Awakening Worth in Childless Women
121 episodes - English - Latest episode: 8 days ago -You are about to discover how to embrace your life as a childless woman who wanted to have a family and never could. This is where we combine mindset shifting tools with practical tips so you can break free of outdated societal norms that condition us all to believe that women without kids don’t measure up to the moms.
This is where we take action on processing grief and accelerating the healing journey so you can feel free. When childless women awaken their self-worth, they transform from hopeless and inadequate to worthy, accepting and purposeful.
Think of this podcast as your weekly dose of lightbulb moments that will shift your perspective as a childless woman - about yourself and your innate power to change yourself, your future and even the world we live in. If that’s what you want, then start listening!
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114: Navigating Loneliness As a Childless Woman
June 30, 2024 22:00 - 21 minutes - 15.1 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! Feeling lonely is one of the most common complaints I hear from childless women so if you're feeling lonely, you are definitely not the only one! I felt lonely too when I first started down the path to permanently childless, especially once my husband seemed to have moved forward without me and didn't seem to understand what I was going through. So I thought it was high time to talk more openly about loneliness and how to dis...
113: Why I Decided Against IVF
June 23, 2024 11:00 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! There was a time when I didn't quite feel like I had found a place within the childless community and the reason was that I had not done IVF. It seemed as though so many of the women there had tried IVF and they had this common language and terms that I wasn't familiar with. Then I realized that there are SO many different paths that all converge on leading a life without children and yet perhaps there were other women out t...
112: How to Get Through Emotions After Speeches Like Harrison Butker's
June 17, 2024 13:00 - 34 minutes - 23.9 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! Harrison Butker's commencement speech at Benedictine College ruffled a LOT of feathers, especially within the childfree community. There were a lot of insults thrown at him, arguments started on social media comment sections, even calls to cancel his NFL contract. Were they justified? In my opinion, it doesn't really matter. What matters is this: how do YOU feel when you hear words like Harrison's and if it's outrage, do yo...
111: Purpose is Not Something You Find (Part 2)
June 11, 2024 13:00 - 32 minutes - 22.2 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! Download your free guide to Finding Purpose Beyond Parenthood: Getting Through Grief and Triggers to a Life of Meaning and Joy! Last week I talked about how purpose is not something you "find". It's also not a singular mission. It's not a destination. And it doesn't have to be big. Once you begin to practice all the things that I outlined that will bring you a sense of meaning and purpose, you may find that you are still ...
111: Purpose is Not Something You Find (Part 1)
June 02, 2024 14:00 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! Download your free guide to Finding Purpose Beyond Parenthood: Getting Through Grief and Triggers to a Life of Meaning and Joy! Purpose is not some concept that you find. It's not a destination. It's not singular. And it doesn't come from having kids. I understand why you believe it does. I did too. It's because society tells us that when you have kids, you'll be flooded with purpose. Especially as women, becoming a moth...
110: Purpose is Not Something You Find (Part 1)
June 02, 2024 14:00 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! Download your free guide to Finding Purpose Beyond Parenthood: Getting Through Grief and Triggers to a Life of Meaning and Joy! Purpose is not some concept that you find. It's not a destination. It's not singular. And it doesn't come from having kids. I understand why you believe it does. I did too. It's because society tells us that when you have kids, you'll be flooded with purpose. Especially as women, becoming a moth...
109: The Unsung Sisterhood of Women Without Kids, With Ruby Warrington
May 26, 2024 23:00 - 1 hour - 45.9 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! It is so clear to me that Ruby Warrington is a thought leader in the childfree/childless space! She has authored, Women Without Kids: The Revolutionary Rise of an Unsung Sisterhood, and in my view, the whole book was revolutionary. She discusses concepts that were swirling around vaguely in my head and my mind was blown when I saw them so well articulated on the pages of her book. We get into some of these concepts on today'...
