Maya Shankar

You mentioned you're type A, I'm type A too.

I'm used to like working my way through hard problems, to hustling my way around barriers.

In the fertility space, there's no such thing as quote, trying harder.

The universe doesn't care how much you want this outcome, right?

Things will just happen as they happen.

And so it is one of the, it's one of those spaces where it's the ultimate surrender in many ways, right?

And my husband comes in, Jimmy, and he's a software engineer, and he unknowingly engaged me in one of these self-affirmation exercises.

He said, Maya, let's just name a couple things we're grateful for.

And I remember in that moment being like, bro, no, I'm not doing this toxic positivity nonsense, okay?

You go over there with your Instagram tiles and you do this exercise.

I'm just going to lay here and feel bad for us, okay?

But, you know, it was coming from such an earnest place and Jimmy was looking so sweet.

So I was like, fine, I'll just do this and maybe it'll get him off my case.

And so I naturally started to focus on the parts of my life that were not threatened by this change we were going through.

I said, well, I'm so grateful that I'm an aunt to my six nieces and nephews.

I love that I get to host a slight change of plans.

Like, how cool is it that I get to talk to amazing people from my closet in my apartment?

That's incredible.

I love my Zoom workouts with my trainer, Matt.

We gossip about The Bachelor and Love is Blind, and it really lifts up my day to get that endorphin rush.