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Breaking the Silence
Recently I sat around a table surrounding a group of women and the subject of infertility and miscarriage was raised. Days prior, I walked into an unwelcomed conversation regarding my own struggle with infertility and my most recent loss. Both of these experiences triggered very different emotions. While listening to another woman openly share her experiences with infertility and miscarriage, the room suddenly fell into a deafening silence. I felt uncomfortable. But not because of the content of the conversation; I was uncomfortable with the silence that took over the room and with how the woman with the open heart who took a risk must have felt. Here’s the thing…
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Striving For Progress Instead of Perfection
After we lost Brody my husband and I had an awakening. We needed to start living we said. Stop trying to be in control of every aspect of our lives and just live. Let things be. Enjoy our family. Let the housework go. Put the phones down and have conversations. We knew that we were over committed, over worked and exhausted. We never stopped. I was, who am I kidding, I still am a controlling type A, who if nothing goes my way watch out or else the horns and tail come out (or so my husband jokingly claims), kind of woman. Let me assure you that I am not…
