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Wednesday, December 11, 2013
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“Is This Gonna Work?” Bowing Journal 12/11/13

Bowing Journal 12/11/13 I have a bad cold, so really bundled up today before heading out to do my bowing:  2 nuggets from today:    The power of a kind word: “I’m glad you have some sun for your bowing today!” said a pleasant looking man after stopping briefly to read my sign.  What makes it […]

Wednesday, December 4, 2013
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How Much Till I’m Fertile: Failed IVF, The Promise of the Priciest Acupuncture Program & the Power of Money in the World of Baby Making

A failed IVF is a challenge to the part of us that equates a cost of treatment with its potential to heal us; it’s a challenge to the escalating commodification of babies and every other aspect of our lives.

Sunday, November 3, 2013
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9/11-11/9 Holocaust: Not Too Late to Heal; FertileHeartedHuman Video

Life has a way of nudging us toward healing in mysterious ways. Three years ago, I proposed the idea of the Turn It Around Project to our Fertile Heart Community, marking November 9 as the Day of Compassion. My intention was to encourage myself and others to channel the lingering grief linked to 9/11 into a force for good. […]

Thursday, October 3, 2013
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A Frightening Lesson InFertility: Slice Up Your Ovaries or Plan On Fighting

My take on the latest infertility treatment published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences A 30 year old woman, along with twenty six other infertility patients, recently had her ovaries surgically removed, cut into small cubes and then placed into her fallopian tubes after the ovarian tissue had been treated with egg-stimulating drugs.  The […]

Wednesday, September 18, 2013
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Infertility: The Lie that Sells,The Price We Pay; Fertile Heart founder Julia Indichova responds to the NYT piece “Selling the Fantasy of Fertility

The authors of the NYT op-ed “Selling the Fantasy of Fertility,” were right on target when they pointed toward the seductive sales pitch of the infertility industry. What Miriam Zoll (author of Cracked Open: Liberty, and the Pursuit of High Tech Babies) and Pamela Tsigdinos failed to spot is the elephant in the room, the […]

Tuesday, September 3, 2013
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Lesson InFertility: Must Stay Busy Being Born

The great fertility specialist Bob Dylan reminds us that  “He not busy being born, is busy dying.” On this  scenic road to motherhood, if we are to keep becoming more and more fertile, we have no choice but to stay busy being born. Which unborn part of you is calling to be born at this juncture of your […]