If you're greiving the children that live only in your heart whilst dealing with the thoughtless comments of others who couldn't get over a wardrobe malfunction yet feel that YOU should be "over" your childlessness "by now". I see you. #ChildlessChristmas
Thank you for this Katherine Baldwin... I particularly like the idea of REST. It has been an exhausting year for so many of us, in so many different ways... http://bit.ly/2ELrpR4 #ReclaimXmas #ChildlessChristmas
"Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country" by Pam Houston (2019). One of Gateway Women's 12 Books of Christmas. Read more reviews and find out about the other 11 here: http://bit.ly/38ojBlY
#ChildlessChristmas #ReclaimXmas
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
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
Gateway Women is running a live, womanned chatroom in our private, safe, ID-checked, confidential online community from 6am-midnight GMT on Christmas Day, 25th December. http://bit.ly/2YEceT0 #ChildlessChristmas #Grief #HolidayTriggers #Pronatalism #CNBC
The Christmas episode of the Full Stop Podcast - listen now & then again when/if you feel alone over the hols, it's that good. I'm at 22:25 and I got quite emotional (even after all these years, the holidays still have their triggers!) http://bit.ly/2EaoZLI #ChildlessChristmas
The holiday season can be hard when you're involuntarily childless (and for many, many other reasons. #SelfCompassion can help. Here's a recording of my webinar on self compasion from this year's World Childless Week. http://bit.ly/2RIjEDl
#ChildlessChristmas #ReclaimXmas
Sarah Chamberlain's brilliant Christmas "make-under" - do click through the read the blog in full, it's a cracker (and not of the Christmas kind!) http://bit.ly/2EzSQP1 #ChildlessChristmas
On Wednesday 19th December, 7pm GMT (UK time), Berenice Smith from @Walkinourshoes1 and @ChildlessHour will be doing a Facebook Live about creating new traditions and memories at Christmas http://bit.ly/2EC0Tvk #ChildlessChristmas #ReclaimChristmas #WCW
Reflections on my 9th Childless Christmas - and 3 Gifts for you including an invitation to my free post-Christmas 'Reflect & Renew' webinar on 29th December http://bit.ly/2Epzr3e #ChildlessChristmas #LifeAfterChildlessness #FindYourTribe
"As I thought about Christmas through the eyes of the childless, it dawned on me that Mr. & Mrs. Claus are an amazing example of a childless couple" @notsomommy http://bit.ly/2LhZXgm #ChildlessChristmas #ReclaimChristmas
"5 Things To Do When the Holidays Aren't Exactly Uplifting" if you're childless and looking to connect with other online or in-person, please join our private online community or attend one of our 100+ free meetups around the world! http://bit.ly/2Cb44rE #ChildlessChristmas
"I have been watching other people’s kids unwrap gifts all my life"... & @suelick has had enough of it! http://bit.ly/2GfeU3Q #ChildlessByRelationship #ChildlessByCircumstance #ChildlessChristmas
From Loribeth at 'The Road Less Travelled', after 20 years of #ChildlessChristmas:
"I guess if I had one piece of advice to offer, it would be to do whatever you feel inclined to do -- no more, no less.
Read more of this beautiful blog: http://bit.ly/2BXlTdF
Thank you @lifewithoutbaby for your thoughts on how to understand, manage and reset our ideas and plans around Christmas http://bit.ly/2GayOgf #ChildlessChristmas #ReclaimChristmas
We read a lot of what NOT to do - here's what you can do to make it easier for your friend, sister, daughter, cousin, neighbour, colleague... Thanks to @Walkinourshoes1 for these excellent tips. http://bit.ly/2rqRrCo #ReclaimChristmas #ChildlessChristmas
Resources and reflections on coping with a #ChildlessChristmas from the wise and generous @LesleyPyneCoach http://bit.ly/2G5zGTj #ReclaimChristmas
Thank you @mjhughes67 for this blog on being a #childless bloke at Christmas: "This Christmas and every Christmas I sense the ghost of our son Michael. And every year I wish I could tell him this..." http://bit.ly/2FP6bVQ #ChildlessMen #ChildlessChristmas
"Holidays are Complicated. And grief is exhausting".
If you're struggling this #ChildlessChristmas due to infertility, miscarriage, baby-loss or child-loss, check out the free "Support for the Holidays" online course/community by "Mothering Your Heart"
http://bit.ly/2rg98o6
The truth about being childless, but not by choice, at Christmas. by Sarah Roberts of @Theemptycradle for @Mamamia http://bit.ly/2FXoecn #ChildlessChristmas #Grief #DisenfranchisedGrief
From the archives - a guest blog from a Gateway Women on the #ReclaimChristmas theme: "I listen to it all as his little boy voice dances like jingling bells on the other end of the phone, and I wonder, ‘Where did it all go?’ http://bit.ly/2rab1To #ChildlessChristmas
My tips for what you might do differently this year to handle those awkward conversations about your childlessness? http://bit.ly/2FKolrB #ChildlessChristmas #Childless
My tips on how to prepare yourself for attending family celebrations as ‘the childless one’. It’s such an incredibly public display of our difference... http://bit.ly/2FPjLbX #ChildlessChristmas #Childless #ReclaimChristmas
If you're dreading your #ChildlessChristmas @LifeWithoutBaby has a great, short, helpful read you can download on Kindle right now! I highly recommend it. Thanks Lisa & Kathleen #ReclaimChristmas
http://bit.ly/2BHleNr
#ChildlessChristmas: "If you’re struggling to have a family, or in our case, past that point, what happens to family traditions when there’s no family to carry them on?" Eric from SlowSwimmers&FriedEggs talks turkey http://bit.ly/2EUi6RI #ChildlessMen
Childless not by choice and grieving at Christmas? I've been there (and I survived) and here are my tips to help you get through it too. (And alcohol is probably NOT the answer...) http://bit.ly/2QdSfFx #ChildlessChristmas #Grief
Start NOW if you want to do things differently this year for the holiday season! @fertilitypoddy interviews myself @gatewaywomen and Kelly da Silva @thedovecoteorg for our tips http://bit.ly/2qkTlnM #childlesschristmas #grief
