Category Archives: Love

The bittersweet road of recovery

Posted on November 5, 2019 by Katherine Baldwin

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 →

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Facing our deepest fears

Posted on August 14, 2019 by Katherine Baldwin

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 →

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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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Lent of Love

Posted on March 6, 2019 by Katherine Baldwin

Eight years ago, I sat on the loo at London’s Southbank Centre, glanced down at my thighs, shook my head from left to right, sighed out loud, and then made a decision. No more, I said to myself. No more. … 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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Am I childless or childfree?

Posted on September 7, 2018 by Katherine Baldwin

Am I childless or childfree? Or am I neither? Am I somewhere in between? I drafted this blog earlier this week but couldn’t finish it at the time. I’ve returned today to edit it and to share it with you … Continue reading →

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I love you but I have to let you go

Posted on July 17, 2018 by Katherine Baldwin

Have you ever loved something or somebody but had to let that thing or person go? I imagine so. We don’t get through life without loving and losing, without experiencing pain, grief and loss. Unless, of course, we choose not … Continue reading →

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Giving up on ourselves

Posted on June 20, 2018 by Katherine Baldwin

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 →

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Finishing what we start

Posted on February 28, 2018 by Katherine Baldwin

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 →

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