Tag Archives: Codependency

2024: What three words?

Posted on January 2, 2024 by Katherine Baldwin

Welcome to 2024! As we enter unchartered territory and prepare to traverse new terrain, I’d like to suggest that we create a map or a guide to help us to navigate through the year in a way that honours our … 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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Finding the courage to thrive

Posted on December 12, 2023 by Katherine Baldwin

Are you thriving or barely surviving, just getting by? Do you use ‘survival tools’ or unhealthy coping mechanisms to numb your feelings, escape your emotional pain or cope with the challenges of life? As you’ll know if you’ve followed me … 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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I belong to myself

Posted on November 17, 2023 by Katherine Baldwin

When some of our fundamental needs go unmet in our childhoods, we emerge into adulthood with a hunger or a craving for those needs to be met. We then seek out ways to get those needs met, often harming ourselves … 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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Breaking free from the past

Posted on July 28, 2023 by Katherine Baldwin

If you are ready to break free from the legacy of your past and step forwards into freedom, this blog will inspire you to go for it. Continue reading →

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Facing fears and moving forwards

Posted on July 4, 2023 by Katherine Baldwin

Do you drive with one foot on the accelerator and one foot on the brake? I imagine the answer is ‘No’ because if you did, you wouldn’t get anywhere. Yet that’s how many of us run our lives, run our … Continue reading →

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Overcoming overeating

Posted on April 19, 2023 by Katherine Baldwin

If you overeat on your feelings, you are not alone. I spent several decades overeating on my feelings and although I have been on a remarkable healing journey over the last 20 years – finding freedom from food and body … Continue reading →

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