Living a life without children by choice can come with unique challenges, emotions, and reflections.

Join Embracing Us, by Childless.Life: Cautiously Exploring Meaningful Lives as Childless Women. Are you a woman who is permanently childless, not by choice or by circumstances?

THERE IS LIFE AFTER CHILDLESSNESS, DESPITE WHAT THE MEDIA, YOUR FRIENDS, YOUR FAMILY AND YOUR INNER CRITIC WOULD HAVE YOU BELIEVE! A MEANINGFUL AND FULFILLING LIFE THAT MAKES SENSE TO YOU.

Exploring the lived experience of childlessness through the lenses of Internal Family Systems (IFS) & Christian Spirituality.

A beautiful 25mm enamel badge, with a hidden message of support to lie close to your heart, and a backing card you can keep in your phone case or purse to remind you World Childless Week is here for you through the year.

FOUNDERS BLOG by Stephanie Joy Phillips

The end of one year and beginning of the next can raise the questions of what just passed and what will I face going forwards. People mention achievements, resolutions, plans and dreams. It can be another date on the calendar where we see ourselves omitted from the conversation or feel the heartache of another year without being a parent.

AMBASSADOR BLOG by Jessica Hepburn

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? These words by Mary Oliver, from her poem The Summer Day, have surely called to many a childless woman — and man. What is it you plan to do with the life without the children you dreamed of?

AMBASSADOR BLOG by Katy Seppi

This month marks eight years since my hysterectomy - the moment I knew motherhood wasn’t in the cards for me.

AMBASSADOR BLOG by Anne Altamore

“I must stop this Christmas from coming….but how?” –a classic line from the movie How the Grinch stole Christmas and for a long time, the perfect articulation of my relationship with the festive season.

Participation in this study is invited from childless/childfree trainees on BACP/UKCP accredited courses at any stage of study, or recently qualified BACP/UKCP accredited therapists who have qualified within the last 5 years.

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Ensure that the childless have the same IHT allowances as those who have children, and benefit from both the 'Residence Nil Rate Band' of £175,000 and the Nil Rate Band of £325,000.