• The Rise Method™

    Holistic fertility support

Overview

Emotional Preparation for IVF

So You Enter Your Next Cycle Steady, Supported and Ready

Most women enter IVF exhausted, overwhelmed and emotionally depleted.

The RISE Method™ is Australia’s first dedicated framework designed to prepare your mind, body and nervous system before treatment begins — so you enter IVF with clarity, confidence and emotional integrity.

Take the IVF Readiness Scorecard

Why Choose Margaret

  • Blends science and soul

    Combining neuroscience, mindset strategies, and holistic practices for whole-person support..

  • Safe, trauma-aware coaching

    A calm, non-judgmental space to explore your emotions without pressure.

  • Framework designed for fertility

    ALIGN was created specifically for women navigating fertility challenges, not as a general coaching model.

  • Experience of healing after depletion

    Having faced PCOS, loss, and IVF herself, Margaret understands what it means to rebuild from exhaustion.

  • Focus on emotional sovereignty

    Success isn’t measured only by conception, but by how grounded, resilient, and empowered you feel.

  • Tools that last a lifetime

    Beyond fertility, the strategies you’ll learn for calming your nervous system, reframing stress, and reconnecting with yourself will continue to support you through pregnancy, parenthood, and life’s challenges.

Why Emotional Preparation Matters

IVF requires more than medical treatment. It requires emotional readiness.

Most women spend years preparing their bodies for IVF.
Almost none prepare emotionally.

But emotional depletion, fear, hypervigilance and unresolved grief can quietly affect:

  • decision-making
  • communication with partners
  • how your body experiences stress
  • your ability to cope with uncertainty
  • your sense of identity and self-worth

The RISE Method™ was created to fill the emotional gap left in standard IVF care — so no woman walks into a cycle feeling desperate, disconnected or alone.

Who the Rise Method™ is For

The RISE Method™ is designed specifically for women who are:

  • preparing for an IVF cycle in the next 2–6 months
  • emotionally drained after losses or a failed round
  • stuck in catastrophic thinking or fear of repeating the past
  • fighting their body, not partnering with it
  • high-functioning on the outside but collapsing internally
  • tired of piecing together advice with no real structure
  • wanting to enter their next cycle from strength, not survival

If you’ve spent years investing financially, physically and emotionally… but have never prepared emotionally, this framework is for you.

Why I Created the Rise Method

After a decade of infertility, multiple losses, medical complications, and emotional burnout, I entered IVF at 40 from a place of readiness, not desperation — and everything changed.

I spent years rebuilding my emotional baseline, repairing my relationship with my body, and learning how the nervous system responds to fertility stress.

The RISE Method™ is the framework I wish I had at the beginning.  It’s the structured, evidence-informed emotional preparation system that was missing from my journey — and from every fertility clinic.

It integrates:

  • lived experience
  • neuroscience
  • emotional regulation
  • coaching psychology
  • identity repair
  • behaviour change
  • nervous system work

into one practical, compassionate, step-by-step approach.

The Four Phases of the Rise Method™

A structured emotional-preparation framework designed for IVF.

8 weeks. 4 phases. A complete emotional readiness system.

PHASE 1 — RELEASE

Weeks 1–2: Clear emotional weight so you don’t carry it into your next cycle.

  • Process your story safely
  • Identify emotional triggers
  • Reduce mental overload
  • Rebuild emotional grounding
  • Begin shifting from fear-based patterns

Outcome: Emotional weights are identified and released instead of carried into treatment.

PHASE 2 — INTEGRATE

Weeks 3–4: Build body partnership and rewire fear-based thinking.

  • Repair your relationship with your body
  • Learn nervous system regulation tools
  • Introduce the Faith Over Fear Reframe Protocol
  • Build trust and internal safety

Outcome: Your body shifts from enemy → partner, creating a calmer internal baseline.

PHASE 3 — STRENGTHEN

Weeks 5–6: Anchor your support systems and communication.

  • Partner alignment scripts
  • Boundaries for emotional protection
  • Support Bus mapping exercise
  • Stage-specific coping tools

Outcome: You no longer walk this journey alone or unsupported.

PHASE 4 — EQUIP

Weeks 7–8: Create your complete IVF Emotional Readiness Plan.

  • 20+ personalised tools for each IVF stage
  • Both-outcome planning to reduce fear
  • Final emotional readiness assessment
  • Your personalised 20–30 page IVF Emotional Readiness Plan

Outcome: You enter IVF calm, prepared, mentally steady and emotionally supported.

The Transformation

Most women begin IVF emotional readiness at 3.2/10.