108: The Hidden Things You Didn't Know You Were Grieving
May 17, 2024 19:00 - 30 minutes - 20.9 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! Many childless people don't even realize they are grieving. Who would have known you can grieve the loss of an imagined future? What I find is that many women without kids, even those who choose not to have them, feel some sort of grief and it's not always the loss of that future. Identifying what specifically you're grieving is key to processing it. In this solo episode, I'm giving you the first step of the Grow Through Gr...
107: 5 Steps for Navigating Mother's Day as a Childless Woman
May 10, 2024 13:00 - 30 minutes - 20.9 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! These are 5 steps you haven't heard before. You've probably heard people talk about staying off social media and opting out of Mother's Day emails. Maybe doing something nice for yourself and saying "no" to the celebrations. These are all valid things you can do to avoid feeling the pain of Mother's Day as a childless woman who wanted to be a mother. And yet, they're all band-aid solutions. None of them will actually help ...
106: The Wisdom of Aging As a Childless Woman
May 05, 2024 08:00 - 18 minutes - 13 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! Menopause is a huge transformational time for women and another topic that we don’t talk about enough. Women may joke about their memory, or hot flashes or complain about heavy periods. But they don’t talk about the deep stuff. The vulnerable stuff. Or the scary stuff. There is SO much going on for women during perimenopause and midlife, and childless women experience it, quite often, right alongside trying to start a fami...
105: Unleashing Your Inner Rebel
April 30, 2024 15:00 - 27 minutes - 18.9 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! It's hard to fit in when you are in the minority. Childless women over 40 make up roughly 20% of the population (depending on what country you live in). Sometimes I wonder how many of them are living in the larger cities because it sure feels like everyone around me in my little town are parents. But what if we embraced this unchosen nonconformity? What if we unleashed the inner rebel within us and did EVERYTHING our own w...
104: What If NOT Having Children Was the Norm in Society?
April 21, 2024 11:00 - 19 minutes - 13.3 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! In our current society, women without kids make up anywhere between 15 and 25% of the adult female population, depending on the country. Recently, I started to wonder what life would look like - what grief would look like - if that were reversed. If mothers were in the minority, would childless women feel so much FOMO, inadequacy or lack of belonging? Would the grief run as deep? Would we still wonder what our legacy or pur...
103: What To Do When Your People Just Don't Get It
April 14, 2024 11:00 - 38 minutes - 26.3 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! Have you ever come away from a conversation thinking "gosh, "people just don't get it"? Either they say something insensitive or simply can't empathize with your childless circumstances. It's definitely happened to me. Even recently. But the mistake I see in the childless space is the assumption that there is nothing you can do about it. You just have to deal with the irritation or "trigger" and move on somehow. What I ...
102: Navigating Anger as a Childless Woman
April 07, 2024 11:00 - 28 minutes - 19.5 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! Anger is an emotion that comes up a lot with my childless clients who wanted kids. Anger can be a really complicated emotion because it's not only an emotion in and of itself, but it can also disguise other emotions. What makes it even tougher to manage is that most little girls are taught not to express the tough emotions. Anger is something boys are allowed to show, but not girls. Yes, even in today's society. So you mi...
101: How Childless Women Will Change the World
March 31, 2024 11:00 - 27 minutes - 18.8 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! As I embark on the next 100 episodes on the Awakening Worth Podcast, I spend this session reflecting on the deeper reason I keep hitting record and why you should keep hitting the play button. I've come to realize that so many of us are stuck in this pronatalist ideology and it's impacting, well...really, all of humanity. It's us, the childless women, who feel it the most, but it's affecting all of us. On this solo episode,...
100: From the Partner's Perspective, with Mike Johnson (my hubby)
March 08, 2024 16:00 - 43 minutes - 30.2 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! Celebrating 100 episodes today! My husband, Mike Johnson, and I mark this special occasion together on the podcast with a conversation that makes its way through life without children from HIS perspective. As we share the narrative of our journey, from the heartbreak of miscarriage to the multitude of decisions along the fertility treatment path, we peel back the layers of our different perspectives. Mike lends his voice t...
