EP7 Conversation: Infertility with MarrGwen Dickson

I invited MarrGwen to be my first guest on the podcast because not only is she awesome, she’s walked through some of the toughest seasons with me and has given me so much help, guidance, strength and courage when I needed it most. We can’t give what we don’t already have, so it should be no surprise then that she’s cultivated her own strength and courage over the years.

I only know her as an adult, but when I think about her and her life, I think about it in 2 parts: before infertility and after. Her story is powerful and I want you to hear it… she faced something as difficult as infertility with courage, vulnerability and grace and was transformed because of it. I don’t want to put too many words around her experience because that’s for her to share, but her story of overcoming is encouraging and inspiring and whether you’ve walked this road or not, I think you’ll find some valuable takeaways in this conversation.

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Here are the two quotes she mentioned in the episode:

“When we lose our tolerance for vulnerability, joy becomes foreboding.” - Brené Brown

“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.” - Frederick Buechner  

Glennon Doyle asked her blog readers to submit essays around the topic “messy and beautiful lives” and MarrGwen shared an excerpt from the essay she submitted:

“As is often the case, the good news is the bad news: we can’t stop the messy or the beautiful. And, even when we try, it doesn’t work out. When you try to stop the messy, it ends up stopping the beautiful. And, again, it doesn’t really matter because we can’t actually stop either one of them. Moreover, we wouldn’t want to anyway, because how much messy and what kind of beautiful is nothing less than the story of our lives.”

If you’re walking through infertility and looking for support or help, visit: https://resolve.org/

Follow MarrGwen on Instagram: @marrgwen_dickson

MD photo courtesy of Jessica Watkins.