Alice Domar, Ph.D., began working with a group of women experiencing infertility early in her career at the Harvard Medical School. When she found that women in her infertility support group became pregnant at an astounding rate, she didn't even believe the results herself. Domar went on to found and direct the Mind/Body Program for infertility. Her work has changed how infertility is viewed and treated.

Domar found that women experiencing infertility were as depressed as women who had been diagnosed with a chronic illness. She developed a program that helped them work through the depression, restoring hope to their lives and repairing tattered marriages. As these women restored their faith in themselves, nearly one third of them became pregnant.

Domar's advice is far different than the simplistic "relax and you'll get pregnant" platitudes offered by those who do not understand infertility. While she does focus on how stress and depression change our fertility, she also looks at the real aspects of how emotion changes our bodies. We all know people who are total stress-magnets who get pregnant easily - so stress alone is not the culprit in infertility.

Domar's book offers a look at how strong emotions can impair fertility. Her writing shows her deep caring and understanding of the rigors of infertility treatments, depression and the longing for the elusive goal of motherhood.

Reading this book may not get you pregnant, but whatever the results of your fertility journey, you will have new tools and newfound strength to cope. Domar has written several books on women's health and how emotion impacts our bodies. I highy recommend any of her books. I have read several and have found them to be very useful in my infertility journey.