Acceptance is an awkward word because we don’t want to accept we will not be a parent or that our life is not how we dreamt. Perhaps we can twist it to mean accepting our emotions may continue to be triggered but on less occassions with less intensity. Accepting our heart will have always have a space where our children live but don’t exist.
In this webinar we will talk about how being childless is part of who we are, but not the whole of us. Our childlessness is something to live with but to not be ruled by.
DATE: Sunday 18th September
TIME: 7.00pmBST Find your time zone here
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Please note: This webinar will be recorded and available to view on the website, if you are unable to attend it live. You do not need to register to watch the replay.
Stephanie Joy Phillips
England
Stephanie Joy Phillips is passionate about raising awareness for the childless not by choice. After realising there was no national recognition of the community she started World Childless Week in 2017.
Stephanie also runs three childless Facebook groups: Childless Path To Acceptance focuses on support, Childless Chit Chat is a trigger free zone and Childless Perks!! is all about laughter and finding the positives of being childless without a parent saying 'I told you so'.
Steph lives in Worcestershire, UK, with her husband and two rescue cats, Storm and Tea-Cup.
Victoria Firth
England
Victoria Firth is a performer, writer and theatre director from Yorkshire. She is childless due to social infertility with particular relevance to her identity as a gay woman. She explored the topic in her fun and feminist one woman show 'How to be amazingly happy!' which has toured nationally since 2018.
She also writes a blog and runs workshops on self care for creative people.
Kat Brown
England
Kat Brown is a freelance journalist and commentator who covers talking points in arts and current affairs for the national press.
Her forthcoming debut, No One Talks About This Stuff, a 'support group in a book', collects stories of infertility, choice, and not having children, to inspire and comfort people going through similar experiences so they feel less alone.
Lana Walker
England
Lana Walker's childless journey was extremely unexpected. She spent her 30s trying to conceive, her 40s grieving, and wanted to find a way of living with childlessness for her 50s and beyond.
Her personal discoveries of letting go of the grief and heavy burden of not being a mother led her to retrain as an Emotional Freedom Techniques practitioner (EFT aka tapping) and holistic massage therapist. She now uses the incredibly life-changing technique to enable others to let go of the grief, guilt and reaction to triggers that have hurt their quality of life. Lana feels worthy and content without children, and is delighted to be able to help others feel the same.
Lucy North
England
Lucy North is an illustrator who has designed for well known UK brands including Marks and Spencer and John Lewis.
Under the name Pretty Much Studio she has created some of the resources she wished had been available when she needed them. She has recently started an interview project shining a light on childless women called The Twenty Percenters.