Katherine Baldwin
Katherine Baldwin
I am a writer, dating and relationships coach, mid-life mentor and motivational speaker. I'm the author of How to Fall in Love - A 10-Step Journey to the Heart and I write for the national media on topics including love and dating, how to change unhelpful habits and have healthy relationships, and other aspects of personal growth. I coach people to create healthy, loving and authentic relationships with themselves and others, and lives they truly love. I lead workshops and run retreats. You can find out more about me at www.katherinebaldwin.com and www.howtofallinlove.co.uk or read my blog at www.fromfortywithlove.com
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I celebrate you
I know it’s hard to get out of bed sometimes; that you wake up feeling overwhelmed with grief and fear, with tears in your eyes. I know it often feels like you’re floundering, living the wrong life, or like you’re … Continue reading
Posted in Happiness, Health, Recovery, Self-Acceptance, Women
Tagged bereavement, gentleness, grief, inner child, Loss, self-acceptance, self-care, self-love
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Change is possible and it starts with self-love
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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Tagged author, How to Fall in Love, Relationships, self-acceptance, self-care, self-esteem, Self-help, self-love
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How to reparent yourself
What would a good parent do? This question has been on my lips for a few days, and I imagine it’ll stay there for a good while longer, because the topic of reparenting ourselves and taking care of our inner … Continue reading
Lonely in lockdown? You’re not alone
Loneliness. Aloneness. Isolation. Lockdown. These words are roaming around my mind right now, prompting my fingers to search out letters on the keyboard. I don’t know in what order to put the words. I don’t know where this blog will … Continue reading
How to build self-esteem
I have the wonderful ladies of the Mothers’ Union to thank for the inspiration for this post. I spoke at a Mothers’ Union event in Brockenhurst last week, after kindly being invited back following my first visit there a year … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, codependency, Dating, Eating disorders, Faith, Love, Perfectionism, Recovery, Relationships, Self-Acceptance, Women
Tagged authenticity, Codependency, Dating, Eating Disorders, Mothers Union, Recovery, Relationships, self-care, self-esteem, self-love, Single, Vulnerability
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Turning it around
I posted this picture in my Facebook group, Being Real, Becoming Whole, the other week and I wanted to share what I wrote with you too, as well as to remind myself of the magic that can happen when I … Continue reading
Posted in Eating disorders, Fun, Health, Positive thinking, Recovery, Women
Tagged Comfort eating, Eating Disorders, Endorphins, overeating, sea swimming, self-care, self-love
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Let’s talk about shame
I wrote this post on a train a few weeks back, in one of those inspired moments when I just had to get the words down onto the page or the screen. I didn’t have wifi at the time so … Continue reading
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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Loving myself consistently
I’m having a tough week emotionally. A lot of grief is coming up. A lot of pain. I’m processing a lot of feelings, digging deep, unearthing stuff that’s buried far down. What’s it all about? On the surface, it’s about … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, codependency, Dating, Health, Love, Relationships, Women
Tagged consistency, Journalism, meditation, PR, Recovery, self-care, self-love, The Inspire'd Stage, underearning
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Extreme self-care
A few Fridays ago, I took my first anti-depressant, just half the dose my doctor had prescribed. On the Saturday, I took the remainder of the scored pill I’d sliced in half the day before. Then on the Sunday, I … Continue reading