not grounded, they start having stomach issues, heartburn, diarrhoea, IBS and that can relate to having too much fire that’s not been addressed.
If you leave the Earth, and don’t resolve the problems the next step will be the METAL.
Metal is also to do with overthinking, but here it may affect the immune system, which relates to the Lung. And what can happen with Metal is that it can make you overthink things and then metal element will become deficient.
The next step if this is not addressed is Water, and the Kidneys. This is one of the most important factors for fertility, particularly those that are slightly older. Because what happens is you are born with a certain amount of Kidney essence, over the years the Kidney essence gets depleted, and it’s the Water element that regulates your hormones.
What you’ll also find is if the WOOD element, which is the stress hormone, is saying “I am first, and I am the most important one” it will basically suck the energy away from the Water Element, your body will say “I am in survival mode”, and will then give the energy to wood. That’s less Water, less hormonal balance you may have.
The other influence you’ll have is the more Wood you have the more FIRE you’ll have. Fire will INSULT and will affect the Water Element. So now for fertility and hormonal issues there’s a double whammy that starts to happen.
- Liver sucks the energy from Water
- Gives more fire
- Fire then DESTROYS the immune system
So when looking at the Chinese 5-Elements you look at the whole person. What is driving the person to be unbalanced. And this is the secret to addressing the fertility and hormonal issues related to the endocrine system.
If you or someone you know is having problems please let them know that there is support out through from someone who has experienced this themselves, and is living proof that you can heal yourself with the help and support of professional practitioners who can teach them about their body’s innate ability to heal itself and how.
Please note this information is just an overview of the concepts involved and has been written to give you a taste of the complexities involved. Everyone is unique, and their circumstances are unique to them so there is never a one solution that fits all. Within my practice every session is tailored specifically for each client in a safe way. And we look at the mind and body as a whole and how one aspect affects the other. Your symptoms maybe a sign of something that’s wrong in a seemingly unrelated aspect of your body or life. Choose to make change for the better and heal now.
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For further information or an appointment which you can book online:
www.empoweringhealth.clinic
www.childlesssupport.com
info@empoweringhealth.clinic
Anne Barratt is owner of Empowering Health in Springwood NSW offering face to face and online services, such as Mindset Breakthrough Coaching, Kinesiology, Hypnotherapy, NLP, EFT, Reiki, Epigenetic Healing Cycles, and other forms of mind-body energetic work. Determined to help others with their life, health, and wellbeing not make the same mistakes she did, Anne left her corporate career, to research and study the human body and how it works, to better understand the underlying contributing factors to symptoms, and how the body is designed to heal itself. Anne is also an international writer, and speaker, advocating for the childless by circumstance and those with fertility issues.
