Rosanne AustinDiscovery Hub
Teaching2019-03-11·10 min

EP6: Struggling with “What Ifs?” Here’s how to deal.

EP6: Struggling with “What Ifs?” Here’s how to deal.

Rosanne teaches how to neutralize negative 'what if' spirals that paralyze fertility journeys. She provides a simple response framework and shows how to flip what-ifs from fear-based torture to empowering tools for success.

The Problem with What-If Thinking

Rosanne reveals how what-ifs rendered her, a successful prosecutor, into a quivering mass of terror on her fertility journey. She exposes the truth about what-ifs: they're negatively biased, intellectually dishonest, and presume powerlessness.

The Single Response That Changes Everything

The game-changing phrase 'I will find a way' neutralizes any negative what-if while putting faith in yourself instead of fear. This simple response shifts you from victim to empowered woman who trusts her desire to be a mom.

Flipping What-Ifs to Work FOR You

For every negative what-if, there's an equally valid positive possibility. By controlling your focus and asking empowering what-ifs like 'What if everything works out perfectly?', you turn your creative power toward success instead of spinning in fear.

Questions This Episode Answers

How do you stop what if spirals during fertility treatment

What if blank. Your answer, I will find a way. What if blank. I will find a way. Simple, true, empowering as fuck.

Rosanne Austin4:16

Use the single response 'I will find a way' to any negative what-if. Then immediately redirect your focus to positive possibilities that are equally valid, like 'What if everything works out perfectly for me?'

Why do what ifs feel so scary during fertility journey

They have an undeniably negative bias. They are intellectually dishonest, ignoring an equally possible positive outcome. They presume powerlessness on your part.

Rosanne Austin3:25

What-ifs feel scary because they have a negative bias, are intellectually dishonest, and presume you're powerless. They're like bullies that manipulate you into focusing on narrow sky-is-falling facts instead of the whole truth.

How to use what ifs to your advantage fertility

Focus your energy on the possibility that shit can actually go right. Focus your creative power on how things can work for you.

Rosanne Austin6:49

Focus your energy on positive what-ifs that feel great and are just as legitimate. Ask 'What if everything works out perfectly for me?' instead of dwelling on negative scenarios. Control your focus to control your narrative.

What to say when you have negative thoughts about fertility

This is all about you putting faith in you. It's about trusting the desire in your heart to be a mom, not the fucking fear that will block your success.

Rosanne Austin4:47

Respond with 'I will find a way' to any negative what-if thought. This puts faith in yourself rather than fear, and immediately shifts you from victim mentality to empowerment.

Are negative thoughts more realistic than positive ones

Just because something is negative doesn't make it more credible. Use your critical thinking skills here. See beyond the bluster. Refuse to be bullied.

Rosanne Austin8:31

No, just because something is negative doesn't make it more credible. Both negative and positive outcomes are equally possible - negative thoughts are just louder bullies trying to control your focus.

How to Neutralize Negative What-Ifs on Your Fertility Journey

A three-step process to stop what-if spirals and turn them into empowering tools

  1. 1

    Respond with power

    When a negative what-if shows up, respond with a sassy self-assured 'I will find a way'

  2. 2

    Choose your focus

    Immediately decide where you will focus - on more crazy chicken little bullshit or positive possibilities

  3. 3

    Flip the script

    Turn the shitty what-ifs around and ask what-ifs that feel great and are just as legitimate, like 'What if everything works out perfectly for me?'

All Teachings 5

TeachingChallenging3:25

Most what-ifs have an undeniably negative bias and are intellectually dishonest, ignoring equally possible positive outcomes

Rosanne Austin conceived naturally at 43 despite years of fertility treatment failure by changing her relationship with what-if thinking and focusing on positive possibilities instead of fear-based scenarios.

TeachingEmpowering4:16

The single response to neutralize any what-if is 'I will find a way' - simple, true, empowering as fuck

This framework helped Rosanne Austin transition from prosecutor who what-if'd herself into abject terror to successfully conceiving naturally at 43, and she now teaches this to women across 6 continents.

TeachingReframing5:49

For every negative what-if, there is an equally persuasive positive possibility - the negative ones might be louder but that doesn't make them right

Rosanne Austin defied the odds using mindset technology after years of treatment failure, and now teaches women around the world to beat the odds by controlling their focus on positive possibilities.

TeachingEmpowering6:39

When you control your focus, you control your narrative - this is how you use what-ifs to your advantage

This focus control technique is part of the exact mindset technology Rosanne Austin used to conceive naturally at 43 and teaches at her Fearlessly Fertile Breakthrough Retreats to help women get results they've always craved.

TeachingChallenging8:31

Just because something is negative doesn't make it more credible - use your critical thinking skills and refuse to be bullied

Rosanne Austin, former California sexual assault prosecutor with complex jury trials, learned that the same critical thinking skills that made her an assassin in the courtroom needed to be applied differently on her fertility journey.

Episode Tone
2 challenging2 empowering1 reframing

Key Teachings 5

Most what-ifs have an undeniably negative bias and are intellectually dishonest, ignoring equally possible positive outcomes

3:25

The single response to neutralize any what-if is 'I will find a way' - simple, true, empowering as fuck

4:16

For every negative what-if, there is an equally persuasive positive possibility - the negative ones might be louder but that doesn't make them right

5:49

When you control your focus, you control your narrative - this is how you use what-ifs to your advantage

6:39

Just because something is negative doesn't make it more credible - use your critical thinking skills and refuse to be bullied

8:31

Perspectives 2

What-if thinking is rational planning that helps narrow the margin of error on your fertility journey

CONSIDER: What-ifs are intellectually dishonest, negatively biased thoughts that presume powerlessness and can render intelligent women into quivering masses of pathetic jelly

Negative what-ifs are more credible and realistic than positive possibilities

CONSIDER: For every negative what-if, there is an equally persuasive positive possibility - negative what-ifs are just louder bullies trying to control your focus

Quotable Moments

What if blank. Your answer, I will find a way. What if blank. I will find a way. Simple, true, empowering as fuck.

Rosanne Austin4:16

Quit worshiping at the altar of negative what ifs. It's boring and covered with spiders. Gross.

Rosanne Austin3:45

For every negative what if, there is an equally persuasive positive possibility, my love. The negative what ifs might be louder at present, but that doesn't make them right.

Rosanne Austin5:49

When you control your focus, you control your narrative.

Rosanne Austin6:39

Just because something is negative doesn't make it more credible.

Rosanne Austin8:31

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