When Trying to Conceive is Taking Longer Than You Expected...
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Someone else's pregnancy announcement can send you into a spin.
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You can be happy for them. And heartbroken for yourself. Both can be true.
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You don't have to talk yourself out of how hard this is.
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You don't have to make yourself feel positive.
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You don't have to find a reason to be grateful.
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You might just need a moment
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a few minutes to help you come back to yourself.
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Start with the moment you're in ↓
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Life is made up of tough, beautiful and ordinary moments. How we move through them shapes how life feels.
When having a baby is taking longer than you expected, the tough moments can seem like they far outweigh the rest, particularly since the ordinary moments can seem heavier because of everything you're carrying – even going for a walk and seeing parents laughing with their little one can hit you hard.
Need a Moment is a collection of short audio companions, each 1–5 minutes long, that guide you through your moments — whether that's preparing for how you want to show up, steadying yourself in the middle of it, putting it down afterwards, or slowing down enough to really soak it in.
It's micro support for the middle of real life, in moments you need it.
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Because when having a baby doesn't come easily...
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you're carrying more than most people realise.
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You're not imagining it, this is a lot to hold.
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When you're already carrying this much, even the smallest addition of support can make such a difference to how it feels to be in it.
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It isn't one difficult experience...
It's hundreds of moments.
​The negative test.
The appointment you've been dreading.
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Tracking. Testing. Waiting.
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Wondering whether to test today...
or wait until tomorrow.
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Trying not to overanalyse every symptom. Trying not to get your hopes up. Getting your hopes up anyway.
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Their baby shower. Their complaints about parenthood. The well-meaning comments or questions that land harder than people realise.
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Living every month somewhere between what is... and what if...
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You can feel exhausted from thinking about it all the time — the timing, the planning, the possible future scenarios, the things to try — often while feeling like nobody really understands how much space it all takes up in your heart and mind.​​
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Especially since this season isn't happening in isolation... Life still keeps going.
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Maybe there's work pressure sitting on top of it.
Maybe your relationship is feeling the strain.
Maybe there's grief that never really got the space to be felt.
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We often don't get to just focus on one thing at a time.
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You don't get to put everything else on hold while you're trying to have a baby.
So support doesn't need to focus on just one thing at a time either.
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You don't need to work out which part is "heaviest" before you're allowed to feel whatever you're feeling.
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You just need somewhere to put yourself for a few minutes.
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As you are.
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Carrying whatever you're actually carrying in the moment you're in.
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What if you could feel a little more supported through those moments.
​Often it isn't just the moment itself that shapes the rest of our day.
It's what we carry afterwards.
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The thoughts.
The tension.
The guilt.
The overthinking.
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The conversation you replay all afternoon.
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The worry you carry into tomorrow.
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One difficult moment quietly becomes the next.
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Before long, you're reacting instead of responding.
Surviving instead of being present.
Feeling further away from yourself.
And if nothing changes, the load builds.
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Not necessarily because any one thing is enormous. But because it keeps accumulating.
Moment after moment. Month after month.​




But change doesn't have to begin with something big.
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Sometimes it begins with a few minutes of support.
We often underestimate the ripple effect of small moments of support.




How they can help soften what we're carrying.




How they can help change what we take into the next moment.




How they can help us feel a little more steady in the middle of uncertainty.

