Katherine Baldwin
Katherine Baldwin
I am a writer, dating and relationships coach, mid-life mentor and motivational speaker. I'm the author of How to Fall in Love - A 10-Step Journey to the Heart and I write for the national media on topics including love and dating, how to change unhelpful habits and have healthy relationships, and other aspects of personal growth. I coach people to create healthy, loving and authentic relationships with themselves and others, and lives they truly love. I lead workshops and run retreats. You can find out more about me at www.katherinebaldwin.com and www.howtofallinlove.co.uk or read my blog at www.fromfortywithlove.com
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Category Archives: Creativity
Lonely in lockdown? You’re not alone
Loneliness. Aloneness. Isolation. Lockdown. These words are roaming around my mind right now, prompting my fingers to search out letters on the keyboard. I don’t know in what order to put the words. I don’t know where this blog will … Continue reading
The bittersweet road of recovery
Whenever I get well again after being ill, I realise just how unwell I’ve been. You’d think I’d be used to this by now, but it surprises me every time. When I’m ill, I don’t actually believe I’m ill, not … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Dating, Love, Recovery, Relationships, Women
Tagged author, Brené Brown, Creativity, success, Writing
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Facing our deepest fears
I began writing this post back in May, when the feelings I describe in it were close to the surface, so close that they spilled out onto the page, or the computer screen, at great speed. But I then got … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Love, Recovery, Women
Tagged Fear, feel the fear and do it anyway, intimacy, Relationships, Vulnerability
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I want to be seen
I want to be known. I want to be seen. I heard author and activist Glennon Doyle use these words in an interview with fellow author Elizabeth Gilbert (of Eat, Pray, Love fame and more recently, Big Magic) a few … Continue reading
Posted in Childless, Creativity, Perfectionism, Recovery, Relationships, Self-Acceptance, Women, Work
Tagged author, Big Magic, Creativity, Elizabeth Gilbert, Glennon Doyle, Magic Lessons, Recovery, Truth
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Giving up on ourselves
Do you give up on yourself? Do you let the energy drain from your dreams? Do you let the light go out on your ideas? Do you get all fired up and excited about something, then feel your enthusiasm dwindle … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Creativity, Entrepreneurship, Faith, Love, Recovery, Relationships, Uncategorized, Women, Work
Tagged addiction, Blogging, Psychologies Magazine, Recovery, retreats, Udemy, underearning, Writing
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Finishing what we start
If you’re anything like me, you have lots of big ideas, lots of hopes and dreams. You write them in notebooks and draw them on big sheets of paper in coloured pens. They are the desires of your heart, or … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Happiness, Love, Recovery, Relationships, Self-Acceptance, Women
Tagged course, Creativity, Dating, Love, Psychologies Magazine, Relationships, Thinkific, Workshop
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Celebrating courage
It was International Women’s Day yesterday, a day when we celebrate our female icons and all the courageous things they’ve done over the years, a day when we speak out for women everywhere, trying to make sure women and girls … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Empowerment, Love, Perfectionism, Relationships, Women, Work
Tagged Courage, International Women's Day, IWD2017, Love, publishing, Relationships, Women, Writing
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PR for the Petrified
Can I be real, authentic, open, honest, vulnerable AND a successful, credible businesswoman? I hope so, because I don’t feel I have a choice. Not anymore. This is a topic that’s on my heart and in my mind and that’s … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Perfectionism, Self-Acceptance, Women, Work
Tagged Blogging, Boscombe, Bournemouth, Brené Brown, Creativity, Fear, imposter syndrome, Journalism, Media, PR, School for Social Entrepreneurs, shame, SSE, TED, TEDx, The Old School House, Vulnerability, Women
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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