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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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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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IVF Rollercoaster: BBC Radio Show Callers Describe ‘Grueling, Painful, Isolating, Roll of Dice’

Posted on June 2, 2015June 10, 2017 by Pamela Tsigdinos

Warning to those in a raw or vulnerable state: take caution listening to the interviews and discussions linked below.   As I come up on my seven-year anniversary of The New York Times piece, Facing Life Without Children When it Isn’t by Choice (June 10, 2008), I can’t help but be reflective. If you went…

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Infertility survivor

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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Keeping it 100: Identity Crisis and Emotional Cratering in a Mommy Mad World

Posted on January 28, 2015May 7, 2016 by Pamela Tsigdinos

In Part II of the ‘Bitter Infertiles’ podcast transcript (Part I here or listen to the podcast here), we talk infertility trauma, the assault to identity and misplaced mommy glorification… Mo: One of the big issues we discussed last month with a therapist was the devastating effect that infertility can have on the emotional well-being….

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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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When Does the Pursuit of Pregnancy Go Too Far?

Posted on January 17, 2015February 4, 2017 by Pamela Tsigdinos

  Now 10 years outside of my pursuit of pregnancy and all the related dreams I once held dear, I find myself preoccupied by the complex questions and issues that continue to swirl around the ‘fertility’ industry and those swept up in it. I sat down last month to research and write a longer piece…

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Worlds Collide (In a Good Way)

Posted on October 23, 2014November 19, 2014 by Pamela Tsigdinos

  There are pros and cons to having two personas. For my entire career in the auto and tech worlds my business cards and email signatures have read Pamela Mahoney. I’m rather attached to my given name and, let’s face it, it’s a lot less intimidating to spell or pronounce than my married name Pamela…

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Strong At The Broken Places

Posted on September 30, 2014July 24, 2018 by Pamela Tsigdinos

This week my TV viewing intersected with life in a meaningful way.  Larger than life characters reminded me that in the long march of time, it’s how we cope with what comes our way that defines us. In turbulent times, sanity and clear thinking can be in short supply. That was made abundantly clear in…

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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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