S4E04: Holiday Horror Stories: Ten Tips for Navigating Infertility, with Dr. Niko Wilson

One in six people worldwide experience infertility, according to the World Health Organization.    As the holiday season focuses on the celebration of children and families, infertility creates its own holiday horror story for individuals and relationships who experience it.   We're excited to have Dr. Niko Wilson, director of the Couples and Family Therapy program at William James College, join us for a special episode of Sexvangelicals.   Dr. Wilson's research focuses on the qualitative experience of infertility; also, each of the three of us have been personally impacted by infertility in some capacity. Join us for conversations about:

• Being Seen During the Holidays (6:30):  
• Pressures of Distance and Proximity (12:00): 
• Gatekeeping Grief During IVF (15:00)
• Benefits of Relational Satisfaction (18:00
• Children and the Holidays (26:00)
• Navigating Feeling Invisible (32:00)
• Wanting to be Supportive Without Knowing How (34:00)
• Communicating and Sitting with Grief (38:00)
• Societal Acknowledgement (41:00)
• Grieving within a Positive Moment (43:00)
• Endometriosis During the Holidays (46:00)
• Emotional Aftercare and Rest During the Holidays (53:00)