Hi, I'm Steph.
Over the past two years my husband (Sylvester) and I have been going through our fertility journey. We aren’t to the parents stage yet and might not ever get there but we want it. As I have been navigating this I have tried to focus on the mental health side.
Focusing on mental health has had different looks but one that stuck is journaling. Journaling turned into writing a letter to my future mom self and now has led me here- to this podcast and blog.
However- my journal entries and letters are not just focused on the fertility journey - they touch on other things like my relationships and career. I find that as women we get very sucked into our fertility journey or being a mom that we often forget about everything else.
I find myself in conversations that are centered around the fertility process and never being asked ‘how do you handle it all’ it's always about how many shots, have you started another round, when will you go to the next step. I also see this with people who are already moms.
But we all have so much more going on.
My career is important to me. Relationships are very important to me. Making memories, travel, new experiences are all important to me.
You get the gist. The fertility piece of my journey is just one part of my journey and me. As it is with all people on a motherhood journey.
Which is where Dear Mom Me comes in. My mission is to bring a larger conversation to the table. I want to hear about the balance of being on a motherhood journey. How we do it all, how we show up as our best self and importantly how we handle everything we are juggling.
About Dear Mom Me
The Letters
My journaling has evolved to letters to my future mom self so I can back and remember what I had to tell myself in the moment. Moments of the good and the bad. Each mini series will start with one of the letters and serve as the foundation for the conversations to follow.
Picture: Me journaling.
The Conversations
My vision is to create a community through conversation and story telling. Speaking with some of my favorite people, experts in their field, and of course- moms, people who want to be moms, those who don’t know and those who don’t want to be. Taking the topics beyond motherhood. That is just one part of us, we are so much more so lets talk about what it takes to do it all and be our best.
Picture: Where the conversations happen.
Motherhood Defined
An individual's own unique way of being a mother. Currently a mother, striving to be a mother or deciding if they want to be a mother. We use the term to encompass EVERYONE to meet them where they are on THEIR journey.
Picture: Two of my favorite moms. My mother in law and my mother.