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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: Uncategorized
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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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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Magic moments
I started this blog on the shady terrace mentioned below, the Pacific Ocean just a short walk away. I continued it in the comfort of my London home, to the gentle hum of the washing machine. And I finished it … Continue reading
Posted in Fun, Leisure, Love, Travel, Trust, Uncategorized, Women
Tagged holiday romance, Luis Enrique, Mexico, Puerto Escondido, salsa, Travel
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Postcard from Mexico City
I’m writing this from a café in the afternoon sunshine – one of the advantages of taking a trip to Mexico in December. It’s winter here too, supposedly, and many chilangos (as Mexico City dwellers are affectionately known) like to … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Relationships, Travel, Uncategorized, Women
Tagged adventure, Childfree, Childless, Claudia Cervantes, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Loneliness, Mexico City, singleness
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Alone but not lonely
If I’d written this blog a day or two ago, as I stood with my feet in the Pacific Ocean surf and watched the sky turn pink above me, it would have read differently. Back then, as my toes sank … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, codependency, Creativity, Fun, Happiness, Leisure, Recovery, Relationships, Uncategorized, Women
Tagged Acapulco, aloneness, Gateway Women, Loneliness, Martha Beck, Melanie Notkin, Mexico, Pie de la Cuesta, Savvy Auntie
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Vulnerability
“Every morning, I set an intention to be courageous.” Those words have been ambling around my brain for the last few days, ever since I heard Brené Brown utter them on Wednesday evening, during a Q and A on vulnerability … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Uncategorized, Women
Tagged Asperger Syndrome, autism, Brené Brown, Courage, Sophie Walker, Vulnerability
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A natural high
Imagine a world where everybody lived, worked and related to each other as their authentic selves. A world where there was no pretending, no masks, no false personas. A world where the only part anyone played was their own – … Continue reading
Posted in Empowerment, Uncategorized, Women
Tagged authenticity, Carol Pyke, National Black Women's Network, NBWN, Sonia Brown
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Every body beautiful
Anger can sometimes get a bad wrap but it has its uses. In fact, it was anger that got me blogging. When I launched myself into the blogosphere some 18 months ago, I didn’t really know what I was doing. … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Body Image, Eating disorders, Uncategorized, Women
Tagged addiction, Body Gossip, Body Image, Eating Disorders, Recovery
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