Unclassified Woman

Welcome and today's guest is Lisa Manterfield! Lisa is the creator of Life Without Baby.com and the author of the award-winning memoir, I’m Taking My Eggs and Going Home: How One Woman Dared to Say No to Motherhood. She offers workshops and popular e-books. Her new book, Life Without Baby: Surviving and Thriving When Motherhood Doesn’t Happen, is recently available. She lives a contented life in southern CA with her husband and cat. Lisa has successfully created an online community that gives a voice to those without children. Let’s chat with Lisa! In this episode, you’ll hear the following: Lisa’s child-free life is not really by choice, but by circumstance. She always wanted and expected to have children, but experienced fertility issues and a unpleasant fertility clinic encounter. She and her husband came to the realisation, “We ARE already a family—just a family of two.” Lisa explains the anger, grief, and confusion that plagued her for a long time. The loss of any hope of biological children was a HUGE