IVF Failed You - The "So Now What?" Podcast

What it means to notice our thoughts or notice our beliefs. Those who are part of the Belief Reinvention Experience know what it's like to go through and challenge yourself in notice some of the beliefs that you're currently having about your life.  You can believe differently about your life and future if you're not going to be a mom. Why that is important? The beliefs you have about yourself are...

After multiple IUI and IVF cycles, my weight gain was prominent.  Throughout my 7 year journey of medicated cycles, I packed on an extra 25lbs.  When my fertility journey ended and I remained childless, my weight gain stuck around.  Food became a comfort to me and I used it as a way to ease my sadness and fill time in my day when I was feeling lonely.  When I looked in the mirror and saw a body th...

Hello, beautiful people. How is everyone this beautiful summer day, I am just coming off a weekend of celebrating a birthday. And if you are like me, there has been many years that I have dreaded my birthday, years of going through infertility treatments and looking at a date on the calendar and getting very triggered about all of the things that were coming up for me. Because birthdays can feel v...

Hello, beautiful people, I am coming to you with the hugest smile on my face. Because we just got done celebrating our first annual Other's Day brunch in Chicago. It was such a magnificent experience. And I wanted to talk a little bit with you about the importance and the need, we each have for community. So if you've been listening to the Sonos podcast for a while, you might know my story about t...

Hello beautiful people with Mother's Day going on May 1 In the UK, and on May 8 here in the United States, there are a ton of emotions coming up for those of us in the infertility community. And I know for me that there is this jolt, I feel when I'm walking through a grocery store or through Target or, you know, driving down the street and seeing ads that pop up on billboards. And I feel this jolt...

Hello, beautiful people! In this episode, we're diving into the unique experience of National Infertility Awareness Week for those who've been through fertility treatments but are living without children. Join me as I share the significance of raising awareness for infertility while recognizing the often overlooked journey of those who didn't leave treatment with the family they dreamed of. We're...

Hello, my beautiful people. How is everyone this beautiful spring day? Hope everyone had a lovely Easter and Passover, whatever it is, you're celebrating this time of year, we had a beautiful celebration for what I call Easter 1.0. I have the good benefit of celebrating 2 Easters this year. One that we did this past Sunday with my husband's family, we had our first celebration and our new place. A...

Hey, beautiful people. How was everyone this week? You all know that I was at the Life Coach School mastermind meeting. I was in Austin, Texas. It was fabulous. And we'll get to a little bit about what the meeting was about a little bit later. But I wanted to talk about a follow up to last week's podcast. How did everyone do with the idea of sitting on a cloud? And feeling unconnected from the per...

Welcome back to Episode 30!!  30 weeks, we have been meeting here on Tuesdays to get a little slice of newness to apply and new things to implement in our lives. I guess they say time flys by when you're having fun, because it has been so fun and such a huge pleasure through these last 30 weeks to connect with so many of you who have reached out and provided thoughts and feedback and questions whe...

When you look at your past, what story are you telling yourself?  I recently reconnected with someone I met when I represented the state of Indiana back in 1996 at the Cherry Blossom  Festival.  I came across some old pics when we were moving and decided I would reach reached out.    I see myself doing a lot more of that lately.  I ask myself, if I don't do something now when am I planning to do i...

I am recording from my new apartment we moved to last week, everything went great, except I cannot find my headset that I normally record my podcast on. So I'm going to apologize ahead of time if my sound quality is kind of janky this week.    In last week's episode , we talked about what we have, maybe some of it is necessary, maybe a lot of it in our lives is just robust and things that we don't...

Hello, my beautiful people. I am recording today in the midst of moving boxes and bubble wrap and all kinds of things to prepare for our move.  In Episode 25 , we talked about clearing the clutter and how I went through all the closets and went through all the things in my life that I have that I'm just not using anymore. Almost every day, I have been going and dropping things off to local chariti...

