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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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 stop emotional eating
Weight. Body image. Self-esteem. These are issues that come up quite regularly in my work as a dating and relationships coach. Or perhaps I tune in to them more than to other issues, because I’m a recovering compulsive overeater. For … 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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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
The wonder of you
There was a time, some seven or eight years ago, when I’d sit in an office every day, staring at a computer screen, feeling like a light had gone out inside – inside of me. Back then, I had a … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Body Image, Creativity, Eating disorders, Perfectionism, Women, Work
Tagged Eating Disorders, Packtypes, Recovery, schools, self-awareness, self-esteem, Workshops
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Progress, not perfection
I have a habit at this time of year – a time when many of us take stock of what’s gone before – to start fretting about all the things I haven’t achieved or accomplished in the previous 12 months. … Continue reading
Posted in Fun, Happiness, Leisure, Love, Perfectionism, Recovery, Relationships, