Stop powering through…
Stop powering through…
When you’re dealing with infertility, getting to baby is like running a marathon without any mile markers on your way to a finish line that is always moving.
You just don’t know how long it is going to take.
How do you handle something like this? In the beginning, you can power through the emotions. Life has to go on, right?! But as time goes on, it gets harder and harder to just power through. Those emotions start squirting out in ways you cannot predict.
Maybe as anxiety in the middle of the night. Or yelling at your significant other for some minor offense. Or as skipping your best friend’s baby shower.
When you power through your emotions, you aren’t erasing them, you are simply tucking them away for later.
Moving through your emotions about something as vitally important as creating a baby requires a new way of handling your emotions. I describe the process as honoring, acknowledging, and then releasing.
Your emotions are calling attention to something that needs tending within you. Something that wants to be seen and heard.
One of the reasons that we try to power through is we are afraid that if we start feeling, if we start looking at what is causing the emotions, then we are going to get swept away by them.
But, when you actually see, honor, and acknowledge them, they dissolve. And, as they dissolve, you have more resilience. You can continue treatments. You can make decisions that you won’t second guess. You will release the impact of stress on your internal fertility systems.