99: Why You Need Energetic Womb Healing, with Dr. Jennifer Reimer
February 26, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour - 44.2 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! The moment I sat in quiet meditation with an energy healer, I never anticipated the floodgates of emotional pain that would open from my womb space. That pivotal encounter ignited a journey into womb healing, leading me to create womb healing retreats that help women to release emotions stored in the womb space. On today's episode, I replay a conversation that my sister, Jen, had on her show, Leading with Grace. We venture in...
98: What We REALLY Need to Be Talking About on International Women's Day
February 22, 2024 17:00 - 27 minutes - 19.2 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! This episode is a bit controversial. I think there's this an expectation that if you are a woman, you are onboard with everything International Women's Day stands for. But I'm not known for just getting on board with something simply because of an expectation. Do I want women to rise? Yes. Do I want there to be equitable pay in the workforce? Yes. Do I want to see more women at the top? Absolutely! At the same time, ther...
97: Challenging Pronatalism's Effect on Purpose and Fulfillment
February 16, 2024 18:00 - 28 minutes - 19.4 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! I'm doing a solo episode today and pulling back the curtain on pronatalism even further. In this episode, I will peel away the layers of this pervasive belief system, examining how it shapes the sense of purpose and self-worth in those of us without children. By uncovering historical and contemporary pressures from society, government, and religion, we pave the way for acceptance and a redefined sense of meaning and purpose be...
96: Childlessness and the Transformation of Our Species, with Maria Hill
February 08, 2024 23:00 - 56 minutes - 39.1 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! As a leader in the childless space, Maria Hill brings a ton of wisdom to this episode. Her story of parental and societal expectations as a woman growing up in the 60's shed so much light on what we are going through now as childless women. Maria and I cover some unexpected topics in this conversation from how Ayurveda supports the grief journey to highly sensitive people to the patriarchy and how it's impacting us all. The m...
95: Leaving a Legacy is Not As Important As You've Been Led to Believe
February 05, 2024 17:00 - 21 minutes - 14.6 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! Legacy. It's a word I hear a lot in the childless community. What kind of legacy will I leave now that I'm not having kids? As though having kids is the only way to leave a legacy. In this episode, I'll unpack: what legacy is and the role of ego in this need to leave a legacy behind how to know if you're ego is coming into play and the mistakes you might be making while trying to leave a legacy how to delink children and...
94: 3 Keys to Overcoming Regret and Fear of Regret on the Childless Path
January 29, 2024 12:00 - 25 minutes - 17.8 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! A feeling of regret and fear of future regret are two things I hear so many childless women talk about. We regret decisions and choices we made in the past that have led to our current circumstances. We also are afraid to make decisions in the present because we might regret them later. I'm going to unpack it all in this episode. You'll find out: what is regret and what purpose does it serve what happens when you stay stu...
93: This is Why I Didn't "Just Adopt"
January 23, 2024 12:00 - 36 minutes - 24.9 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! Embarking on the path of adoption or deciding against it—either one is a journey laden with emotion and complexity. Today, I open my heart to you in a candid narrative of my own experiences with the profound choice of not adopting. We'll cover the unpredictable adoption landscape, unpack societal expectations, and contemplate the often-overlooked emotional and logistical hurdles that can steer one away from this life-altering ...
92: How to Turn Grief Into Growth, With Kirsten Frey
January 12, 2024 21:00 - 53 minutes - 36.7 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! I continue to be enlightened and inspired by my good friend, Kirsten Frey. She returns for a second time on this episode to share her expertise on recovering from grief and opens us up to the multitude of different kinds of loss. We tend to think of the acute sense of loss after a loved one has passed as the primary type of grief, but there are 40 other kinds of valid loss that may not have anything to do with physical death....
91: 5 Obstacles Keeping You From a Joyful 2024
January 08, 2024 12:00 - 21 minutes - 14.8 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! I used to start every year during my pursuit of motherhood thinking, "this is going to be my year". And it never was. Once I came to terms that my future was going to be childless, it started to look pretty dismal. And yet, I wanted to feel optimistic about the year ahead. What I didn't realize was that I had some obstacles in my way that needed breaking down. Consciously. In this solo episode, you'll discover: what ...
