My spouse and I watch stand-up specials every night and analyze how comedians turn pain into laughter, but when we try to apply that to our own struggles with infertility, everything feels too raw or too sacred to joke about. We're stuck between wanting to find lightness and feeling guilty for wanting to laugh about something so serious.
More people experience this than they realize.
They're caught between the healing potential of humor and the fear that laughter might diminish the gravity of their suffering.
“Where Are You with Stand-up comedy as examined life?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.