
The MOOBment
Ep. 32 - Gender Disappointment, Altered Dreams & Finding Joy in the Family You Have | Katherine Asbery.
What happens when the family you imagined isn’t the family you get? Laurie Ann sits down with Katherine Asbery, clinical psychologist and author of Altered Dreams: Living with Gender Disappointment, for an honest conversation about gender disappointment, raising three sons, longing for a daughter, and ultimately adopting a baby girl. Katherine shares the complicated emotions of loving her boys deeply while still grieving the daughter she had imagined, and how she learned to separate those two truths. Together, they tackle the shame and judgment surrounding gender disappointment, the expectations we place on motherhood, and what it means when your dreams for your family take an unexpected turn.

