A publication by amateur writer, dog mum, marketing strategist, and mindset growth and adventure seeker Katie Dunn.

I write about the glow, the satisfaction, the happiness and the delight that can come after. After not getting what you thought you wanted. After learning that your life path will involve ‘otherhood’, and not motherhood. After finding yourself on a path you are not really sure about. After experiencing something that turned your life upside down. I write about the success story that is IVF not working out. Because that is also a success story.

When I was in the throes of dealing with difficult life shit like divorce and infertility, I wanted to see the women living their best lives without the kids they thought they might have. I wanted to see stories of women moving on and embracing lives full of hope, travel, joy, love, trials and misfortunes, business ventures, peaceful days, freedom and adventure. I needed stories of women grabbing life by the reigns after fertility treatment without the ‘outcome’. Of women living life outside the blueprint that society gave us.

So this is where Afterglow comes in. Most of my writing here is about the glow, the satisfaction, the happiness and the delight that can come after. After not getting what you thought you wanted. After learning that your life path will involve ‘otherhood’, and not motherhood. After finding yourself on a path you are not really sure about. After experiencing something that turned your life upside down.

There will be sprinkles of the infertility experience because I feel so strongly about the need to redefine the way this is understood. But for the most most part, Afterglow is life outside the blueprint, finding delight in the unknown, unexpected and lesser known paths.

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