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How to Set Boundaries During Infertility (Without Ruining Christmas)
Reproductive Grief Christen Reed, LMFT 12/17/25 Reproductive Grief Christen Reed, LMFT 12/17/25

How to Set Boundaries During Infertility (Without Ruining Christmas)

Setting boundaries during infertility can feel especially hard at Christmas. Here’s how to protect your heart during family gatherings—without guilt.

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The emotional grief of reproductive loss gets talked about. The physical experience? Rarely.

This one is for the bodies that went through something real and never got to hear that it mattered.

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Two best friends. Two 40th birthdays. One trip to London in between.

I didn’t plan for it to also mark one year of private practice. It just did. And when I realized that, I stood on a street in Kensington and felt something crack open in the
It was never “just” a medical emergency.

An ectopic pregnancy can change everything in an instant—your body, your future, your sense of safety.

You might have lost a fallopian tube. You might have taken medication you didn’t
You’re allowed to take up space in your healing.

Even when others don’t understand.
Even when your grief doesn’t look “typical.”
Even when it’s messy, quiet, or still unfolding.

There’s no one right way to
Hot take: journaling isn’t automatically regulating for infertility anxiety.

Infertility already over-activates the analytical part of your brain.
You’re tracking, calculating, replaying, anticipating.

Unstructured journaling can uninte
Last night, Benito reminded me of something I talk about with clients all the time.

Joy doesn’t mean the grief is gone.
It means you’re still here.

Watching Bad Bunny dance, smile, and fully inhabit joy on the biggest stage in the world
Reproductive grief has a way of quietly taking over everything.

Your calendar.
Your energy.
Your sense of who you are outside of trying.

If your life feels small right now, it’s not because infertility “won.”
It’s often beca
I’ve been thinking a lot about something that’s coming up in so many of my sessions right now.

My clients are overwhelmed by the current political climate and especially shaken after the shooting in Minneapolis this past weekend. What&rs