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Resentment Is Truly Hardwired, But Release Is Possible

Posted on March 11, 2021March 12, 2021 by Pamela Tsigdinos

Resentment, I’m sad to say, best describes my state of mind these days. This is not something I admit easily. Nor do I care for how resentment feels, so join me as I attempt some junior varsity psychoanalysis.  Where to begin? You know how it feels on days when you’re just on edge, hair triggered…

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No More Silencing: Speaking Our Truth

Posted on July 13, 2015July 13, 2015 by Pamela Tsigdinos

This guest post comes from Andrea Rose, teacher and budding artist. Andrea’s first husband became infertile due to cancer in their first year of marriage while they were in their early twenties. She and her current husband struggled with male factor and age-related infertility for over ten years. She has had to make difficult decisions…

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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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Do You Live A Taboo? I Do, Too!

Posted on August 25, 2013October 1, 2018 by Pamela Tsigdinos

UPDATE 8/27/2013: For those of you around the world who are unable to join us in person in New York City, we’ve opened up a page on our event website to share your thoughts. Please comment below and we’ll include you as virtual participants. …when a path wasn’t clear, the natural instinct was to go…

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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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Ending Fertility Treatment Equated with Madness?

Posted on November 1, 2012January 16, 2017 by Pamela Tsigdinos

Halloween may be over, but the chance to really scare the living daylights out of someone remains real 365 days a year. How you ask? Declare that you’re stepping away from the path to motherhood — and to really induce shrieks wave around a copy of Silent Sorority. That will seal the deal. Horrors! Of…

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Will It Be Fate or Destiny?

Posted on October 16, 2012August 14, 2014 by Pamela Tsigdinos

The steady falling autumn rain this past Saturday did not dampen my spirits one iota. One fleece, one windbreaker and a cheap hooded plastic poncho combined to keep me warm and dry. Amid the throngs, the thousands of students and alumni alike making their way into Ann Arbor’s “Big House” for Homecoming, I was transported decades back to when I was…

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Happy T(w)ogether, Thank You Very Much

Posted on August 7, 2011May 24, 2016 by Pamela Tsigdinos

In the category of inflammatory headlines posed as a question here’s one from a self-described “journalist, mother, thinker” that begs a response: Are Childless Couples Headed Toward Divorce? The short answer from my field research is an emphatic: Hell No! The link to the provocative Huffington Post blog headline first came from a longtime pen…

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I Was The Elder Price of Infertility Treatment

Posted on June 22, 2011May 3, 2017 by Pamela Tsigdinos

I clearly recall 10 years ago feeling wary and apprehensive about what my life would be like a decade later if I didn’t succeed in conceiving. When the nagging worries of an unknown (and surely unfulfilled) life took hold during a frantic last engagement with a team of reproductive endocrinologists at Stanford University Medical Center…

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Heart to Heart

Posted on October 26, 2010December 13, 2018 by Pamela Tsigdinos

Heart-filled conversations don’t often surface with work colleagues. I don’t like to bring grown men to tears, not the least of which because it usually gets me verklempt. “It has grieved me greatly,” he said with just the barest hint of Southern drawl, “to think I might have hurt you in some way…” “Oh,” I…

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