Fertility News: Press Release
Kristen Magnacca, Author and Fertility Coach To Receive Prestigious National Award
May, 2009, Sandwich: Sandwich resident Kristen Magnacca, an expert on the emotional aspects of infertility, will receive the prestigious Night of Hope award for Best Book, Coping, from RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association at its 12th annual Night of Hope gala. The event will take place on Tuesday, June 2 at the renowned Tavern on the Green in New York City.
Ms. Magnacca is being honored for her book Love and Infertility: Survival Strategies for Balancing Infertility, Marriage, and Life. She is the first recipient of the award given “to an individual/organization whose printed book enhances the lives of people with infertility with a message of how to cope and live with the disease.” Love and Infertility is unique among the many books devoted to the subject, focusing on strengthening the loving relationship that is the impetus for most couples’ decision to start a family. RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association is the nation’s oldest and most respected infertility support, education and advocacy group.
“RESOLVE congratulates Kristen Magnacca and all the 2009 Night of Hope Award recipients,“ said Barbara Collura, executive director of RESOLVE. “We’re honored as a patient advocacy group to be able to bring together the family building community to celebrate our achievements.” Adds Magnacca: “I am thrilled to be recognized by RESOLVE, an organization I have long admired for its mission of supporting and educating men and women facing infertility issues. I am motivated more than ever to continue my work helping those on their family building journey.”
Written after her own challenging experiences with infertility, Kristen Magnacca shares her and her husband’s story and provides much-needed life-saving strategies in the book. During the infertility journey, love and romance can often take a back seat to the basal thermometers, hormone shots, and medical procedures that millions of aspiring parents hope will get them pregnant. Infertility can cause frustration, hopelessness, miscommunication, and a radical change in couples’ daily lives—and in their relationships. The book, now published in paperback, explains how to keep the love alive while trying to create a family.
Drawn from Magnacca’s nationally presented seminar “Strategies for Survival— Balancing Infertility, Marriage, and Life,” Love and Infertility focuses on the importance of sharing and communicating so that a couple can move successfully through infertility without allowing it to become all-encompassing and overwhelming. With honest humor and candid personal accounts, Magnacca reveals tips, provides exercises, and shares rare bits of wisdom to guide couples through the hardships and help them to work as a team, evolving from a childless couple to expectant parents.
Magnacca also is the author of Girlfriend to Girlfriend: A Fertility Companion (1stBooks Library, 2000). Kristen Magnacca has served as an expert on the emotional aspects of infertility, testifying before the US Senate in the spring of 2000 about the importance of government funding for fertility research and holistic treatment. She has been highlighted in national publications and broadcast media including NBC’s The Today Show, Woman’s World magazine, PBS’ Health Week and The Boston Globe. She also is a board member and volunteer of RESOLVE of the Bay State. Kristen and her husband Mark realized a happy ending to their own infertility experience and are the proud parents of two children.
To request a copy of Love and Infertility, or an interview with Magnacca, call Terri Davidson at 978-273-0254. For more information about Ms Magnacca, visit www.kristenmagnacca.com.