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You Don’t Have To Be A Mother To Be A Loving Woman

Posted on October 1, 2015April 16, 2020 by Pamela Tsigdinos

Five years ago we made history. On September 28, 2010 Silent Sorority earned an award in the media capital of North America — New York City. There I was amid an unusual mix of a few celebrities, Reprotech industry sales people, clinicians, health advocates and RESOLVE representatives. In my acceptance speech I managed to hush…

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A Conversation on Infertility Misconceptions

Posted on July 1, 2015July 1, 2015 by Pamela Tsigdinos

On the heels of her recent BBC interview (Drawing the Line: When IVF Doesn’t Work) health advocate and blogger Lesley Pyne offered to have an in-depth chat about my latest writing project, Finally Heard. Grab a cup of coffee or tea (or libation of your choice) and join Lesley and me as we launch into…

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Hello Strangers: I’m an Infertility Survivor and I’m Not Ashamed to Say It

Posted on February 2, 2015February 8, 2021 by Pamela Tsigdinos

Here is Part III of the ‘Bitter Infertiles’ conversation — on the anniversary of the day the podcast took place. This where we own up to our experiences as ‘Infertility Survivors.’  (In Part II of the ‘Bitter Infertiles’ podcast transcript (Part I here or listen to the podcast here), we talk infertility trauma, the assault…

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Infertility Community’s Black Sheep: Women Who Don’t Achieve Motherhood

Posted on January 25, 2015May 7, 2016 by Pamela Tsigdinos

Some ‘no-holds barred’ conversations stick with you — like the one Loribeth and I engaged in on surviving infertility and the search for peace in a mommy mad world. (Listen to the podcast here).  Not achieving motherhood is a taboo topic in the infertility community, which is why we were unlikely guests on the tongue-in-cheek named…

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New Philosophy: Everything To Gain

Posted on December 16, 2014December 12, 2016 by Pamela Tsigdinos

How is it that the mind is so much more agile and able to turn over ideas and philosophies with such ease … in the pre-dawn? With rain falling softly against the window at 5am, and my iPad lighting up the room, I swiped my screen to find a Sunday Review piece called Abundance Without…

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‘Fess Up. What Are Your Blind Spots?

Posted on September 17, 2014January 2, 2019 by Pamela Tsigdinos

So there are real blind spots… (Note: Each of your eyes has a blind spot at a certain distance from objects. You never take notice because your brain makes up information based on what else is around and what your other eye sees. ) Test Instructions: To discover your blind spot, cover your left eye…

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A Look Back At How We Got From There to Here in the Blogosphere

Posted on June 22, 2014December 9, 2016 by Pamela Tsigdinos

This past weeks’ events and recent reading, as if added to blender, poured forth some new insights. In the days and weeks leading up to a busy set of family festivities (June birthdays and both a niece and nephew’s high school graduations), I received several warning emails from GoDaddy informing me that my Coming2Terms blog…

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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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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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When Unexplained is the Modifier Assigned To Your Infertility

Posted on February 3, 2014April 24, 2015 by Pamela Tsigdinos

I’m more convinced than ever that women born between 1960 and 1970 came of age at a particularly weird time fertility-wise. Think about it. In 1960 the birth control pill was made commercially available for the first time, and by the time we were wrapping our heads around how babies were made (or not if…

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