Category Archives: Love

Loving You Is the Right Thing to Do

Welcome to Love Day, otherwise known as Valentine’s Day. Today is an opportunity to shower yourself in love and compassion and to send messages of love to those who need them the most. I was doing some journaling earlier, as … Continue reading

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2024: What three words?

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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What’s my womb for? Pondering my purpose as a childless woman

I started this blog, From Forty With Love, just before my 40th birthday, in part to share my confusion about my age and stage and to pose the questions I couldn’t get out of my head: How on earth did … Continue reading

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Is This Childless Grief or Childhood Grief?

Grief. It’s multi-layered. Layer upon layer, stacked on top of each other, infused with memories that date back years, like ancient minerals threaded through rocks. When we grieve for something in the here and now, this grief often triggers a … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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How Coronavirus taught me to be still

After years of rushing, racing and running, coronavirus has forced me to slow down. It’s like I have a brake in the middle of my chest. As soon as I start to rush or hurry, or as soon as I … Continue reading

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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

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How do I know if I want kids or not?

OK, so you might be wondering why I’m asking this question. You might be thinking: haven’t we been through this already? Haven’t we covered this topic from all angles and in all forms of media since this blog launched back … Continue reading

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