When we go through something - and childless grief is a big something - we learn about ourselves in ways we might not otherwise. Join us to learn more about the gifts this challenging journey can bring.  

A 4-month CNBC Community with workshops for women grieving being permanently CNBC

Jody Day, founder of Gateway Women invites you to join the #NomoCrones (nomo=not-mother + crone is not an insult!) around the Zoom Fire for her March 2024 Equinox Session.

In this free talk Cristina Archetti will share some of the most important aspects she learned through a long and winding journey

Join Sarah Jane Smith in a welcoming, sacred space for a 90-minute online grief vigil. Bring your sorrows and spend some focused time with fellow grievers tending your grief. All forms of loss are welcome at this vigil. Many life experiences result in grief; all deserve to be tended to.

How do you discover and identify your story when the traditional one no longer applies? Learn how this difficult issue of identifying a new story for your life has been negotiated in a world still very challenging for women.

I’m Sandra and my grief group, the Healing Horseshoe, opens for new members in January: a 4 (to 12) month CNBC Community with workshops for women grieving being permanently CNBC

Fireside Wisdom with Childless Elderwomen is a series of quarterly webinars I (Jody Day of Gateway Women) host with an inspiring panel of childless elderwomen ranging from their late 50s to their mid-70s (I am fifty-nine-and-a-half!)

A 4-day, virtual gathering to support you in navigating your unexpectedly childless life. Learn how to process grief, embrace joy, and find a community that gets it.

Being childless, not by choice, is an isolating and complicated existence. One that has you questioning who you are, where you belong, and your purpose in life.

Safe spaces are important and this workshop is specifically for childless not by choice, childless by circumstance. It is important to feel comfortable as you move inward into those parts which have been hidden for so long.

The Magic of Joy course is a hidden gem. A gem that is polished and beautiful. I’ve followed many courses in personal development, but this one is different.

Ceremonies have been an integral part of human society for many millennia. They are a sacred way to help us let go, to help us call in and be present with the most important aspects of ourselves and our worlds.

Being childless we can find ourselves focused on the end of something, be it our fertility window or finding Mr or Mrs Right. So when we take that emotionally charged step of crossing the mental line of hoping to become a parent to knowing our dreams have gone we can feel stuck in a void.

Please come and join Rianna Hijlkema, Helen Gallagher and Karin Enfield-de Vries, for a one-hour long live Webinar in which we talk about how we moved forwards (and sometimes fell backwards) in our childless journey.

In this online discussion, five involuntarily childless researchers explore what it means to do research with and about the childless-not-by-choice community. 

The journey through childlessness evokes a multitude of emotions, and often these can arise when we’re not prepared in the moment to deal with them. Sherrie Laryse’s guided meditation combines traditional yogic meditation practices with modern psychology and western neuroscience.

How The Connection Between Childlessness And These Transformative Times Ushers In A New Age For Women Despite the grief that comes with childlessness, women are being set free to come into their power in a way impossible in the past.

Living without kids still carries taboo, stigma and negative stereotypes. These societal beliefs are often ingrained in us, from messaging we hear both as children and as we navigate our own experience of being childless.

Acceptance is an often misunderstood concept as it relates to grief and childlessness. Practicing acceptance doesn't mean that you feel good about being childless.

Speaking up and living our childless lives, in the face of pronatalist assumptions and cultural stereotypes, can be empowering and strengthen our sense of self. Yet, it can take courage to speak up, or live full, when judgment and hurt may make us want to withdraw.

The NomoCrones will be gathering for a 'Fireside Wisdom with Childless Elderwomen' session for World Childless Week. We are going to explore whether that perceived 'luck' holds true for those of us ageing without children too.

Why do people jump to conclusions and assume we didn’t want kids, or that despite our dreams of parenthood we’re happily living it up every day, without a single care in the world?

From fairy tales through to modern fiction, childless women are often portrayed as damaged, deranged and deviant. Whether it's Snow White's evil stepmother, the psychopathic puppy-killer Cruela de Vil, Glenn Close's bunny boiler in 'Fatal Attraction' or the unreliable and half-cut narrator of 'Girl on a Train', we never seem to come out well! 

If mentioned at all, childless people can be portrayed in the media as pitiable, grief-stricken loners or heroes living independent and inspired lives liberated from the shackles of parenthood. This can diminish or lionize us, and often doesn’t reflect the complexity of our lived experiences.

When we think about the cathartic power of writing we often associate that with authors sharing their stories, but how else can we use words?

Three writers sit down together over coffee to talk trauma, tactlessness and the therapeutic power of writing to the person who hurt us the most. To send or not to send that is the question!