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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: Self-Acceptance
Being childless and motherless on Mother’s Day
Back in 2011, when I first launched this blog, I was grappling with a series of questions. Will I have kids? Do I want kids? How am I going to have kids if I’m single and I don’t want to … Continue reading
Posted in Childless, Relationships, Self-Acceptance, Women
Tagged Childfree, Childless, Childlessness, grief, Relationships, self-acceptance, self-love
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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
Posted in Dating, Love, Relationships, Self-Acceptance, Uncategorized, Women
Tagged Dating, Love, Relationships, self-love, Women
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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
Posted in Childless, Dating, Infertility, Love, Recovery, Relationships, Self-Acceptance, Women
Tagged Childless, Childlessness, Codependency, Dating, Love, Recovery, Relationships, Women
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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
Posted in Addiction, Childless, codependency, Dating, Infertility, Love, Recovery, Relationships, Self-Acceptance, Women
Tagged addiction, childhood trauma, Childlessness, Codependency, Dating, grief, Love, Recovery, Relationships, Trauma, Women
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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
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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To control or to trust? That is the question
Do you trust the outcome or do you try to control it? I confess that despite many years of personal development, healing and growth, I still find myself trying to do the latter. Trying to control the outcome. Trying to … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, codependency, Dating, Perfectionism, Recovery, Relationships, Self-Acceptance, Women
Tagged Codependency
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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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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
Posted in Dating, Health, Leisure, Love, Perfectionism, Recovery, Relationships, Self-Acceptance, Women
Tagged Codependency, coronavirus, costochrondritis, Dating, Health, Love, Relationships, shame
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From Forty With Love 