Episode 72: Infertility Changes You ... with Jesse and Doug from Infertility Feelings Podcast

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May 21, 2024 • 53 mins

Infertility changes a person, physically, mentally, and emotionally — it affects our identity, our relationships, our hopes and expectations for the future. How we manage these changes will be different for each person.

In this unique and personal episode, Dr. Lora Shahine is a guest on the Infertility Feelings podcast with hosts Doug and Jesse. Listeners will hear her share her own fertility journey and all the emotions she experienced being simultaneously doctor and patient.

Jesse and Doug also explain their process groups — safe spaces where members can talk about the issues and feelings that come with infertility. A great tool for managing the emotional toll that infertility takes, this form of group therapy could help members come out the other side understanding what their bodies and minds have gone through.

In this episode you’ll hear:

[:46] Meet the hosts of the Infertility Feelings Podcast

[2:35] Dr. Lora Shahine shares her fertility journey through 2 pregnancies

[7:04] Being a Fertility Doctor and Fertility patient at the same time

[10:28] The impact of fertility on other parts of your life

[13:51] Acceptance of a new reality

[16:24] Infertility as a first “real” struggle

[18:47] How infertility changes you

[23:27] The changes your body goes through during infertility

[28:24] Dealing with feelings of failure

[30:19] Doug & Jesse’s Process Groups

[36:06] Balancing patient’s dreams with best course of action