Fearless Birthing: Clear Your Fears For a Positive Birth

Does the thought of childbirth scare you? Are you fearing the countdown to your due date? Discover a new birth preparation approach to help guide you from conception to childbirth with peace of mind. Have your pregnancy fears left you stressed out and anxious? Are you looking for an alternative to hypnobirthing? Author Alexia Leachman used to feel the same way until she discovered a technique that helped her overcome her own fear of pregnancy and childbirth (known as tokophobia). Since sharing it through her award-nominated Fear Free Childbirth podcast, she's helped thousands of women to shift their mindset around birth, and now she's here to help you too! Fearless Birthing: Clear Your Fears for a Positive Birth is your essential road map to confront and conquer the fears that stand between you and motherhood. Through Leachman's unique fear-clearance method, you'll learn how to mentally and emotionally prepare for the birth of your bundle of joy. By ridding your fears, you'll turn potential trauma into an empowering experience. In Fearless Birthing, you'll discover: - The two types of fear surrounding childbirth and how to manage them effectively- How to approach your pregnancy with mindful reflection in anticipation of motherhood- Why your due date can be a huge source of stress, and how to avoid it- The 5-step Head Trash Clearance Method, which you can use to rid your fears and stresses- How to prepare for birth so that you feel positive about it, whatever the outcomeFearless Birthing is a must-have guide for expectant mothers. If you like step-by-step instructions, no-nonsense advice from a leading expert, and access to a wealth of online resources, then you'll love this book. Buy Fearless Birthing to break down the barriers between you and your bundle of joy today!“A step on from hypnobirthing. Best book I’ve read about birthing and this is my third baby. It’s the one book I’d recommend."“I absolutely loved it and found it to be one of the only practical books on birthing that I have read.”"Fearless Birthing is a must read for all mums-to-be who are looking to create a positive mindset for their birth. Alongside Alexia's work on her podcast and website, this book details a unique method of clearing fears in preparation for childbirth. It is easy to read and to follow along with the clearance method and also provides a lot of background info on the technique. Alexia's work has helped me immensely in my birth preparation - truly a fantastic guide!"“I really enjoyed reading this book. I especially loved learning about the fear-clearance technique. I am a mental health professional and really enjoyed exploring alternatives to traditional therapies in order to overcome fears. I've done one fear clearing since reading the book and was amazed at the response I got. I can't wait to be able to do more clearings in order to prepare for my upcoming birth.”“Fearless Birthing has been so helpful in learning to confront and clear my fears. Not only that, but it really helped me to pinpoint exactly what those fears were to begin with which I previously couldn’t even figure out. Alexia provides a great deal of helpful information about pregnancy, labor, and childbirth and I loved reading about her personal experiences. I found this book very empowering as I truly believe using the methods in it will help me to make the right decisions about my labor and birth and it has already helped me feel like my body is not only capable of this but made to do this. I plan to continue to refer to this book and to work on fear clearing as I finish out these last few weeks of pregnancy. I am now actually looking forward to going into labor with confidence and much less “head trash”.”

Alexia Leachman is a therapeutic coach and the host of the Fear Free Childbirth podcast, which has passed two million downloads across 180 countries.
She came to this work the hard way. After her first miscarriage she felt relief rather than grief, and knew something was wrong. What she had was tokophobia - an extreme fear of pregnancy and birth - and at the time there was almost nothing available to help her. So she built her own way through it, using herself as the guinea pig. She cleared her fear during her second trimester and went on to have two fearless births.
When word got out, pregnant women started emailing to ask how she'd done it. There were enough of them that writing a book turned out to be quicker than answering them all. That book is Fearless Birthing, and the method in it is the same one she now teaches to women and to the midwives, doulas and therapists who support them.
Since then her work has grown into a wider body of research on Reproductive Anxiety Disorder (RAD), the subject of her later book Betrayed by Your Biology. Alexia is French and British, and lives in the south of France with her two daughters.