Common belief
“You must suffer to succeed”
Discussed in 21 episodes. 4 women share a different experience.
This reflects mindset coaching perspectives from Rosanne Austin, JD, PCC. Always consult your medical team for clinical guidance.
Women Who Had a Different Experience
Teachings
Breakthroughs 2
Shame around your fertility journey blocks the love and support that's actually available
Yasemin initially felt ashamed trying to conceive at 40, but when she started sharing openly, people began praying for her and sharing positive stories of friends who conceived naturally at 48.
Grief can create massive fertility blocks that prevent you from believing you deserve to be happy
Tracy lost her father unexpectedly 3 years before and felt guilt about being happy and having a child he'd never meet, which created blocks until she reframed it as 'how proud he would be' and realized her kids would still know their grandpa through her stories.
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The collective awakening happening globally is that this journey doesn't have to be fear, lack, scarcity and burnout
Rosanne observes women all over the world rejecting the old narrative of fertility struggle. Her podcast reaches women across six continents who are embracing new rules of fertility based on empowerment rather than limitation.
When you become unfun in the name of having a baby, your partner will tap out faster than you can say 'make me another appointment at the clinic'
Austin describes how denying yourself joy and becoming rigid in pursuit of pregnancy creates marital discord and pushes partners away
Conceiving is all about receiving, so jealousy reveals what you're not allowing yourself to receive on your journey
This connects to Rosanne's repeated teaching across episodes that women succeed when they stop denying themselves opportunities and become resourceful in figuring out solutions.
Acts of faith in other life areas create momentum for fertility breakthroughs
Elise invested in new floors and wrote a book while pregnant at 45, demonstrating how expanding vision beyond fertility and taking leaps of faith in other areas amplifies receiving capacity overall.
Fertility yoga creates spaciousness where magic happens - you need space around experiences and thoughts to be receptive
Kerry describes how surrender created spaciousness in her body and mind that allowed natural conception after 2.5 years of failed treatments
Don't stop your life while you're on this fertility journey - you can live and be on this journey and have joy
Caroline was told to plan her wedding during her fertility journey, which brought joy back into her life. She conceived naturally in November, just two months after getting married in September.
There's a huge difference between something being hard meaning suffering versus discipline and choice and commitment
Caroline learned to take supplements, go to acupuncture, and do mindset work from joy rather than desperation. She conceived naturally after shifting from suffering mindset to disciplined action from a place of trust.
You can conceive in joy - it doesn't have to be hard in the sense of suffering
Caroline learned she didn't need to suffer to 'earn' her baby. She conceived naturally in November after a joyful September wedding and October honeymoon, embracing pleasure and celebration instead of struggle.
Hanging your self-worth on work and believing you must work hard to earn good things will cause you to make easy things unnecessarily difficult on your fertility journey
Rosanne explains that when you value hard work above all else, you will take easy, simple things, overthink them, get overwrought and overwhelmed because you learned that if it's not hard, you haven't earned it or you're not good enough
When you're living abundantly, abundance flows in all areas of life
When Tanya shifted to living fully—training for marathons, traveling, renovating—four different job opportunities appeared at work while she was conceiving naturally.
Gratitude for what you have shifts your energy from lack to abundance
After witnessing multiple heart attacks and near-death experiences, Tanya shifted from focusing on not having a baby to appreciating her wonderful life, husband, and opportunities.
The fertility journey doesn't have to be miserable - you can do the treatments with joy and surrender
Yasemin noticed IVF clinics were filled with misery where 'nobody says hi to each other' despite trying to create life. She learned to do the same treatments but with joyfulness and detachment from outcome.
We need to kill the martyr mother mentality - if you're choosing suffering and doing things the most challenging way possible, you're already signing up for that pattern
Lauren points out that cultural messaging of 'no pain, no gain' and 'suffer to prove you deserve it' creates resistance to pleasure even before becoming a mother.
If you don't take care of yourself on this journey by wholeheartedly investing in you and your dream, you virtually guarantee your failure
After coaching women to fertility success for coming up on 7 years with incredible results, Rosanne has identified this as a pattern that determines success or failure on the fertility journey.
Struggle is not a requirement for success - it's an attitude we choose, and commitment, discipline, and persistence don't require struggle by definition
Women in Rosanne's Fearlessly Fertile Method program consistently achieve success by learning to use their thoughts and beliefs differently, finding power within them that ended struggle addiction and helped them conceive.
You are already worthy of your success and birthright - you don't have to work your fingers to the bone or suffer to be worthy of what is coming for you
Women in the Fearlessly Fertile community found a gear they didn't know they had and used new thoughts, beliefs, and patterns to support their success rather than hinder it.
There's a huge difference between struggling and persevering - it's a very important distinction
Rosanne teaches that perseverance is strategic persistence while struggle is optional suffering that wastes precious energy and attention.
Apologizing for your longing to be a mother blocks your ability to receive what you want - your desire exists because you're meant to be a mom
Hannah realized she had been 'apologizing for her longing for years' and believing she wasn't worthy, but when she stopped apologizing and honored her desire, she conceived naturally at 43.
You are not responsible for other people's happiness during the holidays or any other time
Women on fertility journeys are typically type A doers and gladiators who give so much throughout the year, but without taking restorative time, they end up burnt out and hating the holidays.
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Living your fertility journey in guilt, shame, scarcity and austerity is complete bullshit and will keep your success out of reach
Rosanne conceived naturally at 43 after rejecting this mindset, and her clients experience similar transformations when they stop living in misery mode on their journeys.
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