90: Special Holiday Gift, Raise Your Vibration Meditation
December 22, 2023 17:00 - 24 minutes - 16.8 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! It's 3 days before Christmas as I record this special episode. This is not my usual all-talk episode or guest interview. Today, in this heartfelt episode, I'll guide you through a visualization exercise that promises to lift your spirits and shift your emotional state towards love and joy. So find yourself a quiet spot where you won't be disturbed, put your ear pods in and get ready to transform. This powerful meditation w...
89: Feeling Like You Don't Belong as a Childless Woman is Not Grief
December 18, 2023 22:00 - 28 minutes - 19.7 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! It's pretty normal to feel like you don't belong when you're a childless woman. We grow up thinking that eventually, we'll belong to the mom club. And then it leaves us with a pretty big feeling of exclusion when we don't get to join. Most people in the childless space, assume that this feeling of not fitting in is a part of the grief and that once the grief starts to lift, we'll also start to feel more included. But that...
88: Behind the Scenes of a Happy Childless Holiday
December 12, 2023 14:00 - 30 minutes - 21.1 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! When we want something, it's not actually that thing that we want. It's the feeling that we imagine we'll have when we have the thing. When I wrapped my head around this concept, I could use it to determine exactly what I wanted to feel and how to bring those positive emotions into the holidays. The holidays don't have to be full of dread. They used to be for me. I'd avoid anything that had to do with kids and stuck to the...
87: How to Let Go of Being Pitied as a Childless Woman
December 04, 2023 12:00 - 23 minutes - 15.9 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! No one likes to be pitied. And childless women who wanted kids are no different. I certainly don't like it and I did feel as though people pitied me when I first began to accept that I would never be a mom. But when my clients started asking how to get past pity, I realized that I didn't feel it at all anymore and had to really dig into how I shifted my perception. Because the people around me certainly haven't changed. I...
86: How to Prepare Emotionally for Holiday Gatherings
November 28, 2023 12:00 - 35 minutes - 24.6 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! If you’re already worried about feeling grief and triggers while at a family gathering or social event through the holidays, this episode is for you. I’m going to give you some solid steps for preparing yourself before, during and after so you can breeze through them like a woman of grace. You'll discover: the mistakes I (and many childless women) make when planning for the holidays how to avoid resentment and maintain your ...
85: 10 Tips to Get You Through the Holidays as a Childless Woman
November 16, 2023 20:00 - 41 minutes - 28.8 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! The holidays are probably one of the toughest times for childless women. Grief can hit at unexpected moments and the triggers seem to be all over the place. They hit our social media feeds, our shopping excursions, and the middle of the football game on TV. Even a quick trip to the grocery store can seem daunting. One of the hardest things about it might be imagining how futures holidays might look without all the traditio...
84: Prontalism Explained And How it's Impacting You
November 11, 2023 13:00 - 24 minutes - 17.2 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! If you are a childless woman who feels triggered by how mom-focused and kid-centric our society seems to be, you might be stuck in the pronatalist ideology. If you're stuck here, you often feel like you are somehow worth less than mothers, you get irritated when someone asks if you have children, you feel as though you're treated differently at work, at church or even in your social circles. Breaking free of the societal nor...
83: Navigating Step-Parenting as a Childless Woman, with Gail Miller
November 06, 2023 12:00 - 1 hour - 42.2 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! Are you feeling like you're navigating uncharted territory as a step-parent without any children of your own? I'm not a step-parent myself, but I've learned from my clients that it can be complicated with its own set of challenges and emotions. Join me today as I interview Gail Miller, who is a life coach, maternal fetal medicine physician, TEDx speaker, founder of Path Onward Life Coaching, and step-parent. Gail's journey o...
