Today's episode is all about Amy's journey with infertility! I myself haven't had this experience, so I really appreciate Amy's vulnerability with her experience to help me better understand what I didn't before! Sharing and Listening to each other's life experiences is how humans best learn to love ourselves and each other more fully!
- How she dealt with the feelings of failure around her body’s functions.
- Menstrual shame vs loving your menstrual cycle.
- The coldness of the medical procedures she endured.
- The Marital pressures of conceiving or not.
- The deep loneliness she felt which led to profound beauty.
- Her difficult experience with hormonal contraceptives.
- The magic of our menstural cycles and other relationships women and girls have with their bodies.
- The how empowering the “pill” was in the beginning, but how it’s turned into something else entirely.
- The damaging messages woman receive from their care providers, peers, and society about infertility.
- How she navigated personal relationships with people who love her but don’t understand what she was going through.
- how her experience helped her see the bigger picture of life which helped her understand that she’s enough even without a motherhood experience.
- How pregnancy, birth and early motherhood has been for her thus far, especially through Covid lock down
- Her journey of infertility has inspired the writing and publishing her current fiction novel and future novel.
- The importance of being real in a largely phoney culture.
- We ended with some good chuckles.
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