As the year starts to wind down, the festivities of the holiday season take hold. This period is full of excitement and beautiful things to celebrate. Yet, it can be a stressful and sad time too. Although you experience the longing for motherhood throughout the year, something about the holiday period can intensify that… Continue reading Subfertility and Setting Boundaries over the Holiday Period
Things I Learned from Being Infertile – A Retrospective View
It is often said that only hindsight is 20/20. This isn’t an entirely bad thing. A lot of times, knowing what will happen next would be a definite detraction from our lives. I mean, who’d care about the football match if we all knew who was going to win? The stock market would be useless. … Continue reading Things I Learned from Being Infertile – A Retrospective View
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Post-workout stretch
We’ve shared a few quick workouts but it is important to remember that before and after every workout, you MUST stretch ! It’s important for muscle strength and flexibility. Tense and contracted muscles can present as muscle ache and soreness and the stress can affect your fertility levels. So stretch it out 🙂
4 Neuroscientific Things To Do That Will Make You Happier in Infertility
Cheers, dear readers, Along the infertility journey, there are many unpredictable and often quite uncomfortable twists and turns. There are definitely days where all feelings of happiness felt like they had been swept away from me never to return – like a vacuum had sucked them from my soul. If you are a Harry… Continue reading 4 Neuroscientific Things To Do That Will Make You Happier in Infertility
Reaching Out and Sharing Stories as a Way To Heal
Cheers, dear readers, Last week I shared with you how amazing and transformational my recent weekend in Vancouver was with The Global Sisterhood. It was a joining together of what I hope will become a yearly gathering of amazing folks who are striving to make a difference while simultaneously sharing their stories of their… Continue reading Reaching Out and Sharing Stories as a Way To Heal
If at birth you don’t succeed …
Cheers, dear readers, This past weekend, I had the great opportunity and privilege to hear the incredible and inspiring Zack Anner speak at the World Domination Summit conference in Portland, Oregon – a conference that focuses on “living a remarkable life in a conventional world”. Zach is the author of the comedic memoir If… Continue reading If at birth you don’t succeed …
M.O.M. or “Mentors Of Many” Day (for many of us)
Cheers, dear readers! The time is upon us once again – the day in the United States when we recognize with love, adoration, and gratitude all mothers. During my childhood and a large portion of my adult life, I spent this day celebrating my own mother (and my maternal grandmother when she was alive).… Continue reading M.O.M. or “Mentors Of Many” Day (for many of us)
Is infertility a disease ?
Cheers, dear readers, Cathy here with the next installment of our infertility story. To make sure I state this at least once: We know that our story is simply ONE couple’s journey, and there are so many, unfortunately untold stories out there of many, many other couples. We offer ours as a way to be… Continue reading Is infertility a disease ?
Create a Playlist to Get Pregnant
Music therapy is a real life thing. Real life therapy. Unless we have been living under a rock we have heard the expressions, “Feel the music.” “Move to the music.” “Get lost in the music.” There are so many stellar quotes about music. “One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no… Continue reading Create a Playlist to Get Pregnant