A couple of weeks ago, when I was stressing about something at work, I remember telling my husband, “I’m just …

Of all the negative emotions you go through with infertility (sadness, anger, bitterness, despair, frustration), the worst, for me, is the guilt. It’s a never-ending cycle; one feeling of guilt leads to another until I’m back where I started. And it leaves me thinking, in the end, that the real reason I don’t have a baby is because I don’t deserve one after all.

In the last couple of days I’ve both listened to a podcast and read a devotional that “coincidentally” happened to be on the same topic: John 21: 18-22. Somehow I’ve always seemed to gloss over this section—it’s one of the few chapters of the gospels in my Bible that has no highlighting or pencil marks on it.

Bored at home and looking for something to do? This is a great time to focus on helping others! (Remember all of those times you said you didn’t have time? Now you can’t use that excuse!)

Think you need to do something radical and different to be content? Get out of your current circumstances, maybe? If you’re searching for contentment in your circumstances, you’ll be searching a long time.

Going in for fertility testing? Don’t make these mistakes that could end up costing you thousands.

If you’re anything like my husband and I, we LOVE nothing more than going out to eat on a Friday night. (Or Saturday night…or Monday night…or…okay, you get the idea.) We spend way too much money out to eat…but we can’t bring ourselves to stop!

Getting ready for your first appointment? I wish I would have been more prepared. Mentally, more than anything.

Three years ago I decided to delete* social media for one month. I thought it would solve all of my problems. Spoiler alert: It didn’t.