A Guided Workbook
The holidays can be hard when you're childless not by choice, especially when your own life looks different than you had planned. It can be difficult to see so much focus on family and children when you're navigating a different path.
I created Coping With the Holidays When You're Childless Not by Choice to help you navigate your feelings, explore ways to make the holidays feel good to you, identify traditions that matter to you, and build a holiday season that works for your life.
The holidays may look different than you once imagined, and you can find ways to make them meaningful, create new traditions, and have moments you genuinely look forward to.
You can find the workbook on Amazon to learn more.
What’s Inside:
Reflective journaling prompts to help you acknowledge your emotions and define how you want to spend the season
Coping strategies for navigating social events, family dynamics, and holiday-related triggers
Holiday planning for YOU, featuring creative and empowering ways to reclaim the season
Practical tips for handling invitations, gatherings, and conversations with clarity and care
Whether your path has included infertility, circumstance, or loss, this workbook offers a safe, compassionate, and validating space to approach the holidays on your own terms—free from pressure, shame, or silence.
Let this be your companion through a season that often overlooks those living without children—but still deserving of love, joy, and peace.
Carrie Brauninger
Carrie is single and childless not by choice. She is a Social Worker by profession and dog mom by choice.
Carrie’s mission is to work with women to help them design a life that shows that even childless, you can have a life that is meaningful, purposeful, and fun.
Carrie is the cofounder of Sonder Sisterhood and has written several books to support the childless across the year alongside Coping with the Holidays When You're Childless Not by Choice
