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
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
"I Wish Someone Would Ask Me" is a very moving, beautiful & thought-provoking blog about the grief of childlessness due to not finding a partner. #SocialInfertility https://bit.ly/2Z9KDe2
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
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
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
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
A great article from earlier this year by @savvyauntie I share her feelings on this; I'm glad it's not a choice that was around for me at the time as it extends hope in ways that is not always helpful... http://bit.ly/2IatmbY #SocialInfertility #ChildlessByCircumstance
1 PLACE LEFT AUCKLAND! The Gateway Women Reignite Weekend is coming to #NewZealand on 18/19 November. Come heal your heart & find your tribe in the heavenly surroundings of Eden Gardens. http://bit.ly/2Ryuppa #Childless #CNBC #SocialInfertility #Infertility
"The recession meant I never did get the thousands of pounds together to actually go through with the IVF and have my one chance of having a child (despite spending thousands on scans/blood tests/follicle-tracking etc…)" @bibilynch on #SocialInfertility http://bit.ly/2F1fOAr
CALLING AUCKLAND! The Gateway Women Reignite Weekend is coming to #NewZealand on 18/19 November. Come heal your heart & find your tribe in the heavenly surroundings of Eden Gardens. http://bit.ly/2OeDZja Workshop almost full #Childless #CNBC #SocialInfertility #Infertility
A review of "Motherhood Missed: Stories from Women Who Are Childless By Circumstance" by Dr Lois Tonkin @drloistonkin which was published to coincide with 2018's #WorldChildlessWeek with a Foreword by me
http://bit.ly/2MDXziS
#ChildlessByCircumstance #SocialInfertility
#WorldChildlessWeek Read the articles, blogs, interviews and more shared for Day 2 (Tuesday 11th Sep) on the theme of "Letters from Our Heart" http://bit.ly/2COB7ny #Childless #ChildlessNotByChoice #CNBC #ChildlessByCircumstance #Infertility #SocialInfertility #BabyLoss #Grief
The 2nd World Childless Week is coming up this September 10-16th and I'm proud to be a World Childless Week Champiion. Find out more http://bit.ly/2oicLc1 #CNBC #childlessnotbychoice #childless #infertility #childlessbycircumstance #socialinfertility #childlessmen #LGBTQ #WoC
FROM THE ARCHIVES: '50 Ways Not to be a Mother' - frankly, I could extend the list to 100 these days... http://bit.ly/2PcbjUu
#childless #CNBC #ChildlessNotByChoice #Infertility #SocialInfertility #ChildlessByCircumstance #PlanB #FindYourTribe
With more than 90K retweets and almost half a million 'likes' can #ReproductiveHarrassment be about to become visible? It's about time... #childless #CNBC #ChildlessNotByChoice #SocialInfertility #ChildlessByCircumstance #Infertility #Miscarriage #Grief #EarlyTermLoss #BabyLoss...
Watch this short video chat in which Liane and I discuss how ambivalence, meeting her partner late and then a 'dance with cancer' resulted in her being childless not by choice. http://bit.ly/2KcrMV9 #CNBC #Infertility #SocialInfertility #Edinburgh
World Childless Week: 10-17 Sep 2018: Day 1: Facts & Figures - Our Stories
If you would like to share your story about how/why you are childless not by choice (can be anon) please get in touch @ChildlessHour http://bit.ly/2uTMMLm #CNBC #infertility #SocialInfertility #WCW
Read about why I'm so passionate that PENNY: a movie about childlessness needs to be made @thestoryofpenny We have till this Sunday to pledge our support and make it happen - come on Tribe! http://bit.ly/2MIdqNP #childless #infertility #socialinfertility #POF #EarlyMenopause
Good to see that research is being done to disprove the hoary old 'career woman' myth as the reason women freeze their eggs. And some sobering stats about its effectiveness too. @oliviapetter1 https://ind.pn/2MHmxi1
#eggfreezing #socialinfertility #childlessbycircumstance
Childless and lost your mojo? Get your groove back at Gateway Women Reignite Weekend: USA (Portland OR); Canada (Toronto); UK (London, Scotland); EU (Brussels) http://bit.ly/2K4zepe
#CNBC #ChildlessNotByChoice #Infertility #SocialInfertility #FindYourTribe
PODCAST: In this interview with the soulful and insightful @civilla1 we discuss everything from the 'double whammy' of being both single & childless to Beyonce's pregnancy photos on IG
http://bit.ly/2tJfhKD #CNBC #SocialInfertility #ChildlessByCircumstance #WoC #Pronatalism
Portland OR has one of the largest concentration of childless women I know! Come and meet your tribe at its first GW Reignite Weekend this Fall! http://bit.ly/2t7Q8cU #CNBC #ChildlessNotByChoice #Infertility #SocialInfertility #FindYourTribe #Childless
Childless and lost your mojo? Get your groove back at Gateway Women Reignite Weekend: USA (Baton Rouge, Portland OR); Canada (Toronto); UK (London, Scotland); EU (Brussels) http://bit.ly/2ykEalc
#CNBC #ChildlessNotByChoice #Infertility #SocialInfertility #FindYourTribe
Please support "PENNY" @thestoryofpenny - short comedy/drama film about involuntary childlessness. Filming starts mid-July and they need $15K. I've read script and it's the story of so many women born in the 70s. http://bit.ly/2Mjpupw #childless #SocialInfertility Pls RT
Not everyone finds 'the one'. Many people are living their lives in long unchosen singleness (and some chosen too) An excellent, sensitive piece from @EllenMcCarthy https://wapo.st/2GRIKY7 #childless #childfree #socialinfertility #childlessbycircumstance
Lisa Manterfield @LifeWithoutBaby interviews Jody Day about her book, Living the Life Unexpected http://bit.ly/2HyC566
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#Childless #PlanB #LTLU #ChildlessNotByChoice #Infertility #SocialInfertility
VIDEO: My talk on what's going on with our vilification of single & childless women... 2016 Women of the World Festival @WOWtweet London http://bit.ly/2uBQL1q #single #childless #pronatalism #diversity #SocialInfertility #feminism
Research shows that 80% of childless women are childless by circumstance, 10% by infertility & 10% by choice (see free download of Chap1 of my book for refs). Those circumstances vary widely but most common is a lack of a willing partner http://bit.ly/2GxIpti #socialinfertility
EXULANSIS: 'The tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it' (From the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows).
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#childlessness #socialinfertility #infertility #grief #PronatalistPrivilege #pronatalism #gatewaywomen #timetotalk
