Guest Blogger Kathryn Flynn from Fertile Foods and Author of Cooking for Fertility: Foods to Nourish Your Fertile Soul wrote a review about Circle + Bloom’s Fertility Programs and Energy for Empowerment Program. We are happy to share the review with you!

Circle + Bloom Guided Meditations
for Fertility

The relaxation response is a key element on the fertility journey. Circle and Bloom has created a series of mind body programs with the intention of helping women to gain control of their health, by reducing cortisol levels and balancing the internal system. Their first programs help women to enhance their fertility through the effects of meditative relaxation and they plan to continue with more general topics like the energy for empowerment series.

As I write this blog, I have just completed my second session of Circle + Bloom’s Energy for Empowerment guided visualization. Calm and more centered, I am convinced that guided meditations are not only a wonderful way to start the day but a key to creating a healthy mind body connection in everyday life.

Research shows that our bodies cannot tell the difference between what we are visualizing and what we are actually experiencing. The implications of these findings are incredible, implying that we can actually retrain our bodies to the perfect state of health by working with mind body meditations that deliver positive messages and relaxation.

If you are looking to enhance fertility consider the following Circle + Bloom meditations:

Natural Cycle: 28 days of guided meditations that lead you through each day and happening of a fertile month.

IVF and IUI: Helps to prepare your body for a medicated cycle.

We are proud to have one of couples on the TLC: A Conception Story write a review of our Natural Fertility Program. They also have their own personal blog Army Wife Post Read on for the review.

Circle + Bloom Fertility Programs

Susan over at Circle + Bloom™ was so awesome to let Army Wife Post try out her great fertility programs. I have been sharing the information with my friends, but wanted to tell you guys all about it too!

Circle+Bloom has multiple meditation CD’s available for purchase or download. It is super quick to decide Circle+Bloom is awesome and to quickly download it and get started. Here is the buzz:

My cycles are EXTREMELY crazy. Sometimes they are normal (30ish days) and sometimes like the last it is more like 45 looong days. I have been using Circle+Bloom’s Natural Cycle for Fertility Program:

It includes twenty-eight unique audio meditations that are fifteen minutes each. If you are a
“regular girl” this is perfect for you. If you are not one of those blessed vixens that is okay too because Susan is amazing at what she does! I listened to repeat days for days at a time just guessing where I was in my cycle. I took the fifteen minutes each day for myself to just lay there in bed and relax before I got up for the day. Side note: Next time I will do this BEFORE I go to sleep for the night as I was always so calm and relaxed that bed instead of work sounded better.

I feel like my life is full of stress and not just the stress of getting pregnant, but my job, school, the FRG, volunteering, wives group, etc etc etc. This fifteen minutes each day allowed me to focus on ME! and not everything else. I also couldn’t believe how great I was at switching my mind to focusing on me and the relaxation of my body instead of thinking about typing six pages for a paper, running J lunch, picking up packets for work, etc.

Now let’s say you aren’t trying to get pregnant like me….who doesn’t want babies? ha ha. Circle+Bloom has something for you too! Happy Mind and Healthy Body focuses on a better you and even what any of us need…a Blissful Sleep Program plus so much more!

Susan was also kind enough to let me stock my iPod with meditation program for an IUI/IVF program cycle. I am so antsy to start not only our IVF cycle but that as well to keep me relaxed and hopefully worry free!

One more thing!!! I love Circle+Bloom so much I keep imagining where else I can use the programs. Maybe I can start having sleeping problems so I can use her blissful sleep program ha ha or when I get pregnant (one day!) I can try the one she has made for pregnant women. Genius!

Ohh wait even ONE more thing!!! Susan and Circle+Bloom love the military Love it SO much that if you go there and enter the coupon code “military30” at checkout you will be relaxing even more with 30% off EVERYTHING!

Do it and come back and tell me you loved every minute of it

Circle + Bloom was recently reviewed by Kim of Surviving Motherhood. Surviving Motherhood is a popular Mom’s blog, dealing with infertility, TTC and parenting topics. We are happy to share this review with you.