82: Expecting Empathy From Loved Ones May Be the Worst Way to Get Support
October 30, 2023 15:00 - 27 minutes - 19.2 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! If you’re grieving your dream of becoming a parent, you probably assumed at least someone amongst your family and friends would provide you with the support and empathy you need. And yet, my own experience, and that of most of my clients, is that their closest friends and family - and sometimes even their partner - are not able to offer empathy or understanding. This is why looking for support among those closest to you – or...
81: Three Unique Tools for Coping with Childless Grief, with Lisa Hohenadel
October 23, 2023 11:00 - 46 minutes - 32.1 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! Lisa Hohenadel uses an intriguing behavioural therapy method to help childless women work through the grief and triggers. It's called Dialectical Behaviour Therapy or DBT. I've never come across this particular type of therapy before and I wanted to hear more about how Lisa uses it in her coaching practice. Here's what you'll discover in this episode: what is DBT and how Lisa discovered that it would work on her own grief w...
80: The 5 Big Mistakes Childless Women Make on the Healing Journey
October 16, 2023 11:00 - 29 minutes - 20.3 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! If you've found yourself stuck in grief and triggers unable to get past it, today's episode is for you. I'm unpacking five major blunders that keep childless women from moving forward and embracing their future. And don't worry, I made every single one of these mistakes and so do my clients. I'm sharing them here not to judge, or cause you to judge yourself, but to show you that when you stop making these mistakes, your...
79: Navigating the World of Finance Without Children with Dr. Jay Zigmont
October 09, 2023 11:00 - 59 minutes - 41.1 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! Did you know that most financial plans and planning software are geared entirely to the traditional parenting path? I hadn't really thought about how my saving, spending, retirement and estate planning might be totally different than that of my child-rearing friends. Until I met Jay Zigmont. Jay Zigmont, holds a PhD, MBA, and CFP® and is the Founder of Childfree Wealth, a life and financial planning firm dedicated to helpin...
78: How To Respond to "You're So Lucky You Don't Have Kids"
September 29, 2023 22:00 - 24 minutes - 17.1 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! Has someone ever said to, "you're so lucky you don't have kids"? If you wanted kids, of course you don't feel very lucky to have that unfulfilled dream. Sometimes I wonder if parents say things like this - or complain about their kids - to us childless women because they want us to feel as though we're not missing out on anything great. But then, of course, they swoon over their kids in the next breath. In this solo episo...
77: The Missing Ingredient to Creating a Bright Future (and Present!)
September 22, 2023 11:00 - 18 minutes - 12.9 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! There's this misconception out there that if you can get past the grief of your unexpected childless circumstances, your future will somehow just appear brighter. But unfortunately that's not true in most cases. You've probably come across women in their 50's and 60's who are still struggling to feel worthy, happy and confident in their lives. Do you really want to go another 5, 10 or 20 years of living life not quite happy...
76: How to Get Past Envy as a Childless Woman
September 18, 2023 16:00 - 25 minutes - 17.3 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! Navigating a sea of baby showers and first birthdays can feel isolating, especially as a woman who has not had children. If you've found yourself avoiding friends with young ones or feeling a twinge of envy every time a pregnancy announcement pops up on your feed, you're not alone. In this episode, we're confronting those feelings head-on, not as something to be ashamed of, but as a step towards finding peace. You will discove...
75: Who Will Take Care of Me When I Get Old? With Jody Day
September 11, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 47.9 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! Jody Day is back for a second episode on the podcast! Our first conversation was so eye-opening for me, I had to have her back after I had actually digested all of what she shared with me. Jody is often referred to as the founder of the "childless movement" and is the founder of Gateway Women, a global advocacy and support network for childless women. She’s the author of what many professionals consider to be the ‘go-to’ boo...
74: Moms Don't Have a Monopoly on Busy with Dr. Jennifer Reimer
September 04, 2023 11:00 - 53 minutes - 37.1 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! This is an extra-special episode as my twin sister, Dr. Jennifer Reimer, joins me. As two women who were childless until our 40s, we unravel the deep societal pressures, personal grief, and associated triggers on the pregnancy loss and infertility journey that we travelled at the same time. We came to a pivotal moment within weeks of each other: the decision to do IVF or not. This is where our paths split. The real topic of...
