Ep. 55 - Embracing a Childfree Life after Infertility with Emilie Chuong

About this episode

Emilie Chuong shares her infertility journey and the decision to embrace a childfree life.

For this year's National Infertility Awareness Week, we wanted to give the spotlight to a beloved friend, fan, and contributor to our podcast. Joining us today from her usual behind-the-scenes role is Emilie Chuong, the gracious Japanese/Chinese American photographer who took our podcast photos and headshots to help us launch Season 2! Emilie walks us through her infertility journey with her husband, which entailed all the tests and a year of IUIs before attempting to try IVF. But literally j...

People in this episode

Host: Healing the Tigress Podcast

Guest: Emilie Chuong

Topics covered

• infertility
• childfree life
• personal journey
• photography
• mental health

Keywords

• infertility
• IVF
• childfree
• Emilie Chuong
• mental health
• photography
• personal story

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Healing the Tigress Podcast

Places: Japan, China

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