Changing the Narrative:
Empowering Women
Living Without Children
What began as personal grief over involuntary childlessness evolved into a driving force for change.
Today, I am an author, activist, and facilitator who champions the stories and identities of women who longed for motherhood but whose paths unfolded differently — raising awareness and understanding of their experiences, transforming deep loss into solidarity, and silence into spaces of connection, healing and belonging.
A little about me…
The question “Do you have children?” once filled me with dread. For years I laughed it off, hiding the pain that followed my diagnosis of unexplained infertility. Processing that grief changed everything — it led me to Gateway Women, a community for women who are childless by circumstance, and helped me find my voice.
From that healing came my first book, Dreaming of a Life Unlived: Stories and Portraits of Women Without Children — a collection born from love, truth, and the determination to make our experiences visible.
A Little About Me…
Today, I am an author, activist, speaker, and facilitator creating spaces where women who longed for motherhood — especially Black women and women of colour — can speak openly about loss, belonging, and identity. I’ve shared my story on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour and numerous platforms, helping to change the narrative around the untold experiences of women living without children.
As a trained facilitator, psychodynamic therapist, and graduate of Gateway Women’s Plan B Mentorship Programme, I facilitate workshops, retreats, healing circles and conversations that transform silence into connection and grief into collective healing.
Recent Talks
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Blog
My hysterectomy Journey
Well today, Tuesday 2nd June is day 14 post my hysterectomy... I sometimes feel like I should be whispering that "I had a hysterectomy" when I hear that I had 'major abnormal surgery'. It has been such a long journey to get here and now that I am here I expected to...
Courageous Courage
Recently I took part in Nova Reid's Courageous courage - BME edition 5-day interactive on-line training event. Yep the title itself sounds intriguing doesn't it? Hearing Nova's interview on the Project Love platform led me to come across her Ted Talk and training...
The Unseen Grief
Covid-19 has definitely taken on a life of it's own. Such a powerful, unseen force that has turned our lives upside down. This unprecedented, unplanned, unwelcomed virus brought destruction - changing our lives in a way that we could not have expected or predicted....