Hannah Kidder

Author of "Hard and Beautiful Things: A Guided Journal for Navigating Infertility"

10/13/2025

It’s official — my book Hard & Beautiful Things is out in the world!

This project grew from years of navigating my own journey of infertility, grief, and hope, and I poured my heart into every page.

If the topic speaks to you (or someone you love), I’d be so grateful if you’d share it with your network or anyone it might help. Word of mouth is everything for indie authors. 💛

You can find it on Amazon, link in the comments/bio.

08/14/2025

Infertility has a way of twisting our relationship with our bodies, of causing bitterness and division within ourselves. It’s okay to be disappointed when our bodies aren’t doing what we so desperately want them to do. But your body is not broken. It is working hard to sustain and nourish you through this journey. Showing love to our bodies is a radical act in a world that profits from our self hatred. It is especially radical and desperately necessary in the midst of infertility.

✨Body Love✨ might just be my favorite section of my guided journal. It is a safe place to feel and express all of tensions we hold in and about our bodies.

📚 Hard and Beautiful Things: A Guided Journal for Navigating Infertility, drops October 7th. Preorder link coming soon!

⤵ Drop a comment. How are you caring and showing love for your body this week?

08/11/2025

My grandma thought my dad was a tumor: true story.

That's my paternal grandmother Marjorie holding my brother, and that's me with my Grandpa on the right. She lived through the Great Depression, survived breast cancer in her 30s, and faced infertility. She passed away in 2007 at the age of 80, when I was 21.

She tried for years to get pregnant before adopting 2 children. I don't know all of the details of her journey -- people didn't talk about infertility back then, and there was so little known about it. But I can imagine it was lonely, confusing, and full of unanswered questions. When she did finally get pregnant with my dad, she was in such disbelief that she thought he was a tumor.

At 21, I had no clue that infertility would be part of my own story. I couldn’t have imagined the connection we shared.

If I could, I’d ask her what it was like to carry all of that. Did she have anyone she could confide in? Did her doctor offer any real support? Did infertility change how she saw herself? And what did it feel like, after all that waiting, to finally be pregnant?

I like to believe that some part of her strength lives on in me — a kind of ancestral wisdom that carried me forward when my own path felt impossible.

08/10/2025

Hi, I’m Hannah. 👋

I’m a therapist who writes. I'm also an infertility survivor who’s been through the crazy, messy, gut-wrenching, hope-and-heartbreak rollercoaster of trying to build a family.

When I was in the thick of it, I kept wishing there was a space where I could reflect honestly about the hard stuff and still feel held. I looked everywhere for thoughtful prompts to actually process what I was going through. That’s why I wrote my guided journal on infertility. I want to give you the kind of questions, reflections, and gentle nudges I wish I had, and to remind you that you’re not alone in this.

Outside of therapy rooms and writing sessions, a piece of my heart lives in South Africa. I studied abroad there years ago, and I still dream about going back. (Like, actual literal dreams. My subconscious is obsessed.)

If you're going through infertility or love someone who is, I’m so glad you’re here.

Follow along for genuine discussion, gentle encouragement, and the occasional big sister pep talk. And if you feel like it, drop a comment or say hi… connection is what gets us through.

Photo credit: Danica Donnelly Photography

07/27/2025

Infertility is a whole body experience-- a spiritual, emotional, and physical one.

Here’s your reminder: You’re allowed to rest.
You don’t have to earn it.
You don’t need to be “productive.”
You don’t need to keep pushing just because the world doesn’t slow down.

Rest is resistance. Rest is healing. Rest is not giving up! It’s a way of coming home to yourself when everything feels out of control.

💛 If you're looking for a gentle companion during this chapter, my guided journal Hard and Beautiful Things: A Guided Journal for Navigating Infertility comes out October 7th.
It’s a space to pause, reflect, and put words to the things that hurt — even when you're too tired to explain them out loud.

07/25/2025

🌟Today is world IVF day 🌟

This picture was taken in January 2020 when my husband and I went to Tulum on what we thought would be our last "child free" vacation. We had no idea that a pandemic was right around the corner, or that years of heartache and medical procedures lay ahead of us. IVF was not in our plan.

If you are in the midst of infertility, whatever that looks like for you-- I see you. I'm holding hope for you today.

💛 If you know someone going through IVF, today’s a good day to remind them they’re not alone.

📘 Hard and Beautiful Things releases October 7.

07/22/2025

📣 Big news: My book Hard and Beautiful Things: A Guided Journal for Navigating Infertility is officially being released on October 7th!

This project has been a labor of love, built from both professional experience and deep personal understanding of how painful and isolating infertility can be. This journal is a space for reflection, validation, and healing — created for anyone walking this brutally hard road.

If you're wondering how you can support me, here’s how (and it actually helps a lot):
💬 Like, comment, or share my posts — even a little emoji bumps visibility.
👯‍♀️ Share my profile or posts with your people — especially anyone in the fertility world (friends, therapists, clinics, support groups, etc.).
📚 Preorder links will be coming soon, so stay tuned.

Getting this journal into the hands of the people who need it most means everything to me. Thanks for showing up 💛

03/02/2025

I promise.

10/22/2024

I’m thrilled to share that I signed a publishing contract today for Hard and Beautiful Things. I will be working with an editor and illustrator over the next several months to perfect it, and it will be available widely for purchase in 2025! Stay tuned.

01/07/2024

My Kickstarter did not meet it's funding goal. This means that if you pledged any $ you will not be charged. Thank you to those of you who expressed interest, offered support, and pledged money-- it means so much to me! This just means that it's back to the drawing board. Unfortunately it's really hard to sell a book when you don't have a significant social media following and that's just not where I want to put my energy. I'm working on a proposal for some book publishers who market more specifically in the self help and psychology genres, so that will be where my effort is now focused.

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