by Merle | May 6, 2019 | Adoption, Childfree Life, Counseling, Deciding, Parenting
By Caitlin Gibson | Read original story at the Washington Post. They arrive anxious for an answer. Or maybe, finally, a sense of peace. They arrive because they haven’t been able to resolve the biggest question of their lives: Do I want to be a parent? And so they...
by Merle | Sep 5, 2018 | Childfree Life, Counseling, Merle in the Media
Scared to Have a Baby? New York Times reporter Hannah Seligson interviews me on millennials’ ambivalence about parenthood. She features my Baby Decision workshops and the book. The print version appeared in the Style section on 8/30/18, but the article also appears...
by Merle | Jun 10, 2017 | Childfree Life, Communication, Counseling, Parenting
Kayla Sheets, genetic counselor and hostess of Vibrant Gene, brings intelligence and playfulness to our discussion about finding the wisdom and courage to make either decision. I demonstrate my “Chair Dialogue” technique for cutting through ambivalence to reveal a...
by Merle | Jun 9, 2017 | Communication, Counseling, Fertility, Parenting
After the interview described above, Kayla facilitates a lively panel: a childfree man in his 60s, a midlife working mother of two, and the show’s own 25-year-old producer who was shocked, when she did my “Chair Dialogue” exercise, to discover a reversal...
by Merle | Jun 8, 2017 | Communication, Counseling, Parenting, Relationships
This Bustle article, “Eleven Relationship Problems that Won’t Go Away On Their Own,” rates disagreement about childbearing as the number one deal-breaker of all. Bustle provides a link to my Good Therapy article, “Should You Marry Someone Who...
by Merle | Jun 8, 2017 | Counseling
You may know her as the author of The Hunger Fix, but physician Pamela Peeke and her co-hostess’s show empowers women to take charge of all aspects of women’s health. We challenge the idea that motherhood is necessary for all women, and talk about exercises in the...
