Category: Slow Swimmers & Fried Eggs

Cheers, dear readers, Last week, I excitedly shared that I would be meeting some amazing women for our first ever Global Sisterhood Summit – a meeting of the minds of various brave women who have survived their own ordeals with being childless not by choice. Many of us had undergone fertility treatments to try to… Continue reading Surviving Loss Together – The Power of Community & Awareness

Cheers, dear readers, Recently I’ve been writing about a concept known as Emotional Labor. And now that the concept is at the forefront of my mind, I see it everywhere. It’s like when you buy a purple car, and then you start seeing them everywhere on the road. Where did they all come from? I… Continue reading Empathy and the Power of One Question

Hi Internets! Eric here again, and I’m not going to lie, this week is kind of a tough one. It’s been tough for me to write, and it may be kind of tough to read. But I think it’s a subject worth talking about. As many of you have probably heard, there’s a lot of… Continue reading The words we choose (THEY MATTER!)

Cheers, dear readers,   Last week I shared with you a very difficult moment that I experienced where I emotionally “fell down”. My close friend had just told me that she had gotten pregnant immediately and extremely easily. She was over the moon, excited as well as shocked at how swiftly she had conceived. It… Continue reading Own Your Story So That It Doesn’t Own You

Cheers, dear readers, I recently had the opportunity to watch a live presentation by Dr. Brené Brown whose work on empathy I have lightly referenced here at SS&FE. She is an American scholar, author, public speaker, and is currently a research professor in Houston, Texas. She also has two New York Times Bestsellers under her… Continue reading Bravery, Courage, Practicing Empathy and Rising Strong After We Fall

Cheers, dear readers,   I am so proud and happy to share with you that a member of a community that I am involved with – The Global Sisterhood – has had the opportunity to give a TedX Talk surrounding women’s struggle around childlessness and motherhood. I have watched Jody Day’s outstanding presentation video three… Continue reading From Where I Stand – TedX Talk by Jody Day on Disenfranchised Childless Women

  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

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

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

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