Foreword
IT IS LOVE THAT CREATES LIFE, and it is love that heals. The radical yet easy-to-follow healing approach of Conceiving with Love turns the pain of infertility into the transformative power of love.
The ancient healing tradition of Chinese philosophy recognizes the power of the heart. Our oldest authoritative medical text advises us that the heart is the empress of the body, controlling all of its systems. It is the seat of wisdom, the home of the spirit, and the origin of all transformative healing. When it is deficient or in any way obstructed, all under its domain can suffer the effects of its disturbance. All imbalance ultimately arises from losing connection with the power of our own heart, yet the promise is that all healing comes from the depths within our own heart. I have witnessed this miraculous truth again and again in my own life and in the countless examples of radical healing I have witnessed in those who have come to recognize this same truth. It is the heart that connects usto our own depths, to others, and to the origin of life. It is through the hearts direct connection with the womb that life is able to manifest.
Imagine a healing process that can improve your fertility, self-awareness, and level of intimacy while experiencing the exquisite pleasure of transformative love. When you begin reading this book, your mind may be occupied with fearful and conflicting thoughts of whether youll be able to conceive a child. Your journey, like mine, may have taken you through the disillusionment of realizing what conventional medicine has to offer. When these tensions take over your life, it can cut you off from your pleasure centers, your receptivity, and even your ability to heal. By the time you get through this book, Denise Wiesners labor of love, these thoughts will turn from the stressful mindset of How can I make a baby? to How can I love more deeply? And believe me, this is the most fertile mindset in existence.
Finally, a conversation about intimacy, sex, and fertility! The sterile procedures of reproductive medicine have little to offer when it comes to ameliorating the sometimes damaging effects that infertility can leave in its wake. Studies have shown that reckoning with infertility can cause the same kind of trauma as that experienced in PTSDeven if you have successfully conceived and given birth previously. Trying to conceiveeven naturally, outside of assisted reproductive medicinetends to turn passion, intimacy, and lovemaking into a cold, goal-oriented pursuit, resulting in frustration and sometimes deep and inconsolable despair. Lovemaking is replaced by mechanical sex commanded by ovulation predictor kits, literally killing our receptivity along with our most important relationships. And yet, as a society, we seem crippled by our reliance on external modalities that falsely offer shortcuts over the true power of inner healing. It seems impossible that surrendering to the hearts ability to experience the depths of intimate pleasure can be the route by which radical healing can occur. And yet, how you make love, how you receive from another and express yourself sexually can reveal what needs to be healedin your own body, in your feeling center, and in society as a whole. We all have wounds here.
Bringing passion, intimacy, and ecstasy back into baby-making can be the transformative healing power youve been craving. It can truly improve your chances of successfully conceiving and strengthen your most intimate relationshipwith yourself. In this way you will transform your outer relationships while creating a blissful, highly energized state into which new life is drawn. Denise dives into the subjects of health, epigenetic inheritance, intimacy, honesty, and trauma during this most important journey toward parenthoodall within the framework of Chinese medicine and backed by science and years of professional experience.
Ive known Denise, a dear friend and trusted colleague, for many years. We have shared similar strugglesinfertility, heartache, and loss, as well as the transformative healing that Chinese medicine offers. We have each, in our own way, learned to shine within a medical paradigm that simply does not recognize the true power of transformational healing. Like all true healers, Denise has gone into the depths of her own healing process; she has courageously been willing to live as a female warrior and recognize the healing power of love. This is not simply a feel-good self-help book; it is a powerful invitation to break through any barriers that prevent the flame of love and life from burning, to discover whats holding you back from living the most passionate, fulfilling, and fertile life you could possibly imagine.
If you would like to be free enough to be unconditionally happy, ask yourself: Is there enough pleasure, intimacy, love, and gratitude in your life right now? Do you desire to open up your own inner psychic life and experience the courage of sharing the depths of yourself with another? Would you like to experience the transformative power of love as you open up the depths of your soul? It doesnt matter what direction your path is taking you. It may include a completely natural approach or you might involve assisted reproductive procedures. No matter your journey, it is love that opens up the field of miraculous potential through which life arises. We all long for unconditional love. We know its healing potential. You have an opportunity to transcend any lack of love you may be experiencing right now. The love you live will be the greatest offeringto yourself and to your future children.