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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: Relationships
Shortcuts
Wouldn’t it be great if we could take shortcuts – if we could get where we wanted to go with a click of our fingers or make things happen with a twitch of our nose (anyone remember Bewitched from years … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Body Image, codependency, Eating disorders, Happiness, Relationships, Women
Tagged addiction, Alcoholics Anonymous, anorexia, bulimia, diet, dieting, diets, Eating Disorders, overeating, Recovery
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Baking my way back
It’s been more than three weeks since I’ve posted on this blog and I’m hoping you’ve all been having such a wonderful summer that you haven’t noticed my absence. If you have, you may have been thinking I’ve been having … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Body Image, Childless, Dating, Eating disorders, Faith, Happiness, Infertility, Recovery, Relationships, Self-Acceptance, Spirituality, Women
Tagged Baking, Childless, Childlessness, Dating, Eating Disorders, Pause For Thought, Radio 2, Recovery, Relationships, Spirituality, Women
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A life that matters
What would you do if you believed your life really mattered? I asked myself this the other day while sat on a striped deckchair outside Foyles bookshop on London’s vibrant South Bank. It was early evening and I’d nipped into … Continue reading
Ambivalence
It’s been so long since I’ve posted on this blog that I almost feel I’ve lost my nerve, lost my ability to write my truth. Maybe the act of writing one’s truth is like a muscle. The more you use … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, codependency, Dating, Love, Relationships, Uncategorized, Women
Tagged addiction, ambivalence, commitment, commitment phobia, compulsion, compulsive behaviour, Dating, decision-making, decisions, indecision, Love, push-pull, Relationships
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Fertility matters
Some of you will have had enough of reading about the Get Britain Fertile campaign, fronted by broadcaster and mum of two Kate Garraway and fertility expert Zita West and sponsored by First Response, makers of the pregnancy test kit … Continue reading
Posted in Dating, Fertility, Pregnancy, Recovery, Relationships, Uncategorized, Women
Tagged Childfree, Childless, Childlessness, Dr Gillian Lockwood, egg freezing, Fertility, First Response, Get Britain Fertile, Infertility, IVF, Kate Garraway, Midland Fertility Services, Motherhood, Pregnancy, Women, Zita West
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Faith and uncertainty
I asked a friend of mine the other night who’s been married for some 13 or so years and who still looked totally in love with his wife how on earth that was possible. What was their secret? How had … Continue reading
Posted in Faith, Fun, Relationships, Spirituality, Trust, Uncategorized, Women
Tagged CBT, cognitive behavioural therapy, Faith, Guernsey, Jon Kabat-Zinn, meditation, Mindfulness, Shamash Aldina
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The extra mile – one mile too many?
I went down to watch the London marathon last Sunday. Not the elite race (I caught a bit of that on TV in the morning) but the masses that followed on behind – the hundreds tens of thousands of fun … Continue reading
Posted in Happiness, Leisure, Love, Relationships, Uncategorized, Women, Work
Tagged Childfree, Childless, Dating, London Marathon 2013, marathon running, Online Dating, running, singleness, Virgin London Marathon
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The Baby Gap – the book
This is the second time I’ve used the title The Baby Gap for a blog post. The first was on April 2, 2011, two years ago. Wow, two whole years. That’s a sobering thought. Have I really been blogging that … Continue reading
Posted in Dating, Fertility, Love, Pregnancy, Relationships, Women
Tagged babies, baby, Childfree, Childless, Childlessness, children, Dating, egg freezing, Fertility, get the guy, Infertility, Internet dating, IVF, Jo Hemmings, Matthew Hussey, Online Dating, Relationships, Salli Glover, singleness
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What’s your role?
Before I plunge into today’s blog topic – What’s your role? – a quick plug for the Women of the World (WOW) festival that’s on at London’s Southbank Centre tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday. I was at WOW 2012 and loved … Continue reading
It all started here
‘Maybe No Baby’ is the headline of a feature I wrote for The Sunday Times today on infertility and childlessness, particularly among women of my generation, late 30s, early 40s, and the difficulties of meeting eligible partners. It’s on page … Continue reading
Posted in Fertility, Pregnancy, Relationships, Uncategorized, Women
Tagged BBC Newsnight, Childless, Childless Women, Childlessness, Fertility, Infertility, IVF, Newsnight, singleness, The Sunday Times
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