Sarah (Wish Collective)

Sarah is someone who I am incredibly proud to call a friend. Our friendship has emerged out of a surprising place, online through share experience, and mission to support, help, and advocate for rural communities and people.  See Sarah and her husband Steve run the Wish Collective, a small grass roots rural creative solution supporting families going through fertility treatment. The Wish collective provides a safe community for people to share and seek support. They also provide financial support to families for supplementary treatments. Sarah speaks with such passion about how often these are the things women in particular go without due to the high financial cost associated with treatment. Sarah and Steve just launched their Wren collection which are a small collection of bereavement cards that can be gifted to a friend or family member during loss (a beautiful and much needed nod to special friends who lost their child), and their fertility affirmation cards. As soon as I saw the Wish Collective affirmation cards, I fell deeply in love with them and demanded (YES DEMANDED that sarah make me her first customer. From this Sarah and I started to talk about her and Steve’s journey to their beautiful daughter Rosie, and my gosh have these two been on a journey. Sarah and Steve knew they wanted children and started trying straight away, when things didn’t seem to materialize, Sarah being the person she is, took matters into her own hands, and started their journey – which was rough. Round after round of IVF Steve and Sarah were left with little more than a bill and more questions as to why. Sarah openly shares how physically, emotionally, and financially taxing IVF can be, and how their journey has really changed and shape them to the people they are today. What is clear to me is that they are a team, I feel through Sarah’s words and the way she speaks about her beautiful partner Steve that they are deeply connected, and this has been one of the major reasons they have made it through to the other side.   Overall, Sarah is brutally honest, she talks about how she knows grief having lost her mum at such a young age, and even fertility rocked her to the core. Sarah touches on how to find happiness in the small things during IVF treatment, how she and Steve examined their life and planned for a future if they didn’t have children, how she navigated a tricky high-risk pregnancy without her mum, and how she managed, life, and hope, through recurrent miscarriage. Sarah is a strong woman, I say that without a shadow of doubt in my mind to how determined this woman is, she is strong in the manner, of being unwilling to accept something it if it is below standard, but also kind, gentle, and considerate. I am in awe of Sarah’s determination and creativity, she along with Steve just want to just give back to a community she believes gave them so much.  This is an incredibly insightful chat for anyone who is in the fertility trenches or has a loved one there.  Sarah thank you so much for sharing your journey, but also thank you so much for your friendship and support, you are truly an incredible woman, and I consider myself lucky to be now considered a friend.  You can find Sarah and Steve here: https://www.wishcollective.com.au Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.