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Imagine this...
You've just left another appointment.
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You close the car door.
Your chest feels heavy.
Normally...
this is where your mind keeps going.
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Replaying.
Racing ahead.
Overthinking.
Spiraling.
Trying to solve everything.
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Instead...
you press play.
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For the next four minutes, you don't have to work out what to do.
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You don't have to force yourself to be positive.
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You don't have to fix anything.
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You simply let someone gently guide you through.
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Four minutes later...
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nothing about your circumstances has changed.
But something inside you has.
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You feel a little steadier.
A little more able to choose what you carry into the next part of your day.
The spiral hasn't gathered the same momentum.
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That changes the drive home.
Which changes dinner.
Which changes tonight.
Which changes what you carry into tomorrow.
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Sometimes that's all we need.
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What is Need a Moment?
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Need a Moment is a collection of 15 short audio companions, each 1–5 minutes long, that guide you through the tough, beautiful and ordinary moments that shape how life feels.
They're made for before, during and after moments inside seasons where you're already carrying a lot, when you need support the most but you don't have the time, energy or brain space to remember everything that's supposed to help.
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The audios aren't TTC-specific. They're moment-specific. You bring your own story.
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Need a Moment is what I wish I'd had in the years I was trying to conceive – short, easy to access ways to help me come back to myself in the middle of it.
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Each companion is a calm, spoken experience designed to help you either:
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Prepare for how you show up— before something difficult, or something you want to be present for.
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Steady yourself — when you're in the middle of it and don't want things to spill over.
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Put it down — afterwards, so the moment doesn't follow you through the rest of your day.
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Soak it in — when you want to slow down enough to really receive something beautiful.
And because they're spoken rather than written, you don't have to generate the words yourself when your mind is already full. You don't have to do anything.
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You simply listen.
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Moments when you might press play...
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💜 After another pregnancy announcement...
Your chest tightens.
You type "Congratulations!"
Then you close Instagram
...and you're left holding all the feelings that arrived with it.
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Press play:
• After a Hard Moment
• Carrying More Than Most People Realise
• A Small Moment For You
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💜 Sitting in the waiting room...
They call someone else's name.
You're still waiting.
You scroll your phone... without taking in a single word.
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Press play:
• Before the Moment Check-In (full)
• Between Moments 2-minute Reset
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💜 After the test wasn't what you hoped...
You knew this was a possibility.
It still hurts.
Sometimes your mind starts looking for someone to blame.
More often than not...
it chooses you.
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Press play:
• After a Hard Moment
• When You're Being Hard on Yourself
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💜 Lying awake at 2am...
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Your body is exhausted.
Your mind isn't.
The thoughts keep circling.
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Press play:
• When You Wake in the Night and Sleep Hasn't Come Back Yet
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💜 When you're feeling the weight of it all...
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Even with loving and supportive people around you. It feels like no one really understands everything you're carrying.
The emotional exhaustion can feel so heavy and lonely.
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Press play:
• Carrying More Than Most People Realise
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💜 After you've snapped at someone you love...
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Maybe it was your partner.
Maybe they didn't do anything wrong.
You've simply been carrying so much for so long...
and something spilled over.
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Now guilt has joined everything else you're already carrying.
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Press play:
• When You're Feeling Prickly, Reactive or Overwhelmed
• After You Weren't at Your Best
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💜 Before their baby shower...
You've been thinking about today all week.
You've almost cancelled more than once.
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Press play when you first wake up:
• Morning Moment - Setting the Tone of the Day
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Press play before stepping out of the car:
• Between Moments 2-minute Reset
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💜 After their baby shower...
Today asked a lot of you. You showed up and did something that was hard for you. That's worth acknowledging.
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Press play in the car:
• When You Want to Acknowledge Yourself
• When You're Carrying More Than Most People Realise
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You're exhausted.
But as soon as your head hits the pillow...
your mind starts again.
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Press play at bedtime:
• When You Want to Acknowledge Yourself
• Before Bedtime - Letting Go of the Day
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A look inside...
See the collection, and hear a little of what it actually sounds like.
A calm voice. A few minutes. Nothing to remember afterwards.
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Just a little space to meet yourself in the moment you're in.
Not another thing to do
​If you're trying to conceive and it's taking longer than you expected, you've probably already spent enough time:
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tracking,
testing,
researching,
planning,
waiting,
hoping,
questioning,
trying again.
There's always another thing you could be doing.
Another article.
Another supplement.
Another appointment.
Another opinion.
Another thing to optimise.
Need a Moment isn't another one of those things.
It's not another fertility protocol.
It's not a fertility treatment.
It's not a productivity system for getting through TTC.
And it's not about becoming better at handling your emotions.
It's simply something for you.
Because while you're trying to conceive, you're still living a whole life.
Maybe that means...
You're going to work.
Seeing friends.
Having dinner.
Making plans.
Laughing.
Getting annoyed about completely unrelated things.
Celebrating birthdays.
Going to weddings.
Watching TV.
Making coffee.
Having ordinary Tuesdays.
You're still you.
Need a Moment gives you somewhere to pause inside all of that, and come back to yourself.
Not to escape your life.
To be in it.
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I know how hard this season can be, living two lives, and I want you to feel less alone in it.
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Your 30 days of support
​For the next 30 days you'll receive:
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✓ Immediate access to every Need a Moment companion from day one.
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✓ Private listening through your favourite podcast app.
