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Forever Changed … Again

Posted on February 27, 2021February 27, 2021 by Pamela Tsigdinos

Change comes slowly and then all at once. I honestly thought I would be better at coping with change and the pandemic bunker mentality by now.  But after a year, I still feel compelled to dig into my reserves to get through most days.  I know I’m not alone (feel y’all) in my exhaustion and…

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The change

The Change: For Reals

Posted on October 27, 2015October 29, 2015 by Pamela Tsigdinos

While my recent blog posts have been outward facing — examining the increasingly surreal fertility-obsessed world and the entrepreneurial fertility industry eager to cash in around it  — this post, girlfriends, is kicking it old school. Grab a cup of coffee or your favorite libation ’cause we’re going inside the girl tent. The numbers don’t…

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Silent Sorority Gratitude and a Look Ahead to a New Generation

Posted on November 24, 2014November 23, 2016 by Pamela Tsigdinos

Thanksgiving gets all the attention and big league association with gratitude, but it’s the quiet, daily acknowledgement of thanks that actually serves us best. That’s one reason I want you to know that not a day goes that I don’t give thanks for the friendship, insights and kindness of all those who have taken the…

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Fertility Industry Brings Brave New World Closer: Are We Truly Ready?

Posted on May 4, 2014February 25, 2019 by Pamela Tsigdinos

There were many troubling headlines about the fertility industry this past week: Women “Exploited” by Egg-Freeze Clinics Don’t bank on IVF, warns new fertility watchdog chief Data Murky on Fertility Rates Should a Woman be Allowed to Hire a Surrogate Because She Fears Pregnancy Will Hurt Her Career? The Subtext: When it Comes to ‘Fertility’…

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“The No-Baby Boom” Nails Cultural Shift and Gloria Steinem Rocks On at 80

Posted on March 24, 2014December 2, 2020 by Pamela Tsigdinos

It was easy to walk a little taller on Sunday. Why? I had just consumed, back to back, articles on women fearlessly tackling stereotypes and unabashedly breaking molds. It was as though a light was switched on as I read, illuminating just how dramatically society has shifted in the past 50 years — in particular…

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Resolving Infertility

What’s This? Common Ground That Doesn’t Involve Motherhood Or Infertility

Posted on March 13, 2014December 20, 2016 by Pamela Tsigdinos

I’ve been spending less and less time in the infertility blogosphere — and for all the right reasons. With my mind no longer preoccupied or dogged by tortured emotions associated with not being in the mommy club, the messiness of healing from infertility, or the rehab-like experience of reinvention and learning to live again, I…

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The Story Behind The New York Times Op-Ed: Selling the Fantasy of Fertility

Posted on September 12, 2013December 12, 2019 by Pamela Tsigdinos

If you’ve read one breathless headline in popular media about the latest and greatest breakthroughs in fertility medicine you’ve read them all. Articles written about reproductive medicine routinely characterize assisted reproductive technologies (I.U.I, I.V.F., donor eggs, egg freezing and surrogacy) as a “sure thing” when, it turns out, close to 80 percent of the cycles…

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Time Warp Tuesday: Advice

Posted on July 10, 2013August 14, 2018 by Pamela Tsigdinos

When was the last time you took your own advice? And I mean put your very own recommendation into action. It’s usually much easier to hand out advice than it is to act on or internalize your own, isn’t it? Advice is the theme for this month’s Time Warp Tuesday blog hop/writing exercise. This monthly activity involves…

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Time Warp Tuesday: Decisions

Posted on June 11, 2013August 15, 2014 by Pamela Tsigdinos

Most weeks come and go without much fanfare. They’re filled with work, exercise, meals, appointments, chores, gardening, a weekend hike, coffee with a friend, a movie, or cleaning out that one drawer that always seems to hold everything because you once wanted to get something off the counter. And then there are weeks like this. The week that…

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What I Wish I’d Known Then: Virtual Casseroles Feed the Soul

Posted on February 2, 2013August 5, 2015 by Pamela Tsigdinos

February 3, 2007 marks a turning point. It’s the day I decided to reach outside my head, to wear my heart on my sleeve, and to seek some answers. Minutes after publishing my very first Coming2Terms blog post on that stormy night six years ago my stomach turned queasy. After years of suffering silently in…

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