Calm and Conceive: Holding Hope is a supportive offering for women and men walking the emotionally complex path of fertility, longing, uncertainty, and loss. This is not a book of quick solutions or pressure-based methods. It is a gentle, grounding space to land when your body is tired, your heart is tender, and your nervous system has been living in "trying" for too long. Rather than pushing for outcomes, this book centers emotional safety, self-trust, and the wisdom of the body-inviting you to soften, to feel, and to reconnect with your own inner knowing.
Through compassionate perspective, somatic-inspired practices, and invitations to reflect, Deane Pope offers a way of being with the fertility journey that honors the full emotional spectrum: hope and grief, longing and fear, love and exhaustion.
The focus is not on fixing yourself, but on meeting yourself with kindness, allowing what has been held inside to be gently expressed, and creating inner conditions where the body can finally exhale.
This book speaks to:
- Those navigating fertility treatment or uncertainty
- Those carrying silent grief or complicated hope
- Couples learning to stay emotionally connected through strain
- Anyone longing for a gentler, more humane way to walk this season
At its core, Calm and Conceive is about restoring trust-trust in your body, your timing, your emotions, and your capacity to hold yourself through whatever unfolds.
It does not promise outcomes.
It offers presence.
It does not demand positivity.
It makes room for truth.
Hope, here, is not a goal to achieve.
It is something you are allowed to hold-softly, safely, and in your own way.