Circle+Bloom Saved My Sanity.

I recently, by chance, came across this website called Circle+Bloom. I saw this: “For Those Serious About Getting Pregnant. something you can do every single day, during your fertility journey.”So of course I was intrigued because I’d never heard of this website before and wanted to know more. The more I read, the more excited I was – they have programs for women who are trying to get pregnant and here’s how it works:

If you think that stress is in any way coming in between you and parenthood, look no further for your solution. Here it is, and it is waiting to be downloaded for you right now.

But that’s not all, our programs are also based on the fact that we have have “body-intelligence” that we can tap into using guided imagery or visualization. It’s therapeutic benefits are profound and we’ve taken the guess-work out of it for you. Spending just 15 minutes a day for your fertility, our programs are elegantly simple, and surprisingly effective.

Start Today.

-Circle+Bloom

In a nut shell, you take 15 minutes out of your day to de-stress, relax your body (which relaxes your emotions!) and use guided imagery to balance what’s going on in the inside of your body. I love this for so many reasons, the main one being that when you’re trying so hard to get pregnant you start working against yourself. You can’t relax and you get stressed out over it all which actually goes against your goal of trying to conceive…I’m living proof of that one. Everyone tells you “relax” and “stop thinking about it” which always makes me laugh because it’s like telling an alcoholic “don’t drink”. It’s not that easy.

Is there one of these programs you’d like to try, why?? Let’s share some positive energy together, as Moms we need all we can get sometimes don’t we?!

*Disclosure: We were sent 4 of the programs mentioned to review and tell you about. All our opinions are our own and completely honest.

Congratulations Jennifer and Tom! A fertility journey of a couple becoming pregnant after their first IVF with the help of Circle + Bloom’s IVF mind+body audio program.

My husband and I have been married for 7 years. I am 37 and he is 38 we met at work and fell very hard for each other very quickly… we lived together for 2 years, then got engaged January 2, 2004 and married on November 13, 2004 we had the most perfect wedding and where beginning the “Perfect Life together” or so we thought. We started trying to have a child after our 1st year of Marriage and had no luck we both got tested in 2006 and we found out my husband had fertility issues that made having our own child with his sperm impossible, and it was devastating to say the least. It took the next 3 years to get through the pain and despair that we would never have our own biological child. Then we started to explore our options we finally decided to do IUI with donor sperm, it was a very tough decision but we were determined to have a family. We did 5 IUI’s, 1 natural, 2 with femera, 1 with clomid and 1 with injectables and none of them worked in 2009 or 2010.

We came to a point where we just couldn’t handle the roller coaster of emotions and the devastation any longer. So we stopped everything at the end of 2010. So for November and December 2010, and January 2011 I took time to recover mentally, physically, and decided to make a change. My husband and I set up a consult with Dr. Kiltz of CNY Fertility in Syracuse NY in December to start our First IVF in February of 2011.

I changed my diet completely to all fruits, vegetables and organic meats and started doing Zumba to lose some weight. I also started taking Royal Jelly and at the recommendation of Dr. Kiltz downloaded Circle + Bloom’s IVF mind-body program and started listening to them religiously night after night after night.. It transformed my subconscious and made me very positive and relaxed beyond what I knew I could be… we did the IVF Cycle in February 2011 and had 13 eggs at retrieval, 9 fertilized and 4 made it to maturity, we picked the 3 best embryos and had our transfer March 3rd, 2011.

We got our first ever POSITIVE Home pregnancy test on March 11, 2011. I kept testing all weekend and had two blood tests done. The first beta was 100, second was 242. My first Ultrasound was March 28, 2011 and we prayed that we would see our little miracle for the first time and get to see the heart beating strongly and we did, the heart beat was 140, it was the most amazing thing we had ever seen, I am now 24 weeks and everything is going great! We are having a BOY!

What I would tell others that are just about to purchase your product: Miracles do happen and don’t ever give up on your dreams of having a family!

My husband and I thank you from the bottom of our hearts!

