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Are you #childlessnotbychoice or #childlessbycircumstance and in need of support in finding joy, purpose, meaning again? Could you use some help in empowering yourself and do the grief work that is needed to get there? I’ve been where you are and can help you through this.
Big hugs, Karin
“Many people think that the room called childlessness has just two doors: ‘didn’t want’ or ‘couldn’t have’,” says Jody Day. “But it’s way more complex than that.”
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On this beautiful, mild Irish October evening, my candle burns for the children that live only in my heart, and yours too. With love, Jody x
#BLAW #WaveOfLight #ChildlessByCircumstance #ChildlessNotByChoice
The Guardian is doing a piece on how 'financial precarity may be leading to involuntary childlessness' for millennials. I'm being inteviewed and if this is your story, contact @AmmarKalia2 to be part of it. #ChildlessByCircumstance #SystemicChildlessness
Today is 'Our Stories' Day for #WorldChildlessWeek: This is Jemma's story of chronic pain linked to the unresolved grief of childlessness, something I have personal experience of too. https://bit.ly/3A7WEkr #ChildlessByCircumstance
This is my regular and still unanswered question: can anyone point me to a menopause specialist who is childless herself? #menopause #CNBC #ChildlessByCircumstance #ChildlessMenopause
So honoured to start the year as the guest on @shanisilver 'Single Serving' podcast where we talk about the experience of being both single & childless when neither of those was the plan. https://bit.ly/2Xbr4Aw #SingleAndChildless #SocialInfertility #ChildlessByCircumstance
<< STARTS TOMORROW >> Free tickets still available. Childless Collective Summit runs March 18-21 and I'm incredibly proud to be the keynote speaker. Get your free ticket & learn more here: https://bit.ly/3pXrCFR #Childless #LifeAfterInfertility #CNBC #ChildlessByCircumstance
[New podcast interview] with Aussie Yvette Le Blowitz's 'Spa It Girl'. Yvette herself is #ChildlessByCircumstance for complex reasons and we cover so much in this chat https://bit.ly/3bpcqh2 #Childless #CNBC #IWD #ChildlessInAustralia #GatewayWomenAustralia
Registration is officially open for the first ever virtual Childless Collective Summit, March 18-21 and I'm incredibly proud to be the keynote speaker. Get your free ticket & learn more here: https://bit.ly/3pTtWxy #Childless #LifeAfterInfertility #CNBC #ChildlessByCircumstance
So honoured to start the year as the guest on @shanisilver 'Single Serving' podcast where we talk about the experience of being both single & childless when neither of those was the plan. https://bit.ly/3nhyZXj #SingleAndChildless #SocialInfertility #ChildlessByCircumstance
80% of women who reach midlife without children are #ChildlessByCircumstance - it's really time for the mainstream to wake up to the fact that this really isn't news... https://https://t.co/lYY7yly0i7
"If I had found someone to have kids with, I would have. However, I didn’t find that person so the choice was not to have children with the wrong person. Being childless was not the choice; not being with the wrong man was."
#ChildlessByCircumstance
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Pleased and proud to share with you my interview which came out today with @TheAgeBuster, a prominent anti-ageism blog.
https://bit.ly/3lPxK1Q
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#ChildlessNotByChoice
#ChildlessbyCircumstance
#anti-ageism
#pronatalism
#sexism
#ChildlessElderwomen
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@AWOCUK
Member Testimonial: "It feels to me like coming home, a safe space where I am welcomed and held however I'm feeling." Come and find out why there's no other childless community anything like it.
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#Childless #Infertility #ChildlessByCircumstance
Watch this 10min film @MypointTv re #ChildlessByCircumstance, made by British journalist and #WorldChildlessWeek champion @BibiLynch. Also interviews me about #pronatalism, and what's driving the stigma against childless women. https://bit.ly/35Dh8F7 @childlessweek
I've been reading (and writing!) blogs about childlessness for a decade now. Here is a list of my current favourties, in alphabetical order - let me know if YOUR favourite ins't on this list! https://bit.ly/3gSBRXK #Childless #ChildlessByCircumstance #Infertility
Member Testimonial:
"Through the Gateway Women online community I found comfort, I found joy, I found my voice and I found a place where I could tell my story without apology."
https://bit.ly/2UhGiCU #Childless #CNBC #ChildlessByCircumstance #Infertility #LifeAfterChildlessness
Circe by Madeline Miller (2019) One of Gateway Women's 12 Books of Christmas. Read more reviews and find out about the other 11 here: http://bit.ly/2Px0TzR
#CNBC #ChildlessNotByChoice
#ChildlessByCircumstance #Infertilty #SocialInfertility
#ChildlessChristmas #ReclaimXmas
Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home (2017) by Toko-pa Turner. One of Gateway Women's 12 Books of Christmas. Read more reviews and find out about the other 11 here: http://bit.ly/2YAwK75
#CNBC #ChildlessNotByChoice
#ChildlessByCircumstance
#ChildlessChristmas #ReclaimXmas
Mum’s Not the Word: Childless/Childfree by @denisefelkin (2019). One of Gateway Women's 12 Books of Christmas. Read more reviews and find out about the other 11 here: http://bit.ly/2P6UOer
#CNBC #ChildlessNotByChoice
#ChildlessByCircumstance
#ChildlessChristmas #ReclaimXmas
How to Fail: Everything I’ve Ever Learned from Things Going Wrong by Elizabeth Day (2019). One of Gateway Women's 12 Books of Christmas. Read more reviews and find out about the other 11 here: http://bit.ly/2YAxMzZ
#ChildlessNotByChoice
#ChildlessByCircumstance
Motherhood by Sheila Heti (2018) One of Gateway Women's 12 Books of Christmas. Read more reviews and find out about the other 11 here: http://bit.ly/35a0Xfv
#CNBC #ChildlessNotByChoice #Ambivalence
#ChildlessByCircumstance #Infertilty #SocialInfertility
#ChildlessChristmas
This Particular Happiness: A Childless Love Story by Jackie Shannon Hollis (2019). One of Gateway Women's 12 Books of Christmas. Read more reviews and find out about the other 11 here: http://bit.ly/38rpbDU
#CNBC #ChildlessNotByChoice
#ChildlessByCircumstance #Infertilty
Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver (2016). One of Gateway Women's 12 Books of Christmas. Read more reviews and find out about the other 11 here: http://bit.ly/2P8pDj9
#CNBC #ChildlessNotByChoice
#ChildlessByCircumstance #Infertilty #SocialInfertility
100+ free in-person Gateway Women meetups for childless-not-by-choice women: UK, Ireland, Europe, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand & Israel. http://bit.ly/2Y9k616 #FindYourTribe #CNBC #Infertility #ChildlessByCircumstance
I'm keynoting at this day of events @StoryhouseLive to explore living as a non-parent in a family-centric world. Chester (NW England), Sunday 10th Nov. Come and find your tribe! Tickets only £15 http://bit.ly/2mjcPKE #childless #CNBC #ChildlessByCircumstance #SocialInfertilty
10 things all therapists need to know about their involuntarily childless clients by @counselling_mw http://bit.ly/30pdCbr
#ChildlessNotByChoice #infertility #SocialInfertility #ChildlessByCircumstance #Grief #Pronatalism #DisenfranchisedGrief #Psychotherapy