Hey, welcome back to the preview alliance podcast this is Sarah and Whitney and we are in

Thanksgiving and you know we're thankful we're grateful but we also have to say it's okay not to be okay

during this time and actually the title is episode it's okay to be thankful not

okay right so thankfulness does not erase or negate feelings of grief that she may have, feelings of

struggle if you're dealing with infertility. Just because it's the holiday season doesn't mean that those feelings or those traumas or those griefs are magically gone

No, no, I mean just because there's a holiday just because we're eating turkey

we're stuffing ourselves does not mean anything that we're going through just

stop exactly it actually gets harder a Oh, a thousand percent, especially, I mean from personal experience, grief gets harder with holidays.

It does and maybe even it's that thing that you're going through that you've kind of just been like okay if I can get through the holidays

then I'm okay then I'm okay or I'm distracted by you know we're looking up

our recipes where talking to family where getting in a

spirit but then it comes up you're like huh so let's talk through a couple of

scenarios so to the new mom. So she's sleep deprived, she's

healing, she's adjusting, you've got new family dynamics and you're she's

simply trying to keep her head above water.

Right, she's surviving right now.

So now we're expecting her to go into a very busy season.

Yeah, like nothing has happened. Like nothing's happened. Like she's not

impact. But her whole world's just been flipped up and you know it again it goes

back to like she's not sleeping and healing and so if that new mom is listening

and you're like I don't want to go to 15 events this season. I don't want to

do that and I'm not newly postpart of.

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