What big steps or subtle differences have you noticed over the last year? Have you gone to a child heavy event and enjoyed yourself, or been prepared and confident to leave when it became too much? Have you spoken openly about being childless, made a small comment on a social media post that inferred negatively towards the childless, or approached a manager in work about inclusivity? Have you rediscovered old interests or just started to just feel better when you wake each day enlightened that you can now make new dreams?
We still may sway sideways and backwards at times, but see those steps as part of your dance moving slowly and steadily forwards.
Sometimes, it is only by picking up our pens that we can become the authors of our own stories again. In this session, Eva will teach the basics of confessional writing. What is it? How can it help us to cope with being childless not by choice? Whether in personal essays, poetry or autobiographical fiction, you will leave with the tools you need to write yourself remedied.
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A panel discussion with Meriel, Karin and Catherine-Emmanuelle, who will talk about their own journey of healing and invite questions and comments from the audience. We would also like to talk about what helps and hinders in the counselling room.
We can talk about our friends, our colleagues, hairdressers, the workplace…
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Join us for a transformative webinar during World Childless Week, where we explore the unique role of the childless step-mother within modern family structures. Drawing from real-life experiences and expert insights and data that demonstrates the changing family structures in our society and unhelpful pressures of existing dynamics and the growing need for a re-thinking of how we raise and care for children in society.
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Taking a leap into the future as CNBC women: Without a well-defined and socially sanctioned path to follow, how do we move past what we don’t have and find the courage to take the plunge into an expansive and meaningful life? This webinar interviews women who have done just that and who share their experience, strength and hope as CNBC women.
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Life or rather childlessness threw us a curveball and we ended up walking into a fog of confusion, full of questions. As we start to find the answers or learn to accept there is no clear answer, the fog starts to clear. We then realise we are not the person we thought we would be, not the person who had dreams of being a parent. We may wonder “who am I now?”
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In her article about being single and childless, Wilkinson (2019) discusses two types of people who fall outside of the cultural norm of “reproductive futurism”, both of whom she describes as being “queer”, that is, out of place or out of synch with these norms.