Our Happy Mind and Healthy Body Program, which improves your health, was recently reviewed by a member of The Connected Mom. The Connected Mom is a natural parenting site that focuses on fostering positive connections with our children, our communities, our planet, and each other. We are happy to share this review with you.

Circle+Bloom’s Happy Mind and Healthy Body Program

I’m writing the final in the trilogy of our reviews of our sponsor, Circle + Bloom’s, programs. Like Kayce and Mandi before me, I was excited by the opportunity to try out the meditation program. However, this was not my first experience with meditation programs. When I was pregnant with my son, I took hypnobirthing classes. I knew from that personal experience the potential for longevity the ideas of meditation programs have. (I STILL find the affirmations about birth and motherhood I heard during those sessions bubbling up in my head from time to time!) So, I was eager to experience what circle + bloom had to offer with their Happy Mind and Healthy Body program and I was not disappointed.

I have briefly mentioned that I do have depression. The truth is that I have been struggling with it a lot since my move. The rough part of depression is that it often becomes harder to fight in times of transition . . .no matter how happy the transition. So, I struggled with it when I finished college, I struggled with it when we got married, I struggled with it after my son is born, and now that we have moved cross country, I’ve been struggling with it again. It feels like you are treading a powerful current that keeps trying to suck you down. One morning, I found myself crying five times before lunch and it can be difficult to explain to others exactly what is wrong when it literally is all in your head! It can be especially difficult when cognitively, you know that your life is good, but emotionally, you still feel depressed. This has been my life for the last month or so since we moved, although many people I know will be surprised to read this as I have kept my struggle fairly private. So, when offered a chance to review a product that gave a chance at a “Happy mind.” I thought, “Yes!”

Happy Mind and Healthy body is a called a “21 day program,” but with four “weeks” of sessions and a bonus session, it could be used for a much longer period if you wanted to (and I intend to). Like the programs Kayce and Mandi reviewed, this one tackles a different aspect of health every week and you listen to the same session everyday for a few days or a week period.

Honestly, my favorite sessions were the first and the last of the regular sessions. These were the sessions that dealt directly with the “Happy Mind” portion of the program. The sessions in the middle were focused on the healthy body and involved very, very deep physical relaxation exercises that were difficult for me to completely participate in given that my son (much like his fetal self during my hypnobirthing sessions who used to kick me incessantly and do flips) seemed to have a sixth sense for when I would be attempting to do the program with my headphones and would nearly always wake up/cry/ask to nurse at some point during the session no matter how asleep he should have been during nap or after bedtime.

The first session was an overview that emphasized the power of the mind over the body and what one can accomplish when one engages oneself fully. It also laid the basis for how to adapt the program to whatever health goals you want it to accomplish. The last week was entitled “Positive Thinking/Mindfulness” and I found that after just two days of listening to the program, I felt less like crying and more in charge of my emotions again. It was a little like being able to come home to myself once more instead of constantly fighting with the crazy person who sometimes tries to take charge of my body. I’ve tried journaling for my depression, going to counseling for my depression, listening to uplifting music for my depression, and changing my diet for my depression, but this is the first time that it’s only taken two days for something to make me feel better. It was awesome. I can’t say it would work this way for everyone, but it certainly did for me and since I finished that week, I’ve found I have more energy and am struggling significantly less with my depression!

The mp3 program can be downloaded from their website here and only costs $24.00 with a 100% money-back guarantee. Isn’t it worth a try?

Our Natural Cycle for Fertility Program, which can help you to conceive, was recently reviewed by a member of The Connected Mom. The Connected Mom is a natural parenting site that focuses on fostering positive connections with our children, our communities, our planet, and each other. We are happy to share this review with you.

Circle+Bloom’s Natural Cycle for Fertility Program

Having tried to get and stay pregnant for three years, I had tried things all over the map. From charting to not charting, from relaxation to actually trying, from acupuncture to seeing a doctor and having 8 ultrasounds in 8 weeks. My energy has gotten better with different things, but nothing has had that “edge” that I have been looking for. Nothing was really working to keep me pregnant. And the stress of it was getting worse every cycle.