73: Letting Go Of Your Childless Identity is Crucial for Embracing Your Future
August 28, 2023 11:00 - 14 minutes - 10.3 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! If you're a woman without kids, you are likely keenly aware of some of the judgments out in the media and in the world about childfree women being selfish, lonely and unable to truly know unconditional love. But as a woman who didn't make that choice, what are your feelings toward those who did? What I discovered deep within myself, was some judgment. And it was keeping me from fully embracing a happy future without children...
72: How to Find Connection With Other Childless Women with Stephanie Joy Phillips
August 21, 2023 13:00 - 55 minutes - 38.4 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! Have you ever had a deeply personal dream not come true? Have you felt pressured by societal expectations conflicting with your own path? Join us on a journey with Stephanie Joy Phillips, the incredible head and founder of World Childless Week, who will share with us her journey of not becoming a mother. As a child, Stephanie dreamed of motherhood, but life led her in a different direction - to create a community for childless w...
69: The Key to Redefining Your Legacy with BonnieRuth Rolf
August 13, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 43.3 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! In this engaging episode, BonnieRuth Rolf shares the story of how she and her husband were able to deepen their relationship and navigate grief as a childless couple. They are now developing a beautiful property in Texas to cater to other childless couples who want to do the same. You'll discover: three tools to help you process grief no matter what circumstances brought you to the childless path how to be fully supported b...
70: Venting is Actually Counterproductive to Healing From Childless Grief
August 13, 2023 11:00 - 13 minutes - 9.42 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! When you feel angry and hurt by seemingly insensitive comments and advice from friends and family, it's only natural to want to let it all out in some way. But it may do more harm than good, to both yourself and the person you're venting to, when done incorrectly. In this episode, you'll discover: what "getting things off your chest" really means what is "common enemy intimacy" and how it applies to childless women what to...
71: Unravelling the Concepts of God and Motherhood In the Face of Infertility, with Colette Eaton
August 13, 2023 11:00 - 43 minutes - 29.7 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! Listen to this eye-opening interview with Colette Eaton, an author who is passionate about sharing new and fresh ways to engage with Faith and God. Even if you are not religious, this episode will help you to uncover the root cause of some of your emotions as a childless woman. Colette shares with us: how her own struggles with infertility and grief were influenced by her Christian upbringing how the mother identity can be...
68: How to Know if You Are Stuck in Disenfranchised Grief as a Childless Woman
August 13, 2023 11:00 - 17 minutes - 12.3 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! Many childless women feel the heaviness of grief as they begin to accept a very different future than they imagined they'd have. In this episode, you will discover: What is disenfranchised grief and how to know if you are stuck in it The mistakes you might be making to avoid processing your grief The obvious and not-so-obvious things that childless women grieve The first step to moving forward Exclusive podcast for naviga...
67: Patriarchy and Pronatalism and Their Impact on Childless Women, with Jody Day
June 02, 2022 15:00 - 1 hour - 46.3 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! There is so much systemic prejudice towards childless women ingrained in our society today that stem from ancient patriarchal and pronatalist views and government policy. Most of us don't even realize the extent. I didn't realize it and received a bit of an awakening right on the show. Jody Day, the "mother" of the childless woman movement, joined me on this episode to share her story and why she started Gateway Women. Her ...
66: Applying the 5 Stages of Grief to Childlessness
May 25, 2022 19:00 - 25 minutes - 17.6 MBSend me a text and tell me your favourite thing about the pod! I think for most of us, there’s potentially a long process of coming to the realization that you are going to be a childless woman. There’s no one big moment. And yet, it still catches us totally off guard. You grow up assuming you’ll become a mother one day. You have no reason to believe that you won’t be. Whenever you meet a childless couple, you don’t even really register it or think about what their life is really like....