Infertility is so much more than a medical journey. It’s an emotional one, filled with uncertainty, grief, hope, and everything in between.This week on Fertility Village Live, we’re joined by Brittany Marshall, MSW, RSW, @brittanymarshallcounselling a social worker and psychotherapist who brings a powerful combination of professional expertise and personal experience to the conversation.Having navigated infertility herself and ultimately becoming a parent through IVF, Brittany understands the emotional complexities of this journey from both sides of the therapy room.Join Alex Slate @rockabyemaybe for this special episode exploring:✨ The emotional realities of infertility and why they can feel so overwhelming✨ Practical mental health tools to help navigate the highs and lows✨ The unique perspective of experiencing infertility as a mental health professional✨ Lessons learned through Brittany’s own IVF journeyWhether you’re in the thick of treatment, navigating life after infertility, or supporting someone on their journey, this is a conversation you won’t want to miss.Learn more at https://brittanymarshallcounselling.ca/#FertilityVillageLive #OasisFertilitySupportNetwork #InfertilityAwareness #IVFJourney #fertilitymentalhealth

Trying to get pregnant can consume so much of life. Between appointments, decisions, waiting for the next step, and living with so much uncertainty, it can become hard to focus on much else.For many people, life starts to feel as though it’s on hold while they wait for the next cycle, appointment, test or result.Join us this week on Fertility Village LIVE over at @oasisfsn as Sarah @sarahstruck welcomes Stephanie Curran @iamstephaniecurran founder of Ground to Grow @groundtogrow.co for a conversation about why fertility journeys can take such a toll emotionally, and what can help.Drawing on 26 years of TCM clinical experience, her own with infertility and IVF journey, and the evidence-informed practices she teaches through https://www.groundtogrow.co/ Ground to Grow, Stephanie will share practical ways to work with worry and difficult thoughts, feel more grounded during challenging moments, and keep living your life while you’re in the midst of trying to conceive.How do you keep living your life when the thing you want most is still unresolved?#infertilitypodcast #ivf #fertilitymindfulness #fertilitysupport

This week on Fertility Village LIVE, we’re excited to be joined by author, writer and storyteller Nicole Victory author of FrankenLOVE: One Monster’s Journey to Becoming a MOMster Through Mad Science.Born from Nicole’s own experience with infertility FrankenLOVE follows Frae, a monster who desperately wants to become a MOMster. When creating a mini monster doesn’t happen the way she hoped, Frae turns to Dr. Boo Fang and a little “mad science” to help build her family.Join us as we dive in to talk about Nicole’s journey through fertility treatment, the uncertainty of not knowing how your story will end, becoming a mother after infertility, and how her own experience ultimately inspired a children’s book that helps families talk about the many different ways families are created.

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