What if your fertility journey isn’t your whole story?

In this episode, I’m joined by Speaker, Storytelling Coach, and author Alex Street for a conversation that completely reframes how we think about struggle, healing, identity, and transformation.

Alex believes that your story is your superpower—and together we explore what it means to move beyond defining ourselves by one painful chapter and instead begin seeing our lives through the lens of growth, meaning, and possibility.

This conversation felt especially powerful because while Alex doesn’t come from the fertility world, his work helping people uncover and own their story connects deeply to what so many women navigating IVF and infertility experience.

We talk about how our hardest moments do not become our identity.

Instead, they become part of something bigger.

If you’ve ever felt consumed by waiting, grief, uncertainty, or the pressure of fertility treatments, this episode offers a different perspective: your story is not the struggle itself—it’s the transformation happening through it.

Inside this episode, we explore:
✨ Why your story is more than your fertility journey
✨ How to move from confusion toward clarity
✨ Why transformation matters more than timelines
✨ The difference between honoring pain vs. becoming consumed by it
✨ How storytelling can support healing and identity shifts
✨ Journaling prompts to reconnect with yourself
✨ Finding peace and possibility even in difficult seasons
✨ Why your story is first for YOU before anyone else

One of my favorite reminders from Alex:
“Your story isn’t the moment. Your story is the transformation.”

If you’re walking through IVF, infertility, grief, waiting, or simply becoming someone new through life’s unexpected turns—I hope this conversation reminds you that this chapter is not your whole book.

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Website: AlexStreet.ca
Instagram: @alexstreetca
Book: StoryArc

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What if your path to motherhood didn’t look anything like you expected… but led you exactly where you were meant to be?

In this deeply moving and expansive conversation, I sit down with Alexandra Dominguez—an adoptee, adoptive mother, IVF mom, and now a guide for alternative family building—to explore the many paths to becoming a parent.

We met by chance at the gym (proof that synchronistic connections are all around), and from the moment Alexandra began sharing her story, I knew it needed to be heard.

Her journey spans IUI, unexplained infertility, adoption, a devastating disrupted adoption, IVF success, and now embryo donation—a full-circle story that highlights the complexity, grief, trust, and beauty of building a family in non-traditional ways.

This episode is for anyone navigating fertility challenges and wondering: Which path is right for me?

In This Episode, We Talk About:

• Alexandra’s experience with unexplained infertility and PCOS
• Why she chose to step away from fertility treatments and pursue adoption
• The emotional reality of a failed/disrupted adoption (and how she moved through it)
• The powerful moment that led her to her son just one month later
• How her body shifted after becoming a mom—and led her back to IVF
• Her IVF journey, including retrieval, OHSS, and a successful first transfer
• The importance of listening to your body and intuition on your fertility path
• The financial and emotional realities of adoption vs. IVF
• What it means to donate embryos—and her decision to give her remaining embryos to a close friend
• The concept of compassionate embryo transfer
• Why community and support are everything during fertility and adoption journeys
• Her new work helping others navigate IVF, adoption, surrogacy, and alternative family building

Connect with Alexandra:

Alexandra is now supporting individuals and couples as they navigate their own paths to parenthood through her work in alternative family building.

You can connect with her on Instagram:
@SonrisaFamilyBuilding

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BOOK: ‘HOLD ON, BABY! A Soulful Guide to Navigating the Ups & Downs of Infertility & IVF.’

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In this episode of Soulful IVF, I welcome Kate Ryan for an honest and healing conversation about IVF, infertility, egg donor conception, pregnancy after loss, and nervous system healing.

Kate shares her powerful 6-year fertility journey, including 3 IUIs, 5 IVF cycles, diminished ovarian reserve, endometriosis, pregnancy loss, and the emotional rollercoaster of infertility treatment.

After years of setbacks, grief, and emotional burnout, Kate and her husband were led to consider egg donation, a path that ultimately brought them their son through one embryo and one successful transfer.

This conversation beautifully explores what happens emotionally during infertility — the fear, isolation, resentment, loss of self, and the constant waiting for “the other shoe to drop.”

Kate also vulnerably opens up about her experience with pregnancy anxiety after infertility and postpartum depression after finally becoming a mother, something so many women silently struggle with after fertility treatment.

Together, Kate and I dive into the healing practices that helped her reconnect with herself:

• meditation
• breathwork
• nervous system regulation
• movement and somatic healing
• music and sound healing
• creative writing
• Reiki and spiritual tools

Kate shares how these practices helped her move from survival mode into healing and inspired her beautiful book, The Story of Us, a children’s book that celebrates all paths to family building, including assisted reproduction and donor conception.

This episode also includes a beautiful guided meditation and calming mantra practice to support women navigating IVF, infertility, pregnancy after loss, or motherhood after a long fertility journey.

If you are looking for fertility mindset support, emotional healing during IVF, or hope after infertility, this episode is for you.

What We Cover in This Episode

• IVF support and infertility healing
• 3 IUIs and 5 IVF cycles
• diminished ovarian reserve and endometriosis
• pregnancy loss and fear after infertility
• egg donor conception journey
• one embryo, one transfer success story
• pregnancy after infertility anxiety
• postpartum depression after IVF
• nervous system regulation during fertility treatment
• meditation and breathwork for IVF stress
• fertility mindset and trust
• healing through creativity and sound
• all paths to motherhood and family building

Resources + Connect with Kate: Explore Kate’s book, free breathwork, meditations, and her Intentionality in Infertility course at:
storyofus.love

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BOOK: ‘HOLD ON, BABY! A Soulful Guide to Navigating the Ups & Downs of Infertility & IVF.’

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