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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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Tag Archives: addiction
How I fell in love
It began with me – with falling in love with myself. I know that’s a cliché, that you’ve heard it before, read it in some glossy women’s magazine. But that’s where I had to start. I really couldn’t accept and … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, codependency, Dating, Eating disorders, Love, Recovery, Relationships, Self-Acceptance, Women
Tagged addiction, commitment, commitmentphobia, Dating, Dating with Soul, Fear, Helen Gormley, intimacy, Love, Poole, Recovery, Relationships, singleness, Wellbeing, Women
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The Embrace
I speak to my Mum and hear the relentless passage of time. In her voice, I hear my difficulties, struggles, doubts, insecurities and pain, magnified a hundred times, exaggerated by age, by decades spent alone and by the absence of … Continue reading
Posted in Faith, Recovery, Self-Acceptance, Women
Tagged addiction, Ageing, depression, Love, Recovery, sea swimming, self-acceptance, self-care, Spirituality, Women
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Why I go to therapy
Therapy has helped get me to where I am today, or most importantly where I was on Saturday and Sunday – playing in the sea with my partner, just a short drive from our new coastal home, thinking I absolutely … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Body Image, codependency, Dating, Eating disorders, Love, Perfectionism, Recovery, Relationships, Self-Acceptance, Uncategorized, Women
Tagged addiction, Codependency, Eating Disorders, Psychotherapy, Recovery, Relationships, Therapy, Women
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Keeping the spirit of adventure alive
There was once a time, back in 1999, 16 years ago, when I flew from Mexico City to Caracas via Miami on an expired passport. I knew it had expired before I got on the plane. I’d noticed the date … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Eating disorders, Faith, Recovery, Travel, Women
Tagged addiction, adventure, adventurous spirit, Cheryl Strayed, Mexico, Mexico City, Recovery, Tarifa, Tijuana, Travel, Wild
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From fantasy to reality
I’ve been living in a fantasy world. A world in which this blog or my half-written book gets discovered, I get offered a big-bucks publishing deal and someone else writes the book for me or holds my hand every step … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Childless, Creativity, Recovery, Relationships
Tagged addiction, Do The Work, Fantasy, Maturity, Reality, Recovery, self-awareness, Steven Pressfield, Taking Responsibility, Workshop
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When everything feels wrong
There are days when everything feels wrong. Days when you feel so far away from the robust, strong, healthy, confident, dynamic go-getting person you want to be and sometimes are. Days when you wonder where your enthusiasm for life, for … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Childless, Eating disorders, Faith, Love, Recovery, Spirituality, Women
Tagged addiction, aloneness, Childless, Childless Women, Faith, forties, Loneliness, singleness, social infertility
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Living with limitations
Weakness has never been one of my strengths. I’ve always detested it in myself and I’ve disliked it in others. So much so that I’ve ridden roughshod over my own weaknesses, ignoring them or fighting against them in a way … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Eating disorders, Health, Perfectionism, Relationships, Women
Tagged addiction, Eating Disorders, exercise, Perfectionism, Recovery, Strength, Weakness
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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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