By the end of the RISE Method™, the average emotional readiness score rises to 7.8/10 — a 143% improvement in:

  • emotional resilience
  • fear regulation
  • body connection
  • confidence
  • clarity
  • communication
  • both-outcome preparation

This is not about “positive thinking.”
This is about preparing emotionally, mentally and physiologically for the demands of IVF.

What You Receive

  • 8 weeks of personalised emotional-preparation coaching
  • Nervous system tools for each IVF stage
  • Body partnership practices
  • Fear-to-Faith reframing tools
  • Partner scripts and communication templates
  • Support System Map
  • Both-outcome planning protocol
  • Your personalised IVF Emotional Readiness Plan (20–30 pages)
  • Access to specialised resources, worksheets and journals

This is a complete emotional-care framework — not generic mindset coaching.

Why This Framework Works

The RISE Method™ blends:

  • neuroscience
  • nervous system regulation
  • emotional resilience training
  • cognitive reframing
  • identity repair
  • grief integration
  • lived IVF experience
  • coaching psychology
  • spiritual grounding (optional)

It is designed to be gentle, structured and trauma-aware.

Clinics focus on science. This method focuses on you — the woman going through it all.

  • IVF Emotional Support

FAQs

The RISE Method™ isn’t generic mindset work or counselling. It’s a structured, eight-week framework grounded in neuroscience, coaching psychology, and lived IVF experience. You’ll receive step-by-step tools to regulate your nervous system, rebuild emotional strength, and prepare mentally and physically for treatment — with measurable outcomes.

Yes. While it’s ideal to start before your next cycle (2–6 months out), many women join mid-treatment and still experience meaningful emotional stabilisation, better decision-making, and reduced stress. The framework meets you where you are.

Absolutely. The RISE Method™ was designed for women who’ve experienced emotional depletion, grief, or fear of repeating the past. Every phase includes gentle tools for integrating loss, restoring safety, and rebuilding trust in your body and your journey.

Not at all. The RISE Method™ complements medical care — it’s the emotional counterpart to your clinical preparation. You’ll continue working with your fertility specialist while building emotional readiness in parallel.

That’s completely fine. Spiritual grounding is an optional component. The core framework is evidence-based and grounded in neuroscience, emotional regulation, and practical coaching — adaptable to every belief system.

The RISE Method™ is delivered privately, one-to-one, to ensure full confidentiality and personalisation. Every session, tool, and resource is tailored to your unique story, emotional state, and IVF timeline.

Most women report a significant rise in emotional readiness — from 3.2/10 to around 7.8/10 — along with increased calm, confidence, and clarity. The aim is not perfection, but emotional steadiness: entering your next cycle ready, resilient, and supported.

Wondering where your emotional readiness stands?

Start by taking the IVF Readiness Scorecard — it takes 7 minutes and gives you a personalised breakdown of the 10 emotional domains that shape your IVF experience.

Take the IVF Readiness Scorecard

Prefer to talk directly?

You can book a free IVF Confidence & Clarity Call.

Book a Free Call

Testimonials

Working with Margaret has been truly impactful. Our sessions gave me a deeper understanding of myself and the confidence to make more intentional choices. I now feel clearer about my goals and more motivated to pursue them.

Margaret is a skilled and compassionate listener who offers practical tools and insights to help cut through the noise and navigate challenges with greater clarity and purpose.

She brings both heart and wisdom and I highly recommend Margaret to anyone on a personal growth journey.

Working with Margaret was a deeply personal and empowering experience. Through her coaching, I discovered parts of myself I hadn’t recognised before and identified areas I wanted to grow. The techniques she used helped me tap into both conscious and unconscious ways of supporting myself.

Each session was tailored to my needs, with clear explanations that made me feel safe and understood. Margaret helped me set realistic goals, and her caring accountability kept me focused and motivated week after week.

What stood out most was her genuine care – she made me feel truly seen and supported throughout the entire journey

My name is Ashley, I am a mum, Early Childhood Educator and a Circle of Security Parenting Facilitator.

Completing Margaret’s 8 week mindset course in March has utterly changed the way I perceive my capabilities as an entrepreneur. Before committing I felt completely overwhelmed and clouded without a sense of direction. Margaret came to my rescue with easy to implement strategies helping me gain clarity and turn inward to gain trust and connection to the answers that were already there, leaving me with a consistent feeling of alignment to my truth.

Each week I felt excited to learn more about the new tools I was gaining, but more importantly to have someone who understood and could help me unlock the parts and paths I couldn’t see.

Having had a few weeks to let it all set in, I have clarity about what my business is, a roadmap to how to get there and a blueprint that weaves strategies to ensure my feminine essence and fire is the foundation of my business venture.

Every woman wanting to shift brain fog, gain clarity and empower herself should start with this 8 week course

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