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

Guide to Meaningful Holidays: Guide to Meaningful Holidays – Stitch Coaching | Higher Awareness Coaching It's hard to believe like we're looking at the beginning of December here and just a few days. Thank you all for the great feedback on the guide to meaningful holidays. So many of you actually used it to prep for your Thanksgiving holidays. And I just love getting to hear all about the feedback...

As we embark on the Thanksgiving holidays, and all the official hoopla that is about to start for the holiday season. many of us and many couples are starting to get anxious and this big pit in their stomachs, because the holidays bring up a huge sense of lacking. So we're going to be rolling into the celebration season and that many have coined to be full of gratitude, magic abundance. And we can...

Episode 11 Cozying Up With Our Infertility Buffers   Last week we talked about buffering in for many that was a bit of a Mind Blow. gotten some DMs, from folks with questions about buffering. And first let me tell you, thank you for your questions. I don't know if I talk as much as I should about how much I would love to hear from you. And really explored deeper some of the topics that we talked a...

I'm excited to learn what you were able to gather from last week's podcast, when we talked about failure, and how we have a fear of it. I worked with two clients this week that actually we're making pretty big decisions regarding career changes. And there's a lot of that indecision that comes in, am I making the right choice? Am I going to be happy? Am I going to be letting people down if I don't...

I am so glad that we're back together again this week to talk about a word that has so much power in our minds. And in this week's episode, I'd like to talk about what comes up for you, when you hear the word failed. There's a stigma around the word failed, and failure. We grow up conditioned, fearing failure. There's just like this huge taboo around the word. And I'd like to invite you to ask you...

You will never know love until you are a mother. Any baby news? Just relax and it will happen. Don't you want kids? When are you going to have a baby? Oh, I am so sorry. Do you have children? You can always adopt.   These are just a few of the words, phrases, comments people say that are huge triggers to women who have gone through infertility treatments and never had a child.  For a really long t...

I mentioned in last week's podcast that  I recently graduated from The Life Coach School with my Coach Certification. I am excited to celebrate it with all of you that have been cheering me on. It was a huge time commitment, a huge step for me to take and a huge investment that I took in myself. Since enrolling in The Life Coach School, I've had so many people have asked me ;What is a life coach?...

I mentioned in last week's podcast that  I recently graduated from The Life Coach School with my Coach Certification. I am excited to celebrate it with all of you that have been cheering me on. It was a huge time commitment, a huge step for me to take and a huge investment that I took in myself. Since enrolling in The Life Coach School, I've had so many people have asked me ;What is a life coach?...

Episode 6   Overview:   When was the last time you thought about relationships you have in your life?  Relationships with others can be active or just memories in our minds.  I recall the woman that comforted me when our Reproductive Endocrinologist called to say our embryo had trisomy 16, a chromosomal abnormality, after administering genetic testing.  We women without children worry we will grow...

We have done so much meaningful work, starting with Episode 2- you became more aware of the beliefs you have accumulated about yourself. You now know that you have the ability to notice them and not judge yourself for having them.  When you did the work in Episode 3 to question the validity of those beliefs and how they are serving you in your life today, you began to tap into the skills we have a...

It's so beautiful to be together again as we navigate the questions in our minds that have us asking "So Now What?"  In Episode 2 we went on the journey of beginning to build Awareness around the beliefs we have about ourselves. We asked ourselves 2 important questions to better understand what it is we are choosing to  believe in this present moment: What do you believe about yourself? What do yo...

In this episode, we explore the impact of beliefs formed during your fertility journey and how they shape your life after infertility. Lana guides you through understanding and challenging beliefs that may be holding you back from thriving. Drawing from her personal experience, she shares practical steps to let go of self-doubt, guilt, and the belief that IVF failure defines you. Through "paper th...

Today I would like to discuss What you Believe About your Life after IVF. When I was told that my one frozen embryo wasn't viable for implantation and further fertility treatments weren't recommended, I was crushed. In that instant, the life I believed I was destined to live had vanished. I believed that these years of fertility treatments and the thousands of dollars were all for nothing I believ...

In this first episode, we're diving into the heart of what it means to find purpose, joy, and fulfillment in a life without children after fertility treatments. This journey isn't an easy one, and if you're here, you probably understand just how complex and isolating it can feel. Like many of you, I always dreamed of being a mom—it was at the core of my identity. But after countless rounds of trea...