Tag Archives: Dating

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

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2024: What three words?

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

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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I belong to myself

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

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?

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

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

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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Coping with Christmas when life hasn’t gone to plan

If you’re feeling busy and stressed right now, that’s because the run-up to Christmas, for many of us, is a busy and stressful time. It might also be because feeling busy and stressed and doing too much are convenient ways … Continue reading

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Are you emotionally available?

I’ve been writing this blog for eleven years and every post represents a small step on my journey of emotional maturity. I started blogging here at 40 as I confronted the reality of being a single, childless woman whose career … Continue reading

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