Category Archives: Happiness

2024: What three words?

Posted on January 2, 2024 by Katherine Baldwin

Welcome to 2024! As we enter unchartered territory and prepare to traverse new terrain, I’d like to suggest that we create a map or a guide to help us to navigate through the year in a way that honours our … Continue reading →

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How to build a brighter future

Posted on December 15, 2023 by Katherine Baldwin

We build a brighter present and future by breaking free from our past. By breaking the chains that bind us. By making choices and taking actions that are different to the ones that previously led us, or our parents or … Continue reading →

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This is how we heal

Posted on June 22, 2022 by Katherine Baldwin

I often refer to it as walking towards the fire. It’s when we go towards situations that scarred us in the past. It’s when we take a chance and risk being triggered. It’s when we put ourselves in the line … Continue reading →

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I celebrate you

Posted on February 24, 2021 by Katherine Baldwin

I know it’s hard to get out of bed sometimes; that you wake up feeling overwhelmed with grief and fear, with tears in your eyes. I know it often feels like you’re floundering, living the wrong life, or like you’re … Continue reading →

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The danger of ‘if only’ thinking

Posted on August 11, 2020 by Katherine Baldwin

I spent a lot of my childhood peering through other people’s windows, both literally and metaphorically, wishing that my life was more like theirs. Wishing I lived in their house. Wishing I had their parents. Wishing I had their clothes. … Continue reading →

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The regrets of the living

Posted on July 9, 2020 by Katherine Baldwin

I held by breath and dived down to retrieve a shell from the seabed, watching the sand cloud around my fingers. It was an unremarkable shell, yet remarkable all the same – remarkable for the journey of formation it had … Continue reading →

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Just married!

Posted on July 30, 2019 by Katherine Baldwin

Our wedding day. What a day. What a spectacular, phenomenal day. What a momentous, miraculous milestone on my journey back to myself, on my journey to love, on my journey to the heart. A journey that began almost two decades … Continue reading →

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Ambivalence and commitment

Posted on April 30, 2019 by Katherine Baldwin

This morning, I sat outside the beach hut, looked out at the vast expanse of sea before me and cried. I cried because I’d just had a massive adrenaline come-down after writing a deeply personal article on ambivalence about motherhood … Continue reading →

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Easing gently into 2019

Posted on January 3, 2019 by Katherine Baldwin

Happy New Year! Firstly, I want to say how grateful I am to you for reading my blog. I know some of you have been following me for a very long time – since this blog began nearly 8 years … Continue reading →

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Coping with Christmas

Posted on December 20, 2018 by Katherine Baldwin

Does Christmas push your buttons, stir your emotions, reopen old wounds, or prompt tears? Does it remind you of the things or the people you don’t have in your life, or the things or people you have lost? You are … Continue reading →

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