Have you found one thing to commit to each day that makes you smile? Have you been in a situation and suddenly realised you stayed and laughted rather than ran and cried? Can you accept an invite you previously tore up, or do you just feel a difference in your heart and outlook. Moving forward doesn’t have to be a big plan B, it could be a small step, hop, skip or jump.
How have you Moved Forwards?
Sherrie Laryse’s guided meditation combines traditional yogic meditation practices with modern psychology and western neuroscience. The resulting meditation practice has been proven to assist people to meet, cope with, and process their heavy emotions. As such, it has been used largely for Post Traumatic Stress. Suitable for both experienced meditators and those who have never even thought about meditating before!
In this online discussion Cristina Archetti, Laura Curtis, Nisa Darroux, Robin Hadley, and Sarah Roberts explore what it means to do research with and about the childless-not-by-choice community. We base our conversation around the following two questions: 1. What is the value of research on involuntary childlessness conducted by researchers who are involuntarily childless? 2. What insights do we, as childless researchers, bring to the table, and how do those insights help us, as a community and as individual researchers, move forward?
Join Rianna Hijlkema and Helen Gallagher, for a one-hour long live Webinar in which they talk about how they moved forwards (and sometimes fell backwards) in their childless journey. Two women, two different stories, two different countries and one common fact; they are both childless not by choice. From hiking trails, to podcasts, from community building to therapy sessions, from depression to happiness, they've seen it all and it's brought them to where they are today.
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 step of crossing the line of hoping to become a parent to knowing our dreams have gone we can feel stuck in a void. Then we hear people talk about their Plan B, and the suggestion that something bigger and better is what await us in our future. But what if plan B never seems to appear or we work our way desperately through the alphabet and find ourselves waving goodbye to Plan Z? Join Stephanie Joy Phillips, Sheri Johnson, Lana Manikowski, Carrie Brauninger and Becky as we discuss what happens when there isn’t a Plan B (or z)
I pulled down my knickers and no longer found her there waiting for me. She was late, very very late.