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Hi, I am Dr. Mark Gilbert, the director of the Mind-Body Medicine Skills Group Program, here at the center. In the program, which is 10 weeks long, three hours a week, and plus a one-month and a four-month followup, we split each of those sessions into an educational, experiential, and group process piece. In the educational piece, people learn about everything from the history of the field to relaxation and imagery exercises, the effects of spirituality and health in a generic way. They learn about emotional identification and expression that helps health about how do we think their lives and their attitudes, about themselves, and their problems as well as we have pieces on sound and music and health, on humor and health, all of this being evidence based through the research to show that in fact these components help people to heal. We also have experiential exercises where people learn meditation and relaxation techniques, biofeedback, imagery exercises, and other techniques that will help them to cope, and just as importantly, there is a group process where patients learn to be able to share and identify emotional, cognitive, spiritual, or sensory awareness issues that will help them in healing when they are going through this kind of stress. We have found through research that these programs over 15 years have helped people not only to decrease their anxiety and depression, but also helped them to reestablish purpose in their life and to help them to get through their problem struggling with infertility in a way that enhances relationships as well as their own individual sense of well being.