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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: Happiness
This is how we heal
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
Posted in codependency, Creativity, Empowerment, Fun, Happiness, Love, Recovery, Relationships, Self-Acceptance, Women
Tagged confidence, Recovery, retreat, self-esteem, self-love, Singing, Trauma
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I celebrate you
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
Posted in Happiness, Health, Recovery, Self-Acceptance, Women
Tagged bereavement, gentleness, grief, inner child, Loss, self-acceptance, self-care, self-love
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The danger of ‘if only’ thinking
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
Posted in Addiction, Childless, Eating disorders, Happiness, Love, Recovery, Relationships, Self-Acceptance, Women
Tagged Childfree, Childless, Childlessness, deepak chopra, grief, meditation, Mindfulness, self-acceptance
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The regrets of the living
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
Posted in Career change, Empowerment, Happiness, Health, Love, Relationships, Self-Acceptance, Women
Tagged Bonnie Ware, Career change, life change, Love, regret, Relationships
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Just married!
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
Posted in Childless, Happiness, Love, Perfectionism, Recovery, Relationships, Women
Tagged dating advice, dating coach, Love, Love Coach, marriage, Recovery, Relationships, self-love
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Ambivalence and commitment
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
Posted in Childless, codependency, Dating, Happiness, Love, Recovery, Relationships, Women
Tagged ambivalence, author, Childfree, Childless, Childlessness, commitment, Love, retreats, The Guardian, Writing
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Easing gently into 2019
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
Posted in Addiction, codependency, Happiness, Love, Recovery, Relationships, Self-Acceptance, Women
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Coping with Christmas
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
Posted in Happiness, Self-Acceptance, Spirituality, Women
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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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Our time is now
Last week, I sat in a clinic with my mum and wiped my tears away as the nurse diagnosed her with a form of dementia. It shouldn’t have come as a shock – her memory had been failing for a … Continue reading
Posted in Dating, Faith, Happiness, Love, Recovery, Relationships, Self-Acceptance, Trust, Women
Tagged Dementia, Health, retreat, Wellbeing
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