by Yvonne J | Mar 3, 2018 | Blog
I gave a planned speech titled ‘The other side of motherhood’ recently at my local Toastmasters club which saw me crowned as best speaker of the night. I choose to talk about the things I hate to hear (from others) as a childless women and on...
by Yvonne J | Feb 5, 2018 | Blog
So I have completed my training with Jody and am on the road to running my own reignite workshops, the first one being in London on the 28th and 29th April 2018. I am both excited and scared but what an honour to be a part of this journey. Here’s to the next...
by Yvonne J | Jan 21, 2018 | Blog
I listened to a training exercise by Jody Day recently where she talked about the difficulties that childless women face when it comes to finding meaning in our lives as we do not have children to share our wisdom with or pass down our belongs to. I know that for me,...
by Yvonne J | Jan 1, 2018 | Blog
by Yvonne J | Dec 30, 2017 | Blog
As you know I take every opportunity to share my experience of dealing with the grief of being childless. Recently I shared the difficulties that I have experienced as a manager, at a digital story telling event hosted by NHS England. After my presentation a lady...
by Yvonne J | Dec 10, 2017 | Blog
So I am sitting in a room (with a small group of people) when one of the ladies excitedly asks me “if I have heard her news?”. I barely had a chance to reply when she quickly announced that ‘she is going to be a grandmother’. I blinked as she...
by Yvonne J | Dec 3, 2017 | Blog
A few weeks ago I bumped into an old acquaintance. We did the usual ‘hello’s’, ‘how are you?’, ‘what’s new?’ questions where I almost said ‘ummmm nothing’ as I couldn’t image her being interested in my...
by Yvonne J | Oct 20, 2017 | Blog
A must read article in the Guardian… https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/oct/02/the-desire-to-have-a-child-never-goes-away-how-the-involuntarily-childless-are-forming-a-new-movement
by findingmyplanb | Sep 18, 2017 | Blog
As world childless week draws to a close and another week starts I wanted to share this video. Justine not only puts our position across so beautifully but I felt that this message needs to be heard over and over again every day of the year....
by findingmyplanb | Sep 17, 2017 | Blog
I’m sitting under my hairdryer catching up on some reading and cam across a blog post from Jody Day (Gateway Women) from day 1 of the world childless week 2017 titled From Isolation to...
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