When I graduated from college, I packed my Toyota Corolla to the brim with clothes, sentiment-laden knick knacks, two guitars, a box of books, and a sense of adventure – and moved across the country from South Carolina to the southern-most tip of Texas, right on the border of … Read More »
Healing
Move toward mindful living and coping via cathartic expression and emotional validation. May you find peace, joy, comfort, and light – wherever you are on your journey.
Checking Your Baggage at the Gate
Your intuition has unlimited access to timeless wisdom. Intuition involves your mind-body connection. It’s about paying attention to how you feel and what your body has to tell you. Your mind can trick you, but your body never lies. It tells you stories, gives you messages, and … Read More »
Lessons in Healing
I am a stepmother and mother of a daughter who died of SIDS in 2003, and had an ectopic pregnancy in 2004. I have also struggled with secondary infertility since my daughter's death. Despite this tragedy and challenges, I have went on to get my PhD and start a small press. … Read More »
You Just Can’t Help But Laugh
Throughout our process of trying to conceive, I often watched people around me and wondered when I was next. When was it my turn to be happy? Why couldn't my life be that easy? Why do I feel so hurt all the time? What is the reason for this hardship in my life? When will I be … Read More »
Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
Guest Post by Candyce Pelfrey Kannengieser I had not always wanted children. I wasn’t born maternal. I did not like minding my younger brothers and I hated babysitting. I definitely did not want to get pregnant, so at sixteen and still a virgin, I went on birth control … Read More »
#WhyIWalk: 2015 New England Walk of Hope
This Sunday, 9/27, Larry, Judah, and I will walk in the first-ever New England Walk of Hope, sponsored by RESOLVE New England and RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association. The Walk of Hope recognizes the many ways in which families are built, supports local support services … Read More »
Just Relax? More Like Just Don’t, Amirite?
Ask any infertility patient their least two favorite words and I betcha, dollars to donuts, you'll get the same two words every time: "Just relax!" Yes... let me just relax and all of my biological reproductive issues will just magically resolve themselves, right? I … Read More »
Why I Go to the RESOLVE New England Annual Infertility & Adoption Conference
In 2009, after I had been dealt quite the blow with my premature ovarian failure diagnosis, Larry and I were left with lots of questions and few answers. We were in luck (as lucky as you can be with infertility) when I found out about the RESOLVE New England Annual Fertility … Read More »
Grieving, Breathing
This is one of those posts I just need to write. I debated about writing this at my other blog, but decided I wanted this post to live here. Today (Tuesday) has been flanked by death and beauty. Tonight, I hover in that liminal space in between the two, not quite limbo, … Read More »
“Remember Me” and the Days of Awe
For Jews around the globe, including myself, we exist now in a perilous time of year known as Yamim Noraim - the Days of Awe. The ten days in between the start of Rosh HaShanah, the Jewish New Year, and the end of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, constitute the holiest … Read More »
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