Creating 2 Pink Lines: Infertility Support & Hope

12/31/2025

This is a profoundly difficult experience for many women, yet we hardly talk about it

A D&C is one of the most psychologically complex experiences, yet hardly examined.

12/13/2025

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/creating-2-pink-lines/202512/when-fertility-stress-stacks-and-you-hit-survival-mode

There is a consequence when it's one thing after another

Fertility stress stacks like plates. Here’s why you feel overwhelmed and how healing begins.

11/28/2025

The best thing you can do for self when facing difficulty is to slow down.

Slow down, breathe and drop the pressure you feel. Pick it up in a minute, it will still be there.

11/27/2025

Fertility struggles aren’t just medical — they are emotional, psychological, relational, and deeply human.
Here on Creating Two Pink Lines, we talk about the parts of the journey that often go unseen:
the pressure, the fear, the timelines, the grief, the identity shifts, the shame scripts, and the longing that sits beneath all of it.
This is a space to learn, to breathe, and to understand your experiences through a trauma-aware, compassion-focused lens.
If you’ve ever felt “I shouldn’t feel this way,” I want you to know: your feelings make sense. Every single one.

11/27/2025

The phrase 'just let it go" is easier said than done when it's about stopping or pausing fertility treatment. Here's why:

Why is it so hard to step back from fertility treatment? Emotional, cultural, and psychological forces make letting go feel impossible.

11/07/2025

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/creating-2-pink-lines/202511/when-fertility-stress-distorts-how-we-think-and-relate

Fertility stress can quietly distort how we think and relate. Learn how unhelpful thought patterns mask grief—and how awareness can restore balance and understanding.  

11/05/2025

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/creating-2-pink-lines/202511/when-tit-for-tat-takes-over-the-holidays

Holidays can magnify tension, especially when fertility grief or family imbalance enters the room. Here's how couples can move beyond tit-for-tat and toward connection.

10/23/2025

Standing on the precipice of treatment is not given enough attention, but the feelings are vaild and real

The earliest moments of a fertility journey often unfold in silence. Before any treatment starts, emotions run deep, yet are not commonly acknowledged as a part of the journey.

10/16/2025

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/creating-2-pink-lines/202510/donor-conception-the-fear-behind-the-yes

Choosing an egg donor can awaken deep fears about readiness. Yet this hesitation may actually signal a wish to protect the future family rather than avoidance.

10/02/2025

Exactly

I finally came to the conclusion that we really have to try to honor the Roe v. Wade thinking, that there are certain times in the life of a woman that she needs to make that decision with her doctor, with her family and with her conscience and that the government shouldn’t be intruding," Durbin told then-moderator Tim Russert.

Durbin has often said that he personally opposes abortion, while supporting the right for others. After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, he said he would keep working "to enshrine into law a woman’s right to make her own reproductive choices."

After Durbin withdrew from accepting an award from Chicago's cardinal, the pope said that "it’s important to look at the overall work that a senator has done."

10/02/2025

When you’re in the middle of pain, it feels endless. The hardest thing to believe is that what you’re feeling won’t last forever. But it won’t.

The heaviness is temporary. Relief will come. Healing will come. Brighter days always return.

08/09/2025

The beginning of treatment is not the same as the middle or the end

You think it will be simple. Then come the doubts, the tests, and the word “specialist.” The fertility path starts before you know you’re on it.