A note About Grief & loss

For so many of us, grief and loss is at the center of our difficult trying to conceive journeys.

Loss of beliefs, expectations, of parts of ourselves or relationships.

Grieving time spent in clinics, labs, researching, deep diving on reddit, when we wish to be anywhere else.

Grieving who we were before TTC took over our lives.

Grieving a dream of having a partner in your parenting journey and doing this solo.

Grief of dreams put on hold, changed, or lost altogether.

Grief of a child lost, or never held, or a due date that haunts us.

Losing connection to our bodies and the sense that our bodies are our own.

Grief that others do not understand, do not support or actively judge our bodies, relationships and choices.

Grieving changing bodies, changing priorities, changing emotions.

Rivers, waves, oceans, storms of grief, surging and crashing over us, pulling us under and pushing out into new waters that we do not know how to navigate.

Grieving so often is the work.