Navigating Infertility

If you’re currently considering using an egg donor or you’ve been advised by your doctor you need to use an egg donor, and you’re feeling totally overwhelmed by the prospect, you’re not alone. Turning to egg donation to have a baby involves complex emotional, psychological, and practical considerations. There is the grief around the loss of your DNA, worries about whether you’ll still feel like th...

The struggle with New Year when you’re going through infertility can be hard. As everyone around you ushers in The New Year with celebrations and plans for the year ahead, for anyone going through infertility, it’s common for feelings such as uncertainty and frustration to surface, alongside a sense of futility about investing any time in setting goals or making plans for the future. This can be d...

There are many different situations that call for boundaries to be set on your fertility journey. Whether it’s unsolicited advice, insensitive comments or needing to manage people’s expectations of you around how much you’re able to show up in your life. But it’s a very common tendency to want to avoid having boundary-setting conversations out of fear damaging the relationship and creating additio...

Pregnancy announcements are one of the things that any woman going through infertility dreads. Not only do they amplify the gulf between other people’s joy and your harsh reality, but there is an expectation that you should feel joyous about the news as well, particularly if it’s a close friend or family member. This sets off a cascade of emotions, such as shame and guilt , that compound feelings...

A common theme that I see amongst women going through infertility is how their self-worth is significantly impacted by what they’re going through. There are many aspects of infertility that contribute to low self-worth. There’s the societal messages that cause women to feel less worthy if they are not mothers, the sense of shame and guilt women feel if they can’t provide a child for their partner...

There is a unique form of heartache associated with a failed fertility cycle. Aside from the significant financial investment, there is a huge amount of mental, physical and emotional investment for each cycle. Add to this the challenge of trying to fit everything that a fertility cycle demands of you on a practical level in amongst showing up as you normally would at work and in your everyday lif...

When you’re going through infertility, it can turn your life upside down on every level. Whether it’s the roller coaster of emotions, the constant stream of thoughts ranging from rumination over what you could have done differently through to fears about how things might pan out. Add to this all of the medical appointments, the health practitioners, the invasive fertility treatments that need to b...

The grief of infertility that women go through on their fertility journey is something that’s so hard to contend. It’s intense, it’s overwhelming and it’s all-consuming. But what makes it even harder to deal with is the fact that not only is infertility grief something that most women have never been taught the skills to deal with, but it’s a completely unique form of grief that society doesn’t un...

If you ask a woman going through infertility to name an emotion that describes how she feels, one of the most common emotions cited is stress. That’s why learning the skills to cope with all of the stress that accompanies a challenging fertility journey is so vital. The problem for most women struggling to have a baby is that they have never been taught the life skills required to deal with the ki...

Navigating a challenging infertility journey throws most people a curve-ball because it demands the kind of life skills that most women going through infertility have never been taught. This is really challenging because trying to conceive and have a baby already demands so much from women, on top of needing to function in their daily life, so having to then research, learn and adopt skills to sta...

One of the most common questions I get asked as an infertility coach is “What’s all the fuss about meditation for infertility?” followed closely by “What do I do when I’ve tried meditating but can’t?” Tune into this episode to learn about what both the research AND my first-hand experience with meditation on my fertility journey reveals about the profound benefits of meditation for infertility. I’...

Welcome to very first episode of the Navigating Infertility podcast! In this episode, I’m going to share with you a little bit about my story and what I went through on my 10-year journey of infertility. I’ll also provide insight around how my fraught quest to become a mother forced me to make changes in myself and my life so I could feel joy and inner peace before I had my babies and what it was...