Manual № 53 · Infertility and the trying-to-conceive years

StillTrying

The manual for infertility and the trying-to-conceive years.

The two-week wait, the negative test, the baby shower. A manual for enduring it.

12 modules — for the person or couple living inside infertility

  1. 01A Loss With Nothing to Bury
  2. 02Your Own Warning Signs, and the Plan
  3. 03The Month, Mapped
  4. 04The Two-Week Wait
  5. 05The Negative, and the Day After
  6. 06Other People Keep Having Babies
  1. 07Two People, Two Kinds of Coping
  2. 08Sex on a Schedule
  3. 09Deciding About Treatment When You Are Exhausted
  4. 10The Parts People Do Not Ask About
  5. 11Deciding When to Stop, and What Comes Next
  6. 12Staying Yourself Through It

Two editions

Themanual,orthemanualand the toolkit.

Standard edition

$39

The full program: all 12 modules, with the exercises, logs, and checklists that save as you go. Everything you need to do the work.

Elite edition · most complete

$69

Everything in Standard, plus The Toolkit, 14 techniques drawn from across the evidence base, each labeled with where it comes from and how good the evidence for it actually is, to use alongside this program rather than instead of it. With original diagrams throughout.

Start with Standard if you would rather. You can upgrade to Elite at any time for the $30 difference, and nothing you have written is lost. And once you own one manual, every other one is 20% off.

Inside The Toolkit

  1. 01Reading Your Own Month
  2. 02Willingness Instead of Bracing
  3. 03Getting Off the Hook of a Thought
  4. 04What This Was All For
  5. 05Doing Before Feeling
  6. 06Testing It Instead of Arguing With It
  7. 07The Shapes the Thinking Takes
  1. 08Turning the Body Down
  2. 09When the Feeling Is Too Big
  3. 10Saying It So It Can Be Heard
  4. 11The Voice You Would Use for Someone Else
  5. 12Deciding When You Cannot Know
  6. 13Writing It Down Properly
  7. 14The Plan for the Next Hard Day

Educational content — not therapy, diagnosis, or treatment, and not a substitute for a clinician when one is needed. Every manual opens with a safety page. If you are thinking about suicide, call or text 988 now.