{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Evolving Together","title":"18 - When the Baby Never Comes: Finding Your Way in the Life You Didn’t Plan With Ashley Anderson","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3065,"description":"Sometimes you can want something desperately, do everything you possibly can to make it happen, and still not get the ending you hoped for.\nThat's where my conversation with Ashley Anderson begins. Ashley spent years trying to have a baby, navigating infertility, endometriosis, surgeries, fertility treatments and all of the emotional and financial exhaustion that comes with it. Eventually, she and her husband had to ask a really difficult question: How much more are we willing to do?\nAshley doesn't pretend she isn't sad about not having children. She is. But she has also learned that she can grieve what she didn't get while being genuinely happy with the life she has.\nWe talk about infertility, marriage, money, health, the pressure women feel to have children, the incredibly insensitive things people sometimes say, and what it looks like to create a meaningful life when it doesn't look like the one you imagined.\n\nAs Ashley says, \"Your book has more chapters left in it.\" \nAbout Ashley Anderson\nAshley owns Functional Fitness of Pass Christian, Mississippi. She is a personal trainer turned coach, where the focus isn't just on the gym, it's building a lifestyle of health.  Using fitness and practical lifestyle coaching, her and her team help athletes (of all ages) live pain-free, unstoppable lives. \n\nAshley holds a degree in Movement & Sports Science from Purdue and puts a focus on healing the gastrointestinal system (your gut/microbiome) and balancing hormones. She’s also currently participating in the Active Life Professional mentorship program. \n\nGet in touch with Ashley Anderson\nFunctional Fitness Pass Christian 228-900-9917 or coach@ffpasschristian.com \nhttps://www.facebook.com/share/19Gv7UYBx2/?mibextid=wwXIfr\n\nhttps://www.instagram.com/ashley_ffpc/\nhttps://www.instagram.com/functionalfitness_pc/\n\nAbout the Podcast\n\nEvolving Together is a space for candid conversations about all the messy things happening in midlife — relationships, identity shifts, parenting,...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/UUHXdkpWTb-AcCSgAPMk3zPWh_1BV-NdNYBqXm6aYlc/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8yZTU2/YThhMTM4ZDBiNTRl/NWM5ZWZhYzk1MTU5/NWRhMS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}