It’s National Infertility Awareness Week!
The theme for the 25th anniversary of NIAW is “Resolve to know more about…”
As I’ve gone through my own infertility journey and developed The Infertility Voice website, I always come back to these four guiding beliefs: Knowledge. Empowerment. Healing. Hope. In resolving to know more about your options, you can tap into each of these by getting more practical information about moving forward, empowering yourself on your family building journey with that knowledge and then through that, finding hope and healing as you move forward.
There are many, many paths to resolution. No one path is “right” or “better” than another. Like our myriad of infertility experiences, so too are the ways in which we resolve. Sometimes we parent. Sometimes we come to parent in ways we never, ever expected. Sometimes we don’t parent at all. But you know what? That’s okay.
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All this week, I’m featuring interviews from folks I’ve known throughout my journey and some I’ve just met about their infertility journeys and their various paths to resolution. Here’s who we’ve got in store for you this week:
- The IVF Option by yours truly 😉
- The Surrogacy Option with infertility advocate and new mom after surrogacy, Whitney Anderson and the baller, awesomesauce Smart One Kym of The Smartness
- The Open-Hearted Adoption Option with Lori Holden, author of The Open-Hearted Way to Open Adoption
- The Mind/Body Connection with Joanne Verkuilen, Founder and Co-CEO of Circle+Bloom
- The Empowered Patient with Rhonda Levy, Founder and CEO of Empowered IVF
- Resolving Without Parenting with Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos, author of Silent Sorority
Other Ways to Get Involved for NIAW
- Snag an #NIAW Facebook Timeline Cover here.
- Join me for an infertility Twitter chat with WEGO Health at 3pm EST tomorrow, Tuesday, April 22nd: http://bit.ly/NIAWhachat
- Read and share my special post for Disney Baby this week: I Can’t Do Baby Showers – and 6 Other Things Your Friend With Infertility Wants to Tell You.
- Head to RESOLVE’s NIAW website to learn more.
