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Tracy Sainsbury

Tracy Sainsbury

UK-based specialist fertility counsellor (Lister Fertility Clinic; London Women's Clinic Group), advisory board member of The Fertility Alliance, and co-author of "Making Friends with your Fertility."

Sep 20, 2026

15:58
Yeah.
15:59
If you're stressed and you're beating yourself up for being stressed, we feel like we're failing, and that fear of failing intensifies.
16:08
The medication, especially the progesterone, it's evil.
16:11
It's not hallucinogenic, but it makes us more aware of how we're feeling.
16:15
So if we're feeling vulnerable, insecure, lacking confidence, lacking motivation because fertility journey has been long and hard, if we are thinking, "Come on, shouldn't be feeling this way," we beat ourselves up.
16:27
We become even more and more deplete.

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