How You Do One Thing Is How You Do Everything
There’s a saying you may have heard before: “How you do one thing is how you do everything.” For most women on the fertility journey, this phrase can feel confronting at first. You’re already carrying so much. The hopes, the disappointments, the cycle tracking, the grief that no one sees. The last thing you need is another suggestion that you’re doing something “wrong.” But when we look at this phrase through a softer, more compassionate lens, something different emerges. It becomes not a criticism but a mirror. A gentle truth-telling. An invitation into deeper self-understanding. And for many women over 35 trying to conceive, this shift in perspective becomes its own kind of healing. Fertility as a Mirror, not as a Measurement Trying to conceive asks you to face parts of yourself that everyday life might let you avoid. It reveals old wounds, unmet needs, forgotten beliefs, and the subtle ways you have been relating to yourself for years, maybe even decades. Not because y...