A few of my friends in the infertility circle had tried Circle+Bloom’s meditation tracks and absolutely raved about them. A few got pregnant and stayed pregnant, a few didn’t but still swore by the program.

I was at the point where it didn’t matter what I would try, I wasn’t so much trying to get pregnant, but relax and release the stress I was building up with each day and cycle that passed.

Circle+Bloom has been absolutely amazing and sent me the download to their Natural Cycle for Fertility Program. I was already on cycle day 19, but that didn’t matter. Their tracks are made so you can listen to and start on the day you are on, you don’t have to wait for a new cycle, which is a huge plus since you never know when you need to start listening and waiting for another cycle can be stressful in and of itself.

The first time I listened to one of the tracks, my best friend and I were at acupuncture. I put the track on my Kindle and made it loud enough for both of us to listen since she is trying to get pregnant also, and I wanted her opinion on it.

There is nothing like the feeling you will get when you listen to this program, and the relaxation is just one part. The Mind-Body connection is so powerful and using that while trying to get pregnant can be invaluable.

I received the Circle+Bloom Natural Cycle for Fertility Program to review, no other compensation was given, and the views expressed are my own.

Our Energy for Empowerment Program, which can help you improve your energy levels and your sleep, was recently reviewed by a member of  The Connected Mom. The Connected Mom is a natural parenting site that focuses on fostering positive connections with our children, our communities, our planet, and each other.  We are happy to share this review with you.

Circle+Bloom’s Energy for Empowerment Program

Several days ago, Kayce shared a review of the Circle+Bloom’s Natural Cycle for Fertility Program. When I learned of the opportunity to review their Energy for Empowerment Program, I jumped on it. I have three kids under the age of six and another on the way, so energy comes at a premium. Sometimes, I don’t think I have enough energy to complete everything that needs to be done. Admittedly, I am a bit of a skeptic when it comes to things like this, but what could it hurt? I decided to give it a try. I will do anything to gain some energy!

I was pleasantly surprised. The Energy for Empowerment Program includes four twenty-minute sessions. In each session, Joanne Verkuilen presents a guided visualization that focuses on one element of the body: metabolism, endocrine system, circulation and blissful sleep. She uses a calm, comforting voice. I could literally feel my body relax as I breathed deeply through each visualization.

The relaxation element is nice, but these visualizations offer far more than that. Each session also feels like a mini anatomy lesson. The uplifting, encouraging language is balanced with helpful information about different organs, glands, and hormones and the roles they play in providing energy. Knowing the function and location of these parts helped me to see them in my mind and feel more in touch with my body. I could picture the endorphins flowing from my hypothalamus. Once you have focused your intuition, the sessions encourage you to look inward and contemplate the actions you need to take to maximize your energy.

Overall, I think the Circle+Bloom’s Energy for Empowerment Program is worth it. At $24 for an mp3 download or $29 for two CDs, the cost is reasonable. I can see myself using the sessions time and time again when I need a boost of energy. For less about the cost of a pedicure (who has time for that anyway?), you can pamper yourself at home many times over. As a bonus, you can hone your intuition and get in touch with your body as well!

I received the Circle+Bloom Energy for Empowerment Program to review, no other compensation was given, and the views expressed are my own.

Every so often we like to share with you the e-mails we receive from our customers. We like to give just a snippet into what keeps our energy and passion over the top! A simple cut and past from one of the many e-mails we receive! These e-mails put on a big smile on our faces, and a very warm feeling in the heart.

I just wanted to let you all know at Circle and Bloom that after a second IVF and using your PCOS and IVF program for the first time, we are finally pregnant!

Thank you so very much for guiding me and keeping me calm and occupied during some tough tough days. These programs are so special that I have just purchased the pregnant program and I am excited to get started and care for me and this new life.

Thank you, I have been on a long journey of healing and you program has brought everything together so beautifully.

OK, it’s still early in the pregnancy and you guys are part of a small group who know and I just needed to share with you how special I think you are.

Have fab day!

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