What I Did — and Didn’t Do — in 2025 as a Childfree Not by Choice Woman And How it Can Help You, Too

2025 was a big year. Things were accomplished. Things were not. There were detours along the way. But as a Childfree Not by Choice (CFNBC) woman, this was the first year that felt truly different.…

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Success and Failure. Why do we use these terms?

  I am in Paris for Christmas, and I keep thinking about success and failure and why we use these words to measure women’s procreation via IVF. The image above shows me with my friend’s…

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Why Support Groups Terrified Me — And What I Learned From Them

Support groups, community healing, and shared grief once terrified me. I was deeply cynical about group spaces and afraid of “drinking the Kool-Aid,” so for most of my life, I stayed away. I tried joining…

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Journaling Helped Me Heal After Infertility and Fostering/Adoption Loss

I didn’t begin journaling to process infertility grief. In the early days, it wasn’t even on my radar. I was still debating whether to foster again, still hoping a different agency might open a door…

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The Jennifer Aniston Effect

The Jennifer Aniston Effect is what happens when one woman’s truth makes millions of others visible. After twenty years of speculation about when Jennifer Aniston would have children—or why she had not yet become a…

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