Previa Playback: Infertility Awareness with Erin & Stephen Mitchell
6/15/202654 min
In honor of Infertility Awareness Week, Sarah sits down with crowd favorites Erin and Stephen Mitchell from Couples Counseling for Parents to discuss how trying to conceive, infertility, and pregnancy loss affect relationships. From self-blame to communication breakdown, this honest conversation explores navigating this incredibly difficult journey and having hard conversations with yourself and your partner.
Erin and Stephen are the cofounders of Couples Counseling for Parents, a company focused on providing access to research-informed, psychologically sound online education for couples. Both have a clinical education—Stephen, a PhD in medical family therapy, and Erin, a master’s degree in counseling psychology—and they have a combined 23 years of experience providing counseling and education. They have been married for 16 years and have three kids.
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First 90 secondsSarah Parkhurst· Host0:00
Hey, guys. This is Sarah with the Previe Alliance Podcast. This month we are replaying our most downloaded episodes. These episodes are the ones that has resonated the most with you guys. So if you're a longtime listener, this is a great refresher, and share this with a friend who may be new. If you're new, welcome, and we hope that these episodes are impactful to you like it has been for others. Thank you for being with us, and stay tuned. [Relaxing music] Hi, guys. Welcome to Previe Alliance Podcast. This is Sarah, and this week, in honor of National Infertility Awareness Week, I have the honor of bringing back Erin and Steven Mitchell from Couples Counseling for Parents to talk about how it impacts a couple when you're trying to conceive, walking the road of infertility. So gonna give a trigger warning for this episode. If you are not in the right head space for this, please pause and come back to us next week or listen to us when you're ready. So stay tuned. Hi, guys. Welcome back to Previe Alliance Podcast. Um, if you guys know from my intro, our favorite couple's back. [laughs] Erin and Steven Mitchell, Couples Counseling for Parents, and this week I am gonna say, I said in intro, I'm gonna put a trigger warning. We are talking about infertility, trying to conceive. So if you're not in that head space, it's too close, you maybe just had a loss or you're just like, "I, that's not part of me right