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✓ A guided 30-day email experience helping you discover companions that fit the moments you may be experiencing during TTC
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✓ Your Trying to Conceive Support by Moment Guide — a simple place to find the companions that may help with waiting, appointments, pregnancy announcements, difficult nights, hard feelings and more
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✓ The freedom to listen however works for you—there's no schedule to keep up with.
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✓ A $24 Pathway Credit towards Annual Membership if you'd like to continue afterwards.​​
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Everything is available from day one.
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You don't have to listen every day.
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You don't have to complete anything.
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It's simply there when you need it.
Start with the moment you're in
30-Day Need a Moment Pathway
Full access to all 15 audio companions for 30 days, plus a guided email experience and Support by Moment Guides to help you find the moments that fit your life.
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$24 AUD
(Approx $17 USD)
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If it's really not for you, just let me know — I'd rather that than you carrying something that isn't helping.
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You might be wondering...
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"What if I don't use it every day?"
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You don't have to.
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Some women listen regularly.
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Others only press play when a particular moment arrives.
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There isn't a right way to use Need a Moment. It's support there for the moment you need it.
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"What if I already know what helps me?"
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That's okay too.
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Need a Moment isn't here to give you another list of things you should be doing.
We're often not short on information. We're short on something that's actually there in the moment we need it.
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Need a Moment is here to make support easier to access when your own head feels too full to reach for it.
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"What if I'm having a really hard time?"
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Need a Moment isn't therapy and it isn't a replacement for professional support.
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It acts as an interruption to autopilot. It's a small moment of guided support to help you meet yourself where you are.
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Sometimes that's exactly what you need alongside the other support you're receiving.
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Even one moment can matter
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One moment after an appointment that would normally follow you through the rest of the day.
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One moment to steady yourself before walking into a family occasion you've been dreading.
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One moment when you're feeling the weight of loneliness, even with people around who love and care about you.
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One moment at 2am when your mind won't stop racing.
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You haven't changed the circumstances.
You've simply changed how you're meeting yourself inside them.
Sometimes that's enough to change...
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how you speak to yourself.
how you respond to your partner.
how tonight feels.
how tomorrow begins.
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You can't control every moment of this journey.
But you can choose how supported you feel in it.
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Overwhelm builds quietly.
Support can build quietly too.
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Why I created this
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Hi, I'm Krystal.
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For years, I lived in the space between wanting a baby and not knowing if it would happen.
There were years of appointments.
Waiting. Hope. Heartbreak.
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Looking back, one of the things I wish I'd done differently was support myself sooner. Need a Moment is what I desperately wish I had back then.
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I underestimated how much those moments would affect me—and how much I needed support through them.
Because the emotional weight didn't disappear when one difficult season ended.
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It followed me into the next – a surprise high-risk pregnancy.
And the next – the major transition into new motherhood.
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With each new season adding more moments to what I was already carrying.
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I'd studied so much about emotional wellbeing — I even completed a counselling diploma, though I never went on to practice, and all the things I knew could help felt like one more thing I couldn't keep up with.
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I realised I didn't need more strategies.
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I needed support that was easier to access than my overwhelm.
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So I created one short audio.
Just to help me through one difficult moment.
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The difference I felt after just a few minutes surprised me.
I felt steadier.
More connected.
A little more like me again.
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Like I could choose my next step instead of simply reacting to the last one.
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I found there was something very different about hearing the words spoken to me instead of trying to find them myself while my mind was racing.
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Over time I created more companions.
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Every time I pressed play, I was reminding myself that I mattered too
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And something began quietly shifting.
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I noticed moments more.
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I noticed my feelings more.
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I was moving through my days more intentionally.
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Ordinary moments felt lighter. I felt lighter.
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Even my inner voice began to change.
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The same gentle reminders I'd been listening to started showing up and getting through when I needed them most—even when the audio wasn't playing.
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That's when I realised these few minutes were doing far more than helping me through difficult moments.
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They were quietly changing how I moved through my days.
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That's what I hope these moments become for you too.
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A place to return to whenever this season asks a little more of you.
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When you need a moment
When another appointment ends...
another test isn't what you hoped...
another announcement appears...
another night feels longer than usual...
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when you think, "I need a moment" — you don't have to work out what to do next.
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You already know: you can just press play.
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​I know how heavy it can feel to be carrying a lot. But often nothing changes until you decide it does.
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I've tried to make this as easy as possible — not just to get started, but to actually support yourself in the middle of real life.
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