You Deserve to Be a Patient: Caring For Yourself During Fertility Treatment with Dr. Tina Adams

Dr. Tina Adams is a double board-certified OBGYN, certified life coach, former burned out physician, and host of the Navigating Possibility podcast. She helps women physicians break free from survival mode — and in this episode, she and Dr. Erica dig into what happens when that survival mode collides with the part-time job of infertility.This is a conversation about anger, agency, emotional regulation, and what it actually takes to find your voice inside a system that was never designed to support you.In this episode:Dr. Tina’s path from full-scope OBGYN to OB hospitalist and certified coach — and why restructuring her clinical job opened up possibilities she never anticipatedWhat the stressed out brain actually looks like neurologically — and why adding the fertility journey on top is so destabilizingWhy medicine trains us to have no needs — and what it costs us when we believe itThe mantra that anchors so much of this work: I deserve to be a patientAnger as a messenger: what it’s trying to tell you, why women in medicine have been conditioned to suppress it, and what to do with it insteadWhy allowing an emotion moves it through you — and why resisting it keeps it stuckThe downstream benefits of doing this emotional work now: it doesn’t just help the fertility journey, it makes you the parent you’re working so hard to becomeLegislative advocacy for fertility coverage: what’s working, where the gaps are, and why self-insured institutions are a problem even in mandated statesPractical tools you can access now, such as the Five Calls app: )the lowest-lift way to use your voice with legislators) and the RESOLVE toolkit: ready-made templates for asking your employer for fertility coverage and time to focus on your fertility journeyFind Dr. Tina Adams:christinaadamsdmd.comPodcast: Navigating PossibilityInstagram: @christinaadamsdo2Facebook & LinkedIn: Christina Adams MD Support the showAs always, please keep in mind that this is my perspective and nothing in this podcast is medical advice.If you found this conversation valuable, book a consult call with me using this link:https://www.loveandsciencefertility.com/private-fertility-consultFollow us on social media:IG: www.instagram.com/loveandsciencefertilityFB: www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61553692167183Please don’t let infertility have the final word. We are here to take the burden from you so that you can achieve your goal of building your family with confidence and compassion. I’m rooting for you always.In Gratitude,Dr. Erica Bove