Welcome to the first episode of the IVF This podcast. As we begin our journey together, I want to share with you a little about me and how I got here, what you can expect from the podcast, and a brief inspirational quote that I love. I will also be teaching you something that you can use right now to better understand how your emotions work.

Welcome to the first episode of the IVF This podcast. As we begin our journey together, I want to share with you a little about me and how I got here, what you can expect from the podcast, and a brief inspirational quote that I love. I will also be teaching you something that you can use right now to better understand how your emotions work.

Let’s Do This

In this episode, I share two personal stories about feelings related to infertility and IVF, one from me and one from one of my clients. I talk about the importance of normalizing our feelings and how understanding them is vital to our overall well-being and mental health.

In this episode, I share two personal stories about feelings related to infertility and IVF, one from me and one from one of my clients. I talk about the importance of normalizing our feelings and how understanding them is vital to our overall well-being and mental health.

Normalizing Feelings

Emily answers a question about how she would navigate a family members tactless questions and comments during the holiday season.

Emily answers a question about how she would navigate a family members tactless questions and comments during the holiday season.

BONUS - Listener Q&A Holiday Edition

In this episode I share five myths around grief and walking through why each one is inaccurate and destructive to our grieving process. I talk about why grief is a normal and natural response to our journey and why so many of our grief beliefs are so off base.

In this episode I share five myths around grief and walking through why each one is inaccurate and destructive to our grieving process. I talk about why grief is a normal and natural response to our journey and why so many of our grief beliefs are so off base.

Myths of Grief

This week, I dive into the topic of shame. I talk about the roots of shame, how shame and infertility are linked, and what you can do to break your shame cycle. 

This week, I dive into the topic of shame. I talk about the roots of shame, how shame and infertility are linked, and what you can do to break your shame cycle.

Infertility Shame

Join Emily as she breaks down Infertility trauma. What it is, what it looks like, and why it’s a thing. Emily introduces a concept called “Compounded Trauma” to help listeners understand the context of infertility trauma and that understanding it is the first step towards healing.

Join Emily as she breaks down Infertility trauma. What it is, what it looks like, and why it’s a thing. Emily introduces a concept called “Compounded Trauma” to help listeners understand the context of infertility trauma and that understanding it is the first step towards healing.

Infertility Trauma: Part 1

Join Emily this week as she talks about the importance of taking that first step in trauma recovery, naming it! She will also provide practical options to help you on your healing journey.

Join Emily this week as she talks about the importance of taking that first step in trauma recovery, naming it! She will also provide practical options to help you on your healing journey.

Infertility Trauma: Part 2

Join me today as I break down the three most common ways of dealing with emotion and why they are not serving you. I'm also offering you a fourth way to process your emotions that will help you to start feeling better right now. This tremendously valuable skill is something that will serve you forever.

Join me today as I break down the three most common ways of dealing with emotion and why they are not serving you. I'm also offering you a fourth way to process your emotions that will help you to start feeling better right now. This tremendously valuable skill is something that will serve you forever.

Feel Better NOW

Join me this week to discover the difference between clean and dirty pain, and how embracing this concept can diminish so much unnecessary suffering in your life. Emotional pain and misery are bound to come up, but this tool is going to help you flow through it with less resistance.

Join me this week to discover the difference between clean and dirty pain, and how embracing this concept can diminish so much unnecessary suffering in your life. Emotional pain and misery are bound to come up, but this tool is going to help you flow through it with less resistance.

Clean Pain Vs Dirty Pain

This week I share a list of twenty things I hope you remember when people around you question your IVF journey, asking you if you’re ok, or offering you advice. Many people are well-meaning but don’t have any real idea of how to comfort someone going through IVF. It’s important to remind yourself that you’re entitled to experience your journey however you want and need.

This week I share a list of twenty things I hope you remember when people around you question your IVF journey, asking you if you’re ok, or offering you advice. Many people are well-meaning but don’t have any real idea of how to comfort someone going through IVF. It’s important to remind yourself that you’re entitled to experience your journey however you want and need.

IVF'ers Bill of Rights

The IVF This Podcast offers practical and empowering strategies for individuals on a journey of infertility and fertility treatments who believe in the possibility of loving life despite the journey they are on. If you want more than traditional therapy, support groups can offer, if you’re stuck in an emotional pattern and feel like you can’t get free, if you want help navigating the unique challenges of infertility and fertility treatments, with support that is uplifting and honest, this is the podcast for you.

