Story Time with Author Amy Mattes

Today's episode is all about Amy's journey with infertility! I myself haven't had this experience, so I really appreciate Amy's vulnerability with her experience to help me better understand what I didn't before! Sharing and Listening to each other's life experiences is how humans best learn to love ourselves and each other more fully!

• How she dealt with the feelings of failure around her body’s functions. 
• Menstrual shame vs loving your menstrual cycle. 
• The coldness of the medical procedures she endured.
• The Marital pressures of conceiving or not. 
• The deep loneliness she felt which led to profound beauty. 
• Her difficult experience with hormonal contraceptives. 
• The magic of our menstural cycles and other relationships women and girls have with their bodies. 
• The how empowering the “pill” was in the beginning, but how it’s turned into something else entirely. 
• The damaging messages woman receive from their care providers, peers, and society about infertility. 
• How she navigated personal relationships with people who love her but don’t understand what she was going through.
• how her experience helped her see the bigger picture of life which helped her understand that she’s enough even without a motherhood experience. 
• How pregnancy, birth and early motherhood has been for her thus far, especially through Covid lock down 
• Her journey of infertility has inspired the writing and publishing her current fiction novel and future novel.
• The importance of being real in a largely phoney culture. 
• We ended with some good chuckles. 

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