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Healing Through Clay Creations

September 17, 2025 Stephanie Joy Phillips

I’ve long been drawn to ceramics and pottery from Spain and other places, both for its artistic beauty and functional reasons.

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In Childlessness and The Art Tags childless by circumstance, childless creativity, mindfulness as griefwork
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Childlessness - a creative epidemic

September 17, 2025 Stephanie Joy Phillips

When I started writing my first book – The Pursuit of Motherhood – I thought it was just me and Frida Kahlo who had made art out of our infertility.

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In Childlessness and The Art Tags childless arts, there's more to life than children, ivf and miscarriage
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Motherhood walking away

September 17, 2025 Stephanie Joy Phillips

Motherhood walking away from me
The grief of an identity leaving me behind to find new meaning in life...

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In Childlessness and The Art Tags childless art, childless not by choice, motherhood dream
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Creativity and the arts: A thread that binds

September 17, 2025 Stephanie Joy Phillips

I grew up with the privilege of a most marvellous Mum. She was a wonderful woman, an artist, and in my lifetime an art teacher.

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In Childlessness and The Art Tags art therapy, childless by circumstance, childless creativity
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Grief Hit the Big and the Small

September 17, 2025 Stephanie Joy Phillips

Wishing my child would be born

Is very similar to wishing a deceased loved one would reanimate or return from the dead.

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In Childlessness and The Art Tags disenfranchised grief, childless not by choice, childless love
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My word for 2025

September 17, 2025 Stephanie Joy Phillips

I created this mandala at the beginning of the year, my word for 2025, before joining a childless group and meeting so many lovely ladies.

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In Childlessness and The Art Tags empowered childless, childless community
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Dog's Guide to my Emotional Support Human

September 17, 2025 Stephanie Joy Phillips

My silent film shows an autobiographical interactive concertina I created  to spread awareness of childlessness and how pets play crutial role in grievieng, processing and surviving our existence without a child through my own authentic experience.

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In Childlessness and The Art Tags childless creativity, childless not by choice, animal therapy
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Art, Kintsugi and Me

September 17, 2025 Stephanie Joy Phillips

There is no quick fix for this grief and this pain. It is relentless some days. But I am trying to heal, rebuild myself and move forward as many of you reading this will be too.

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In Childlessness and The Art Tags kintsugi and childlessness, healing thnrough art, childless not by choice
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Writing found me...

September 17, 2025 Stephanie Joy Phillips

It took me

to be on my knees,

to pick up the pen.

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In Childlessness and The Art Tags childless writer, childless by circumstance, childless creativity
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Not By Choice (Childless/Free)

September 17, 2025 Stephanie Joy Phillips

I’m a musician and a psychiatrist, and still, I had always struggled with my childnessness state. Was it a choice, was it circumstances.. I wasn’t sure.

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In Childlessness and The Art Tags childless indecision, childless song, childless music
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