Category Archives: Women

All things relating to women

Being childless and motherless on Mother’s Day

Posted on March 29, 2025 by Katherine Baldwin

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 →

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How to thrive in 2025

Posted on January 4, 2025 by Katherine Baldwin

I’d love to support you to thrive in 2025 so this is an invitation to come and join me at my new blogging home, ‘From Midlife With Love’ on Substack, if you haven’t already done so. I already have a … Continue reading →

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Loving You Is the Right Thing to Do

Posted on February 14, 2024 by Katherine Baldwin

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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How to build a brighter future

Posted on December 15, 2023 by Katherine Baldwin

We build a brighter present and future by breaking free from our past. By breaking the chains that bind us. By making choices and taking actions that are different to the ones that previously led us, or our parents or … Continue reading →

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You stole my light

Posted on November 23, 2023 by Katherine Baldwin

You stole my light Dimmed it Shrouded it Crowded it out You stole my voice Silenced it Censored it Switched it to mute You stole my space Seized it Encroached on it Squeezed me small You stole my spirit Quashed … Continue reading →

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

Posted on September 17, 2023 by Katherine Baldwin

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?

Posted on September 13, 2023 by Katherine Baldwin

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

Posted on June 22, 2022 by Katherine Baldwin

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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I celebrate you

Posted on February 24, 2021 by Katherine Baldwin

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 →

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The danger of ‘if only’ thinking

Posted on August 11, 2020 by Katherine Baldwin

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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