INCIID Looks at Infertility and Intimacy

April 12, 2011 WITH INCIID YOU ARE NOT ALONE

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Feature Article

Infertility and Intimacy by Helen Adrienne, LCSW, BCD

Stress and Acupuncture by Dr. Marc Sklar

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In this issue INCIID takes a look at infertility's effect on intimacy.

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An Intimate Look at Intimacy
by Helen Adrienne, LCSW, BCD

As you well know, infertility is a life crisis of major proportions that leaves no area of life untouched. Furthermore, studies have revealed that infertility escalates levels of stress to be on a par with the diagnosis of cancer or HIV/AIDS.
Stress is disruptive. Worse, it is disruptive at a point in time when meeting the enormous challenges of infertility happens best from a place of solidity, serenity and stability. The stress of infertility could shake loose the most solid, disrupt the most serene, and destabilize the most unflappable. Continue reading here:

Acupuncture, Stress and
Reproductive Function

By Marc Sklar, LAc, DA (RI), FABORM

Acupuncture originated centuries ago and is the means by which practitioners of Oriental Medicine tap into the vascular systems that enlivens and runs through each person. There are classical entry points (acu-points) along these lines called meridians. The stimulation of a combination of exact points using ultra fine filaments will cause the body to correct the flow of blood and oxygen, sometimes called Qi. Classic texts describe 365 points located on meridians that are mapped onto the surface of the body

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