Childless Not by Choice: Sandra’s Story of Loss, Hope & Healing After Infant Loss

Childless Not by Choice: Sandra’s Story of Loss, Hope & Healing After Infant Loss

In this heartfelt interview, Sandra shares her deeply personal journey of navigating relationships, infertility, pregnancy loss, and ultimately coming to terms with being childless not by choice. From freezing her eggs at 36 to experiencing multiple losses, Sandra opens up about the emotional, physical, and societal challenges that come with pregnancy loss and infertility.


🔗 Read the Blog Post: https://healingafterinfantloss.com/fr...

🔗 Read Sandra's story: https://healingafterinfantloss.com/sa...


She also shares insights into the grieving process, finding community, and how she reached a place of peace and healing. If you’ve ever felt alone in your journey, this conversation is for you.


📌 Topics Covered:

• Navigating relationships while longing for motherhood

• The emotional impact of freezing eggs as a single woman

• Experiencing pregnancy loss and its long-term effects

• How infertility and loss affect relationships

• Healing after loss and embracing life beyond motherhood


✨ Connect with Sandra:

Website: https://www.childless.life

Instagram: / childless.life

Email: sandra@childless.life


Sandra is the founder of www.childless.life, an ICF Coach with a Master's in the Psychology of Coaching and a Postgraduate in Grief Therapy. She is the 2024/5 World Childless Week People Champion. and has been supporting the childless community since 2020.

Permanently childless not by choice, Sandra has experienced the deep, layered grief of this journey—facing challenges in finding a partner, freezing her eggs, enduring miscarriages, and unsuccessful IVF. Discovering World Childless Week was a turning point, leading her to host support calls and create healing spaces for others navigating childlessness.


She supports permanently childless women via individual grief therapy sessions, leading Healing Horseshoe grief circles, and running the Embracing Us community. Sandra also created the Pregnancy Loss Mini-Series for Permanently Childless Women Not by Choice, offering a dedicated space to honor pregnancy loss within CNBC experiences. She offers safe, non-judgmental support from her own lived (and in-progress) experience.


✨ Pregnancy Loss Mini Series: https://www.childless.life/service-pa...

✨ Public Webinars hosted by Sandra: https://www.childless.life/media-reso...

✨ Blog Posts: https://www.childless.life/blog

Links:

💛 Visit our website: https://healingafterinfantloss.com

🧡 Read stories & submit your own: https://healingafterinfantloss.com/stories

🩷 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/healingafterinfantloss

💜 TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@healingafterinfantloss

💙 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeT6A_CoQ_9Sdmtzea8I9yQ

💰 Donate to our fundraising here: https://healingafterinfantloss.com/fundraising

📧 Email me: rosie@healingafterinfantloss.com


Join our community and let’s walk this path together.


Disclaimer: Some of the links may be affiliate links. This means that if you click on the link and make a purchase, I may receive a small commission at no additional cost to you. Thank you for supporting Healing After Infant Loss and helping to keep this platform going!


With love and compassion,

Rosie x

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