Campaign Story

I’m Sally. I met the love of my life and got married at 23. I always wanted to be a young mom but little did I know, motherhood never came as easily as my forever love did. It took 8 years with so much heartache, confusion, and challenge after challenge before I met our son through the first round of IVF. My entire 20s were spent obsessing over my body, my infertility, every symptom, and analyzing infertility studies. I’ve done countless tests, surgeries, acupuncture, every supplement in the market, diets…even rainforest medicine when I got so desperate and hoped the universe had a different story written for us in the stars. We were just so heartbroken and it plagued us for a long time…until we decided to jump into IVF. When my son was born, it was bliss. Surely, difficult but absolute bliss and the happiest time of my life. We hoped to expand our family just one last time. Unfortunately, I did not foresee the heartache, confusion, and challenge after challenge I’d have to face yet again. We went through all our frozen embryos in a single year without a live birth. The bliss broke, and I broke again.

The most difficult part of this entire process for me has been the mind game – needing to push through, go beyond my capacity, over my limit…and be even more resilient over and over and over again when I have no resiliency left. I am strong and bullish. But for once… I wanted to stop being strong. Stop needing to be a go-getter. Stop needing to bull my way. Stop willing things to be. Stop needing to overcome and rise above. And yet I know I’ve grown because of this. I would’ve never become someone who could go beyond their mental, emotional, and physical capacity without this. And because of that, I am better. Better as a human, a woman, and a wife. I’ve learned to push beyond my abilities and create new abilities. Because of that, my well has deepened. And because of that, I am the sun. This momentary eclipse does not waver who I’ve become, what I want, and what will come. Remember you are the sun.