All our childless stories are precious and multi-layered. Mine includes bad timing, poor decisions, gentle recovery, a decade trying to conceive, many losses and finally realizing the life I thought I was living wasn’t the one I was in.  My life and dreams were out of sync.

In 2015, I gathered up my broken heart, my counselling and community work experience, and post-grad social work studies, to found The Empty Cradle, a service for women transitioning to permanent involuntary childlessness.  As a lived experience advocate, I offer community education, training for fertility and mental health professionals, social policy activism and publicly wonder about non-parenting lives.

When Steph asked me to be a WCW Ambassador, I burst into tears. The invite felt like a wise elder saying, “You matter, your story matters and your work matters”. From deep in my heart, as a fellow childless traveller, please know the same. You matter. Your story matters. Your work matters. Your life matters.

If you’re here because your heart carries the broken ache of no children, and you’re looking for connection and inspiration about life - you’re in good hands and you are no longer alone.

It is the deepest honour to be an Ambassador for the Asia/Pacific (Australia) Region. My hope is to work with local communities to implement the World Childless Week vision.  If you’d like to get active in organising or participating in local Asia/Pacific WCW activities, please get in touch, we’d love to hear from you.

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