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Katherine Baldwin
I am a writer, coach, midlife mentor, motivational speaker and the author of How to Fall in Love - A 10-Step Journey to the Heart. I specialise in coaching women and men to have healthy relationships with themselves so that they can form healthy and loving romantic relationships and lead authentic, fulfilling lives. I coach 1:1, lead workshops and host retreats.
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Category Archives: Addiction
Being real
I’ve brought the wrong speech, I thought, as I stared at the four pages of A4 in front of me and looked up at the audience. I’ve definitely brought the wrong speech. What now? I’d written nearly 3,000 words on … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Childless, Eating disorders, Empowerment, Faith, Women
Tagged authenticity, Breakthrough, Perfectionism, Real, Vulnerability
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I want to be me
I want to be me, I thought, as I cycled along the Bournemouth seafront this morning. Not someone else. Not that woman over there with the toned, slim legs or the long, thick, glossy hair. Not that sporty girl in … Continue reading
Dread
I can remember it vividly. I left the gym at Belvedere’s, my senior school in Liverpool, and walked past the netball courts and out onto the street, where Mum was sitting in the car waiting for me. I was sobbing … Continue reading
Authentic living
“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to their graves with the song still in them.” That’s a quote by American author, poet and philosopher Henry Thoreau. It dates back to the 1840s but I fear it’s just … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Creativity, Happiness, Mentoring, Recovery, Women, Work
Tagged Brené Brown, Coaching, Packytypes, self-awareness, Strengths, TED, TEDx, Vulnerability
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Keeping the spirit of adventure alive
There was once a time, back in 1999, 16 years ago, when I flew from Mexico City to Caracas via Miami on an expired passport. I knew it had expired before I got on the plane. I’d noticed the date … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Eating disorders, Faith, Recovery, Travel, Women
Tagged addiction, adventure, adventurous spirit, Cheryl Strayed, Mexico, Mexico City, Recovery, Tarifa, Tijuana, Travel, Wild
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From fantasy to reality
I’ve been living in a fantasy world. A world in which this blog or my half-written book gets discovered, I get offered a big-bucks publishing deal and someone else writes the book for me or holds my hand every step … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Childless, Creativity, Recovery, Relationships
Tagged addiction, Do The Work, Fantasy, Maturity, Reality, Recovery, self-awareness, Steven Pressfield, Taking Responsibility, Workshop
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Boys can cry too
It’s been ages. So long, in fact, that I’ve had a birthday since I last posted and haven’t even blogged about it. I’m now 44 – and wondering how long I can keep blogging under the name, ‘From Forty With … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Relationships
Tagged authenticity, Being A Man, depression, Samaritans, self-harm, Southbank Centre, suicide, Women of the World
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The wonder of you
There was a time, some seven or eight years ago, when I’d sit in an office every day, staring at a computer screen, feeling like a light had gone out inside – inside of me. Back then, I had a … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Body Image, Creativity, Eating disorders, Perfectionism, Women, Work
Tagged Eating Disorders, Packtypes, Recovery, schools, self-awareness, self-esteem, Workshops
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Extreme self-care
A few Fridays ago, I took my first anti-depressant, just half the dose my doctor had prescribed. On the Saturday, I took the remainder of the scored pill I’d sliced in half the day before. Then on the Sunday, I … Continue reading
When everything feels wrong
There are days when everything feels wrong. Days when you feel so far away from the robust, strong, healthy, confident, dynamic go-getting person you want to be and sometimes are. Days when you wonder where your enthusiasm for life, for … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Childless, Eating disorders, Faith, Love, Recovery, Spirituality, Women
Tagged addiction, aloneness, Childless, Childless Women, Faith, forties, Loneliness, singleness, social infertility
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From Forty With Love 