I didn’t speak up because I didn’t want to be pitied. I was ashamed. And embarrassed. And I guess that at the end of the day, I didn’t want to freaking talk about it! My heart felt completely exposed. And raw. I had a sense that I needed to slow down and bring myself back from the obsession of getting pregnant…
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The basics of the 1st Chakra help us understand how instability in this very first energy center can cause an inherently difficult infertility journey to be even more difficult. Since the 1st Chakra is the foundation for all the other Chakras, it makes sense that it is formed during the 1st year of life. The 1st Chakra is all about…
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“We return thanks to our mother, the earth, which sustains us. We return thanks to the rivers and streams, which supply us with water. We return thanks to all herbs, which furnish medicines for the cure of our diseases. We return thanks to the moon and stars, which have given to us their light when the sun was gone. We…
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Do you ever hear your mother’s voice come out of your mouth? Are you emotionally absent like your father? Are you attracting the same types of boyfriends over and over? All of us have probably vowed at some point in our lives to “never be like our parents.” How dramatic by the way right?! But as hard as we fought…
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“Each time my feet touched the earth I knew my mother was there for me. I knew this body was not mine alone, but a living continuation of my mother and all of my ancestors. These feet that I saw as “my” feet were actually “our” feet. Together, my mother and I were leaving footprints in the damp soil” ~Thich…
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Do you have a strong grasp on what your values and beliefs are after infertility? This may seem like an odd question, but some of us never fully explore who we are now. At this very second. Not what our parents believed. And not what we believed BEFORE infertility. What do we believe NOW? Because beliefs can change. Traumatic experiences…
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