My interview on BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour

by | Apr 4, 2018 | Blog

Today has been a day that I would never have imagined happening. From that day in October 2014 when I heard the 2 words ‘unexplained infertility’ (from my Consultant), that turned my life upside down and sent me into a crazy spiral of grief, to today where...

Best Speaker

by | 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...

BME Reignite Weekend April 2018

by | 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...

My Legacy

by | 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,...

“Please do not give up on hope…”

by | 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...

Have you heard my news???

by | 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...
My Authors Podcast

My Authors Podcast

by | 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...