Join me this week as I take a look at the key differences between conventional therapy and life coaching and the types of issues that are best suited for each approach. So many people ask how is a life coach different from a therapist? If you’re not exactly sure whether you need a therapist, a life coach, or both, this episode is for you. Tune in to discover why you absolutely must invest in your mental health and what each one of the perspectives can offer.

Join me this week as I take a look at the key differences between conventional therapy and life coaching and the types of issues that are best suited for each approach. So many people ask how is a life coach different from a therapist? If you’re not exactly sure whether you need a therapist, a life coach, or both, this episode is for you. Tune in to discover why you absolutely must invest in your mental health and what each one of the perspectives can offer.

Coaching vs Therapy

Join me this week as I break down Toxic Positivity. I explain what toxic positivity is, why it’s so prevalent in the infertility and IVF world, and five ways to safeguard yourself from the toxic positivity culture. 

Join me this week as I break down Toxic Positivity. I explain what toxic positivity is, why it’s so prevalent in the infertility and IVF world, and five ways to safeguard yourself from the toxic positivity culture.

Toxic Positivity

This week I interview physician and mid-life sex coach, Dr. Sonia Wright. We discuss the sexual disconnection some of us experience with our partners. Normalizing this and the impact that infertility can have on sexual intimacy is vital to maintaining that connection.  In this episode, you will learn about sexual utility vs. pleasure, why giving yourself permission to experience pleasure is important, and a few takeaways to help safeguard you and your partners sexual intimacy. 

This week I interview physician and mid-life sex coach, Dr. Sonia Wright. We discuss the sexual disconnection some of us experience with our partners. Normalizing this and the impact that infertility can have on sexual intimacy is vital to maintaining that connection.  In this episode, you will learn about sexual utility vs. pleasure, why giving yourself permission to experience pleasure is important, and a few takeaways to help safeguard you and your partners sexual intimacy.

Sex and IVF with Dr. Sonia Wright

This week I deep-dive into comparative suffering. Have you ever experienced pain or frustration about something and then compared it to someone else going through something and thought, well, I don’t have any reason to be upset because they have it worse? Or even, what do they have to complain about, they only have XYZ? That’s comparative suffering.  I will help you understand what it is, why we do it, and why it never works. I’ll also give you two tools that you already have to help combat this connection-killing plague.

Comparative Suffering

In today’s episode, I talk about the IVF Fog. I break down what it is, how it might show up for you, and why your brain protects you in this way. Most importantly, I share with you a few tips on how to manage the IVF Fog.

IVF Fog

Do you ever feel like you’re always preparing for the worst thing to happen? It’s called emotional cushioning, and today, I break it down. 

Do you ever feel like you’re always preparing for the worst thing to happen? It’s called emotional cushioning, and today, I break it down.

Emotional Cushioning

Join me today as I talk about the different types of losses we experience, how most of us experience grief, and I share one of my favorite analogies about grief.

Join me today as I talk about the different types of losses we experience, how most of us experience grief, and I share one of my favorite analogies about grief.

Grieving Losses

Maggie Reyes

Join me today as I talk with one of my favorite people and my relationship guru, Maggie Reyes. Maggie is a Marriage Life Coach and drops some amazing wisdom and tangible things to safeguard or rescue your relationship before, during, and after IVF.

Join me today as I talk with one of my favorite people and my relationship guru, Maggie Reyes. Maggie is a Marriage Life Coach and drops some amazing wisdom and tangible things to safeguard or rescue your relationship before, during, and after IVF.

Your Relationships & IVF with Maggie Reyes

Join me today as I talk about the one thing that having a baby will not solve for you. Understanding this concept is an essential step in building your relationship with yourself. 

Join me today as I talk about the one thing that having a baby will not solve for you. Understanding this concept is an essential step in building your relationship with yourself.

A baby wont solve for...

Today I unpack all things ‘worry’- it’s usefulness, it’s uselessness, and a five step process to help you manage your worry. 

Today I unpack all things ‘worry’- it’s usefulness, it’s uselessness, and a five step process to help you manage your worry.

The Worry Bin

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