Fertility struggles touch nearly every part of life.
The medical appointments are one piece. There is also the waiting. The uncertainty. Hope rising and falling with every cycle. Pregnancy announcements you want to celebrate that somehow still hurt. Questions about your body, your future, your relationships, and sometimes your sense of who you are.
Through all of it, the rest of the world keeps moving like normal.
Holding Hope in the Waiting is a six-week online support group for people navigating infertility, fertility treatment, and IVF who want a place where they do not have to explain why this is hard.
Inside the group
A place where you can hold both
Hope and disappointment. Gratitude and grief. Strength and exhaustion.
There does not have to be one right way to feel.
Rather than following a rigid curriculum, sessions respond to what the group needs while working through themes like:
Grief and ambiguous loss
Treatment anxiety
The emotional roller coaster of waiting
Relationships and intimacy
Navigating pregnancy announcements
Family gatherings and social situations
Identity and self-worth
Coping with uncertainty
Holding onto hope without denying the hard parts
You may still be waiting. You do not have to wait alone.
Who leads it
Your Facilitator
Sophia Nagornaya
Group facilitator · Pivot Counseling
Sophia also leads Finding Your Footing, our young adult support and skills group.
The details
Format, Schedule, and Investment
Format
Online
Length
6 weekly sessions
Structure
Closed group. Members move through the six weeks together.
Approach
Responsive to the group rather than a fixed curriculum.
Led by
Sophia Nagornaya
Starts
Late September to mid-October, once the group has enough members
$750 for the full series
$125 per session. Nothing is due when you join the interest list.
Join the list
Join The Fertility Support Group Interest List
Some groups run on set schedules, and some need enough interest before a new cohort starts. Joining an interest list does not obligate you to enrol.
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