Crazier Things Have Happened

Stacey Webber

Description

This memoir is about the many challanges faced on the journey to Motherhood. It's a powerful story of perserverance and love over fear and despair.
Crazier Things Have Happened, is my memoir about my journey through the world of infertility and pregnancy loss, and how it shaped my life choices, and how I learned to live from love and not fear. I hope to inspire my readers to find their own true path, to follow their own inner compass and learn to tune into their intuition for guidance, how to tell by how you feel whether you are going with your own desires or against them. We all have inner guidance but it’s up to each of us individually to silence our inner critic and amplify our inner champion, by focusing on the blessings, love and joy already present in our lives, and in doing so allow more to naturally flow into our everyday experiences. This is my story of a mother’s enduring hope and eternal love, and in sharing my story I wish to inspire others to believe in not just what is probable in life, but to what is possible.

Sujets

• Personal Memoirs
• Inspirational
• Biography
• Resilience
• Fertility
• Infertility
• Miscarriage
• Résilience (physique)
• Autobiography

Informations

• Publié par: Balboa Press
• Date de parution: 28 avril 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798765241462
• Langue: English

Extrait

Crazier THINGS HAVE HAPPENED
The memoir of one woman’s journey of survival through the world of infertility and the discovery of a life full of synchronicities and blessings!
STACEY WEBBER


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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
To the Reader
Donations
 
Chapter 1Becoming a Mom for the First Time
Chapter 2Joseph’s Story
Chapter 3The Diagnosis
Chapter 4What the Heck Is a Blighted Ovum?
Chapter 5They Don’t Know What the (Bleep) They Are Doing!
Chapter 6The Hope Stone
Chapter 7The Suckhole of Infertility
Chapter 8The Tubal and the Tumor
Chapter 9IVF, Facing my Fears, and Letting Go
Chapter 10Am I on a Hidden Camera Show?
Chapter 11Life with Boys
Chapter 12The Love Stone
Chapter 13A Mother’s Love Is Forever!
Chapter 14A Blessing or a Curse, It’s Up to You!
Chapter 15Extraordinary Possibilities
 
Books of Interest
About the Author

I would like to dedicate this book to my family.
To my husband, you are my rock. Thank you for always supporting and loving me unquestionably, and for always having faith in me and trusting me!
To my children, you are my whole heart, my reason for being, and I love you more than words can convey. May you always reach for your greatest dreams and know that you are so very loved!
To my brother, I am so proud of you. You are the best example of what a great person is, for your children and mine. An amazing brother, dad, and uncle, you are the most generous soul I know, and I am so thankful for you and your amazing children!
I also wrote this book in honor of my mom, my first and best friend, my confidant, and my biggest teacher. Thanks for always showing me that love is eternal!
To my first incredible editor, Sarah Lamb. You resonated with why I wanted to share my story, and I thank you for all your compassion and belief in the importance of getting my story out there, to help and encourage others on their own journeys. I’m forever grateful my instincts pulled me to you!
I am so thankful for everyone at Balboa Press, for all your hard work and dedication to make this book finally happen. Much love and appreciation to all!
I would also like to give a shout-out to my amazing acupuncturist, Shelley Kelley Sullivan, as you were also my therapist and confidant, and I can never thank you enough!
Also, to all my friends mentioned here by name or anonymously, you are also my family, and I’m so proud to have the support and strength of your friendships along this ride of life. You know who you are.
To my in-laws, sister-in-law, and nieces, you are all beautiful, and I love you!
To my cousin, Steph, I love you! You will never know how your conviction and strength inspired me that day, and still does.
Lastly, to all the doctors who are a part of our story, you know who you are, and I have nothing but love, respect, and appreciation for all of you!
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I would like to thank authors Esther and Jerry Hicks, and Abraham, as well as the late and great Wayne Dyer, for their influences on me. I have read and studied all of them, and the spiritual messages they have conveyed have resonated wholeheartedly with me. If you are familiar with their teachings, I am sure you will pick up on their influences on my life as you read this book. I would like to thank these amazing souls for showing me the power of quieting my mind so I can hear my inner being, and for showing me that life is simply about the energy you give.
This morning, I found this quote in my inbox that I would like to share with you. Perfect timing, I would say! Just another synchronicity of life showing me how perfect divine timing is. Thank you!
“D on’t get lost in the diagnosis, the medicine, or in the statistics about what somebody else did about it. If you don’t feel good, it’s because you’re not thinking in a way that allows the Energy to flow. You could just get really, really mad at someone you love and make every muscle in your body stiff. And you would ask, ‘Why does my body feel this way?’ And we say, because you’ve had a vibrational tug-of-war going on … Stop looking for anything other than your mental and emotional state of being as answers to why you feel how you feel in your body. It is all vibrational—no exception! And when you get that, then it doesn’t matter what diagnosis has been given to you—it doesn’t matter—it’s temporary.”
Our Love
Esther (Abraham and Jerry)
And also, from the amazing Deepak Chopra, who has influenced my life with his incredible wisdom, here is a quote I recently came across: “You can believe the diagnosis, not the prognosis.”
What this means to me is that doctors can only tell you how other people have handled a similar diagnosis, but no one knows you, your vibrational level, what you believe, and what you can conceive, because no one is exactly like you. Only you get to decide what you want to believe; only you have the power to believe what is possible for you! You do not have to limit your possibilities to what doctors or your parents or your family or other people believe. You get to control your power, and if you can conceive your desire, it is possible for you!
INTRODUCTION
As far back as I can remember, I have always wanted to be a mom. This story is about my journey to motherhood and the many challenges I faced and overcame along the way. I have been pregnant seven times in a span of ten years on my journey to motherhood. I’ve gone through pregnancy, miscarriage, multiple intrauterine inseminations, multiple in vitro fertilizations, a blighted ovum, a tubular pregnancy, and the rare-disease diagnosis of a child. However, the joy of motherhood became possible for me and is my greatest blessing, even with all these challenges. I have also endured my own mortality and the physical loss of my mother; yet, she has continued to show me the eternalness of her love and how, through the lens of tears and laughter, life still is more blessed and whole than I ever imagined!
Through a fresh understanding of spirituality, science, and the power of belief, I encourage the reader to find his or her own path of truth, with anything that may challenge them, and not to just follow what I am saying. More than ever, women and couples are faced with fertility challenges. This book is a reminder to believe in the desire of motherhood calling to these women and couples, and to inspire them to have hope and fait