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“The best journeys answer questions that in the beginning, you didn’t even think to ask.” –180 Degrees South I had been thinking about egg freezing and talking about doing it for years. I prepared my conservative parents with subtle hints and talks about the idea. My egg freezing journey really started with my fertility…
“It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.” — Mahatma Gandhi Learning you have endometriosis is not only physically painful but emotional taxing as well. Endometriosis is the abnormal growth of endometrial tissue similar to that which lines the interior of the uterus but in a location outside of the uterus….
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” – Albert Einstein Here are some basic terminology and procedures that may be performed during your experience with fertility. The better you understand these concepts and processes the better you will grasp what choices and decisions you would like to make for…
“In order to cause a shadow to disappear, you must shine light on it.” — Shakti Gawain Many psychologists have spoken about how past experiences can affect your life today. Did you know that your current feelings and personality traits can affect your current behaviors? The experiences we are having today were likely shaped…
“The only thing you sometimes have control over is perspective. You don’t have control over your situation or what someone thinks, but you do have a choice about how you view and react to it.” ― Chris Pine If you have parents like mine, you might be hesitant or uneasy to talk to them about…
Family, Fertility, Future Before the holidays, I visited my 90 year-old grandparents. As I sat around their kitchen table for lunch, I asked them to divulge all of their secrets and life hacks. Some of the history and stories I already knew, but I realized I had never asked these questions one-on-one. I asked them…
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” ― Oprah Winfrey We all have coping mechanisms for pain, hurt, disappointment, heartache, and tragedy. Mine would have to be sleep. I use sleep to distract me from my problems. Dream the problems away as I like to think of it. I justify this coping mechanism by saying, how…
“I really believe the thing that holds people back is the romantic version of who they think they want to be or who they think they are versus who they actually are.” ― Gary Vaynerchuck There can be a sense of sadness before one undergoes egg freezing. It is like letting go of this imaginary…