Have you sat in a gynae room surrounded by pregnant women? Have you woke up on a hospital ward surrounded by new mums? Has a fertility clinic ignored you as soon as you ran out of money for more treatment? Has a nurse made a joke that was insensitive, a doctor used terminolgy that hurt?
Has the health system let you down and created MORE HEARTACHE than HEALING?
During your childlessness journey, there may have been a lot of emphasis on the body and health. In this meditation session, we'll be focusing on affirmations or statements to speak to the body. A healing session where you can meditate, or simply come in and listen to the affirmations.
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Chronic illness is underestimated or dismissed because its effects are not always visible. There’s often a complete lack of understanding from both healthcare professionals, family and friends.In this panel we explore the connection to chronic illness, such as endometriosis, adenomyosis, fibroids and pain in relation to navigating life without children.
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A discussion on the issues faced by childless people in healthcare settings. Having to sit in a waiting room of pregnant women after my hysterectomy and when my childless grief was so raw, I have seen healthcare and its attitudes to childlessness from the perspective of the patient as well as being a healthcare professional myself.
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In this session, we’ll explore the unique challenges childless women face in accessing compassionate, comprehensive healthcare - including the heartbreaking decision many make to delay or avoid care altogether. We’ll examine how medical bias, disenfranchised grief, and cultural expectations collide to leave childless women feeling invisible and unheard.
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For some time now, my grief around childlessness has settled into something less like crashing waves and more like a steady sea. Over time, we become experts at scanning the horizon, anticipating where the pain might come from.