Fertility Road Issue 44 May/June 2018

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Liz Walton, now 48, had tried six rounds of
In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) and spent around
£30,000 trying to conceive.
But today she is the proud mother of two-yearold
Willow after getting pregnant naturallydespite
doctors saying the couple not have
children without medical intervention.
Liz, from Savery Street, Garren, said: “I thought
I was going through the menopause and was
shocked to learn I was in fact pregnant.
“I’d let go of our dream of having children.
I think because we were relaxed and finally
accepting of the situation, we were in fact ready
to have them.”
Liz, who got pregnant at the age of 45, has gone
on to work with 14 women across 3 continents -
and they have all since had children.
Liz, an international leader and coach, said: “I
now focus on helping women who are having
difficulties getting pregnant for various reasons,
as well as unexplained fertility.
“It is because of my own experience and learning
that I can support and help women so they receive
the best help to get their desired outcome.”
Liz techniques such as hypnotherapy and
a healing process called The Journey to
help women tackle stress, which is often an
underlying factor in being unable to conceive.
Liz, who has over 20 years’ experience in the
therapeutic industry, said: “Constant stress shuts
down all our reproductive systems and sometimes
what we want most can be pushed further away.
“I can’t guarantee the support will result in a
couple getting pregnant, though there have been
many cases.
“But what I can enable is a shift, which
allows people to find peace and see beyond just
having children.”
Liz, who previously ran a complementary
health practice in Canberra called Body and
Mind, has returned from a seven years in the
UK, where she cared for ailing mother, who has
sadly since died.
She has set up Liz Walton Therapies and
Coaching to help people deal with a range of
conditions, including anxiety, depression, grief
and infertility.
For more information about Liz’s work, visit
lizwalton.org or call +61 0432 427 464.
Liz's story:
Liz and her husband, Greg, 43, married in 2005
and tried to have children soon after.
But they later learned Greg had anti-sperm
antibodies, which can cause sperm to stick
together and reduce movement - preventing
them from fertilising the egg.
They had IVF for over eight years and were told
their chances of conceiving with treatment were
still less than five per cent.
Liz was devastated each time it was unsuccessful
and the stress put a strain on the couple.
Liz said: “We got married and thought ‘OK, let’s
get pregnant. But a couple of years later it still
hadn’t happened.
“We grow up believing we are put on this earth
to have children and when I couldn’t, I ended up
attacking myself. I asked myself why I couldn’t
and what had I done wrong.
“I was devastated each time the treatment
failed. It tore me part and I felt annihilated. I
kept thinking ‘how can I fix this?’ It became an
obsession and drove me crazy.”
Liz piled on weight because of the stress –
gaining nearly two kilos after each course of
treatment, going from 67kilos to 75 kilos.
Liz said: “Being told ‘no, it isn’t happened,’ would be
stressful and I’d often go into a bad mood. The stress
was overwhelming and I turned to food for comfort.”
Rather than save for a home, they used all the
money they had to pay for treatment.
But when Liz’s sister-in-law fell pregnant it was a
turning point for Liz, who now past 40 was told her
chances of conceiving through IVF was now unlikely.
Liz, who used to run her own holistic complementary
health practice, turned to coaching.
She said: “I took part in an emotional healing
workshop and it brought our relationship to a
whole new level. It also helped me to cope much
better with the situation.
“I didn’t want to be a person full of bitterness
and I realised I needed to let go. It had got to the
point I wasn’t living my life, but holding out for
something I couldn’t have.
“I cried for weeks, but it was something I had to
do. It’s better than shutting down and turning
to eating or drinking – which is something I
would have done in the past.”
Liz worked with therapists to come to terms
with infertility and now offers counselling and
coaching to other women in a similar situation.
She said: “I think there were many reasons I got
pregnant when I did. Partly, Greg turned 40 and
he started to review his life - realising he wanted
children in it.
“I believe our mind-set can influence our bodies
and I learned tools to become mentally and
emotionally healthier. Something must have
changed for both of us and we were finally ready
for this.”
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