by findingmyplanb | Oct 12, 2025 | Blog
The Weight of the Room Yesterday, I had the honour of being one of three keynote speakers at the BAATN Conference, where the theme was belonging. I went in wondering whether I’d pitched my talk in the right way. What unfolded left me wishing for more. What began as a...
by findingmyplanb | Oct 5, 2025 | Blog
When I was at school, Black history was squeezed into a neat little box. We learnt about slavery – I think (on reflection I can’t even remember if this was taught at school). I definitely didn’t learn about Martin Luther King or Rosa Parks while I was there, although...
by findingmyplanb | Sep 20, 2025 | Blog
As we draw to the end of World Childless Week, I won’t say “until next year” because these conversations don’t pause; they remain on our lips as we keep breaking the silence around our journeys of living without children. I sit back with joy as I reminisce on this...
by findingmyplanb | Jul 26, 2025 | Blog
July 26th: Our Story Turns Another Page Dreaming of a Life Unlived turned another year older. My baby is now 8 and she’s fierce, full of feeling, and ever so slightly dramatic (just like me, really). If you’d told me all those years ago, when I was staring at a...
by findingmyplanb | Jul 13, 2025 | Blog
Inclusion is not only about who is in the room, but whose stories are given space to breathe. On 9 July 2025, I was invited by Clyde & Co to deliver a lunchtime session titled “The Silent Grief: Understanding and Supporting the Childless Not By Choice...
by findingmyplanb | Jun 8, 2025 | Blog
When I was invited to speak at the Climate Justice Museum Late Night event at Oxford’s Museum of Natural History, I’ll admit I paused. Not because I didn’t want to be part of it but because I wondered: where do stories of infertility, fibroids, and reproductive...
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