Redefining Womanhood: Beyond Fertility & Expectations

2025-07-09

✨ This isn’t just about infertility. It’s about grief that no one sees. ✨ What do you do when the one dream you held closest… doesn’t come true? In this vulnerable episode of Love, Lindsay, I’m opening up about the kind of grief that doesn’t come from a funeral—the grief of unfulfilled dreams, infertility, and the quiet ache of PCOS. From transvaginal ultrasounds to staph infections, hormone crashes to hot girl walks, this is the full story: the healing, the heartbreak, the hope. We talk:

✨ This isn’t just about infertility. It’s about grief that no one sees. ✨

What do you do when the one dream you held closest… doesn’t come true?

In this vulnerable episode of Love, Lindsay, I’m opening up about the kind of grief that doesn’t come from a funeral—the grief of unfulfilled dreams, infertility, and the quiet ache of PCOS. From transvaginal ultrasounds to staph infections, hormone crashes to hot girl walks, this is the full story: the healing, the heartbreak, the hope.

We talk:

📦 Unboxing old journals in my Michigan basement and the memories that wrecked me
💔 The diagnosis that changed everything (and how I finally got doctors to listen)
🧠 The psychology of letting go when the dream of motherhood feels like it’s slipping away
🌈 Self-compassion, reframing, and finding beauty in Plan B
🏖 My “13 Beaches to Heal My Soul” list—and how I’m rewriting what summer looks like