I feel so fabulous to be back here for Episode 26 with all of you because that marks exactly six months of me doing weekly podcasts, these last 26 weeks I have showed up for myself, for you. And for the community that is just really looking to learn how to deal differently and feel differently about an inability to have children. I want to thank you whether this is your first episode or your 26th...

The next few episodes are going to be covering moving and change movement in our surroundings and the things that are around us. Because I've had moving on my mind. If you've been following on Facebook, I did a live last week talking about some of the anxiety and some of the anxiousness I've been having around moving. But my husband and I are moving out of our home and going into a condo and stayi...

I want to talk a little bit about this transition that we go through, or this obstacles that it seems as though we're faced with. And for me, it took a long time to put these thoughts into words. I recently had a get together with a friend that I've known for a very long time, who doesn't live in the Chicagoland area. And he happened to be in town and we grabbed dinner the other night and just kin...

Thanks for joining us back at the So Now What Podcast. And this brings me to the culmination of what I would call a mini lesson. If you're part of my membership, or a client of mine, you know that I like to segment my content and teach it to you in a lesson form so that each week you can build on something and implement it in your life. So this is the combination of some pretty important foundatio...

This week we're going to learn how to pull out the facts in your story  so you can create new and powerful thoughts that motivate you to take action towards your goals.    In episode 20 of the So Now What Podcast  we focused on identifying what is true and what is just a thought.  This is an important distinction to make because you will often have thoughts that you believe are 100 percent true an...

Why is it so hard to think 'Positively"? When we start to become aware of the thoughts/stories we have vs the facts, it can be easy to judge yourself.  To be embarrassed that you are thinking the thoughts you are thinking about things that are facts.  When you realize that you don't have to think about a circumstance the way you always have or were raised or conditioned to, there's a sense of libe...

Let's talk about stories (thoughts) versus facts (circumstances).  Because we lived it, many of us can share a story about our infertility.  All of us think that our stories are true.  We think that we are just relaying the information about our stories in a way that seem right to us. They're just observations about our experiences. We don't understand that the way that we interpret the world is n...

Ar you searching to learn how to love your life again after infertility and IVF treatments have ended? It's something I hear so commonly from my clients, "I want to love my life again". I know it sounds so innocent, and it sounds so helpful and healing and navigating infertility and the months and the years we've focused on having a baby can really pull us away from enjoying our life. I'm absolute...

I am so exceptionally grateful for the community that has followed me on this journey that's encouraged me on this journey and has watched me grow in 2021. For many I know it was such an exceptionally challenging year. And for me, it was as well. But I chose at the end of this year to go through and list. Everything that I tried, accomplished, thought about, took a stab at - literally everything t...

We made it through the Christmas holidays. I had a really beautiful holiday. It was small, but it was, something very magical. I think a lot of it has to do with the thoughts I chose to think about myself this holiday. I did not wake up on Christmas morning with this empty pit in my stomach. I woke up feeling grateful for the love I have with my husband, the family I have to share it with. The mem...

Download your FREE version of the "Guide to Meaningful Holidays". https://stitchcoaching.com/holiday-workbook/ Hello, beautiful people. I hope everyone is enjoying this glorious time of year. I know for some, this year can be a little bit more spiky than most, with all the things going on in the world and health concerns and families not coming together as they normally would. And add that on top...

on this week's podcast, I'm going to talk to you about what's wrong with being sad. Okay, you ready? I'll cut to the chase and tell you in one word. What's wrong with being sad? Nothing. There is absolutely nothing not one thing wrong with being sad around the holidays. Yet somehow we have this level of discomfort with feeling sadness, and I know I get it. We judge ourselves when we aren't all smi...

What are you waiting for? just got back from Mexico - my first trip from Cov id. I was anxious about travel and risks associated with it. But, it was a milestone .. birthday for any very only sister and sibling. It was fantastic. Not only did this celebration involve my sister, it also included friends that have cbeen part of her life oven the last decade on so, but many have been part of our live...