Find Space for Your Heart Here
In the midst of busy lives, uncertainty & so much more, I hope that this blog will be a soft landing space for you. Find some of my heart, stories, and resources below, and please reach-out to me however I can support you. If there are additional topics you’d like to see on the blog, please feel free to email me!
A Mosaic of Emotions: Motherhood & TTC All Over Again
Becoming a mom broke me open in ways I couldn’t have predicted.
48 hours after her birth, my daughter had some respiratory distress right as we were getting ready for hospital discharge. She was routed to the NICU for some additional monitoring, and I remember sitting cross legged in the chair next to her isolette, sobbing. I turned to my husband and told him that all of a sudden, it felt like my heart was living outside of my body.
Are We Just Standing Still?
I think Infertility can often feel like a complete and utter stand-still.
Infertility takes away a lot of the control, the planning, the timelines that we dream about. It leaves us feeling overwhelmed, asking questions that have no easy answers, wondering if we have the strength to keep going when all we want to do is quit. Infertility makes me feel like the world is passing me by. That all of the things I wanted are just beyond my reach, all while I watch others seemingly celebrate every milestone I’m still waiting for.
This season, I urge you to acknowledge your feelings about Infertility.
Infertility & Intimacy
How TTC and Fertility Treatments can Change Everything (& what you can do about it!)
Before I started TTC…
I didn’t know that trying to have a baby, really really trying - it wasn’t all fun and games.
It didn’t necessarily mean better or more frequent sex with my partner. I didn’t know that struggling to conceive would impact our intimacy significantly. That failing to get pregnant would challenge the way we connected physically.
Infertility in a Pandemic
Infertility is already unpredictable
Infertility comes with so much unpredictability to start. Then you’re forced to add in these “wildly unprecedented” times, and you’re left with a literal storm of questions. Of unknowns. Of silence.
When and why and how and where become whether and if and what if and even oh no.
It’s exhausting and emotional and so much to process.
Let’s Talk About Sex, {for a} Baby!
I think intimacy is a beautiful thing, much like everyone else, I’d assume.
I also have genuinely enjoyed being intimate with my husband since the start of our relationship. But our sex lives, and our attitudes toward having sex changed drastically over 2+ years of trying to conceive, and it’s not something I ever could’ve predicted.
Why, you ask?
Because NOBODY TALKS ABOUT THAT!