Tag Archives: Relationships

Change is possible and it starts with self-love

Posted on February 17, 2021 by Katherine Baldwin

It’s nearly 10 years since I wrote my first ever blog, on a site I called Just As I Am – An Experiment in Self-Acceptance. It was the eve of Lent, 2011, and I’d had it. I’d had it with … Continue reading →

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2021: Your call to adventure

Posted on January 7, 2021 by Katherine Baldwin

Can you hear it? Can you hear the call to adventure? Can you hear the call to claim your seat at the table. To take up your space. To make your voice heard. To be the person you were always … Continue reading →

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The regrets of the living

Posted on July 9, 2020 by Katherine Baldwin

I held by breath and dived down to retrieve a shell from the seabed, watching the sand cloud around my fingers. It was an unremarkable shell, yet remarkable all the same – remarkable for the journey of formation it had … Continue reading →

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How Coronavirus taught me to be still

Posted on June 16, 2020 by Katherine Baldwin

After years of rushing, racing and running, coronavirus has forced me to slow down. It’s like I have a brake in the middle of my chest. As soon as I start to rush or hurry, or as soon as I … Continue reading →

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Facing our deepest fears

Posted on August 14, 2019 by Katherine Baldwin

I began writing this post back in May, when the feelings I describe in it were close to the surface, so close that they spilled out onto the page, or the computer screen, at great speed. But I then got … Continue reading →

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Just married!

Posted on July 30, 2019 by Katherine Baldwin

Our wedding day. What a day. What a spectacular, phenomenal day. What a momentous, miraculous milestone on my journey back to myself, on my journey to love, on my journey to the heart. A journey that began almost two decades … Continue reading →

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Overcompensating for low self-worth

Posted on November 2, 2018 by Katherine Baldwin

Do you overcompensate because you don’t feel good enough? Do you do too much, work too hard, clean too thoroughly or spend too long worrying about your appearance because you don’t feel worthy or acceptable as you are? I definitely … Continue reading →

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Embracing ‘what is’

Posted on April 6, 2018 by Katherine Baldwin

The truth is that nobody has a charmed life. Everyone experiences heartache and pain (some more than others, I grant you that). But we all have a choice as to how we live. The most important lesson I have learned … Continue reading →

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Finishing what we start

Posted on February 28, 2018 by Katherine Baldwin

If you’re anything like me, you have lots of big ideas, lots of hopes and dreams. You write them in notebooks and draw them on big sheets of paper in coloured pens. They are the desires of your heart, or … Continue reading →

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Self-love is where it starts

Posted on February 14, 2018 by Katherine Baldwin

Valentine’s Day isn’t easy for some of us. Everywhere we look, there are hearts, flowers and chocolates. Or couples smooching and holding hands. Some of us can ignore it. Some can dismiss it and deride it for its rampant commercialism. … Continue reading →

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