Risa Kerslake is a nurse turned freelance writer from the Midwest. Her work has appeared in Momtastic, mom.me, and FertilitySmarts, among other sites. Her passions (and what she writes about obsessively) include parenting, relationships, and infertility. Follow her on Facebook, Twitter, and her website risakerslakewrites.com.
As someone who went through six years of infertility and who’s now in therapy for it, please stop telling people going through infertility to just relax.