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fromIndependent
5 days ago

Elizabeth Day: 'I came away from my session with the psychic feeling peace with not being a mother in this lifetime'

After a traumatic 12-year fertility journey, Elizabeth Day believes it is part of her purpose in life to speak for those who have tried and failed to have children. Here, the author and podcaster talks about her serendipitous online match with her husband, her fascination with class and professional jealousy A few months ago, and nearly a full two years after she found an element of peace after a traumatic journey of infertility and loss, Elizabeth Day got an email out of the blue.
Medicine
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

The Taboo and Pain of Reproductive and Maternal Loss

Maternal ambivalence stems from embracing flow rather than rigid perfection; women need individualized time to heal after reproductive and maternal loss.
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

This is the hardest I've ever lived': meet the US cowgirls making it as ranchers

Savanah McCarty was not riding across the wide-open prairie when a horse accident nearly killed her. She was in the driveway of her leased farm outside Bozeman, Montana, waiting for a student's mother to arrive, when her horse seized and flipped over backwards, landing on top of her. The horse, it turned out, had a neurological disorder linked to possum urine. McCarty never imagined it could cause this.
Agriculture
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