childless Featured Creating a Business Community for the Childless and Childfree Why do people still ask “Do you have kids?” when they meet someone new? Don’t they know it has the power to hurt those of us for whom the answer is, “No”? The truth is, no, they don’t. Unless you’ve been through the pain of involuntary childlessness
Limited or Limitless? Where’s the line? Can we break through barriers with nothing but a positive mindset? “It’s almost impossible to be honest and boring at the same time” - Julia Cameron, The Right to Write My word of the month for March was going to be HONESTY, but another word kept popping into my
Am I Childless, Childfree or a Proxy-Parent (and why does it even matter)? Before I found the childless community in 2021, a couple of years after making the decision to stop trying to have a baby, I didn’t know there were words for women like me. I didn’t know that my grief was disenfranchised. A grief not recognised by wider society
Finding Belonging in the Social Media Age As a 40 year old superfan of the pop band Bastille, I often find myself singing along to their haunting lyrics all by myself. What I would give to share this joy with someone. I don’t need to dissect the lyrics, like a 15 year old Nirvana fan, but
News Embracing the Fear of a Flourishing Writing Life It was my first (adult) failure as a writer. I started Beth Kempton’s free Winter Writing Sanctuary course and quit after the first day. But it was a failure that would change the trajectory of my writing life. Winter 2022: My dad had died the year before and I
