Sarah leads us through a brief session touching on practices that have been useful on her childless journey.
Mindfulness meditation and breath work accessible for beginners.
As a student of yoga I’ve been taught that the most powerful and potent thing we’ve got is the present moment. When you’re dealing with infertility, your life becomes so much about this great thing that might happen in the future. This great thing that will have to come from more struggle and hard work than the average person has to endure to get a family.
And then it doesn’t, if the infertility goes on long enough. And this great thing that might happen is supposed to somehow completely negate all of the pain, hard work, and devastating life effects of the present.
I reached a certain point in my infertility where I realized this is an insane way to live, basing my present outlook and mood on a future possibility. A future possibility that we now know will not happen. So I applied my yoga training and started to look at, acknowledge, and commit to living in the now of infertility. It has been surprisingly horribly sucky, but personally I wouldn’t have it any other way.
Sarah Chamberlin