EP135: The hidden losses inside an infertility journey — with Natasha D'Arcangelo
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What does grief look like when there's no baby to mourn — but the losses keep coming anyway?
In this episode, I sit down with Natasha D'Arcangelo, licensed mental health counsellor and Chief Clinical Officer at LB Health, to talk about a side of reproductive loss that rarely gets named: the cumulative grief of infertility.
Natasha shares her own ten-year journey to motherhood — including two rounds of IVF, four fibroid removal surgeries, a hysterectomy at 35, a failed domestic adoption match, and an international adoption process that spanned a global pandemic. It's a story full of grief, resilience, plot twists, and hard-won wisdom.
But this episode isn't just personal. Natasha brings her clinical lens to everything — and the result is a conversation that's equal parts raw and practical.
In this episode we cover:
- Why infertility is a grief experience, even when there's never been a positive pregnancy test
- The shame spiral of feeling like your body "had one job" — and how therapy helped Natasha recognise and release that narrative
- What it's really like to match with a birth mother, prepare your home, and then have it fall through
- The layers of loss inside adoption journeys that people rarely talk about
- How to find the right therapist (and why it's okay — expected, even — to try more than one)
- Red flags to watch for in a therapeutic relationship
- Why the people around you, however well-meaning, often make it worse — and what actually helps
- The unexpected role her dog played in pulling her out of depression
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If this episode resonated with you, you might also be interested in exploring what it means to process reproductive loss as trauma — not just grief. That's exactly what we explore inside the Pregnancy Loss Recovery Method™.
