About the author
My name is Katherine Baldwin. I am a journalist, writer and blogger who loves to write from the heart. I began this blog as I turned 40. I'm now 45, and counting. But I'm sticking to From Forty With Love. You can read more about my journalism and writing at www.katherinebaldwin.com or follow me on Twitter @From40WithLove. Thanks for stopping by!
Tag Archives: self-acceptance
Talking About Love
In the hours after publishing my previous post – The Magic of March – I worried I hadn’t sounded positive or excited enough about my wonderful engagement news. I read it back a few times. Had my realness and vulnerability … Continue reading
Posted in Childless, Happiness, Recovery, Relationships, Self-Acceptance, Women
Tagged healing, How to Fall in Love, Love, Lunchtime Love-In, Recovery, Relationships, self-acceptance, self-love
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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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I want to be me
I want to be me, I thought, as I cycled along the Bournemouth seafront this morning. Not someone else. Not that woman over there with the toned, slim legs or the long, thick, glossy hair. Not that sporty girl in … Continue reading
Dread
I can remember it vividly. I left the gym at Belvedere’s, my senior school in Liverpool, and walked past the netball courts and out onto the street, where Mum was sitting in the car waiting for me. I was sobbing … Continue reading
I know who I am
On Tuesday of last week, a few hours before a scheduled phone call that I was pretty sure would mark the end of a brief courtship with an attractive man I really liked but kind of knew wasn’t for me … Continue reading
Posted in codependency, Dating, Happiness, Love, Relationships, Spirituality, Women
Tagged Codependency, Dating, Hampstead Heath, Kenwood Ladies Pond, Love, Relationships, self-acceptance, self-discovery, singleness
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Cultivating compassion
I just starting rereading my last blog post and I couldn’t get to the end, so if you did, congratulations and thanks for staying with me! But I’m thinking that perhaps it’d be good to write shorter posts, but blog … Continue reading
Posted in Recovery, Self-Acceptance, Women
Tagged Compassion, self-acceptance, self-care, self-esteem
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The curse of the capable woman
I spent the August bank holiday weekend with a bunch of intelligent, capable, successful, sporty women in their late 30s and early 40s. We were doing what independent, childless women of our age do on a bank holiday – pleasing … Continue reading
Posted in codependency, Fertility, Leisure, Perfectionism, Relationships, Self-Acceptance, Trust, Uncategorized, Women
Tagged acceptance, Love, Relationships, self-acceptance, Women
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