S5:E10 - The Considering Stage: Why Making the Decision is the Hardest Part
About this episode
The episode discusses the challenges women face in the considering stage of solo motherhood with guest Carrie Meckler.
Why Making the Decision is the Hardest Part — with Carrie Meckler This is a different kind of episode. No birth story. No IVF timeline. No newborn update. Just a conversation about the stage that doesn't get talked about nearly enough — the one before any of that happens. Carrie Meckler is a licensed therapist based in North Carolina who is also a solo mum by choice to a beautiful two-year-old boy. She runs a six-week group program specifically for women in the considering stage, and she joins me this week to talk about what she sees in her clients — and what she went through herself — when women are first sitting with the idea that this might be their path. Because here's the thing: making this decision is genuinely the hardest part of the entire solo motherhood journey. Harder than the fertility treatment. Harder than the newborn phase. And almost nobody talks about that. We cover a lot of ground in this conversation — the grief that comes with letting go of the life you always thought you'd have, the fear of judgment, the pressure of the biological clock, the question of how long to keep waiting, and what it actually looks like to start taking steps forward without having it…
Topics covered
- decision making
- solo motherhood
- considering stage
- grief
- judgment
- biological clock
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- S5:E6 - Megan & Jasper
- S5:E5 - Jane, Jude & Charlie
- S5:E4 - Hayley & Oliver
- S5:E3 - Rhiannon & Bunny
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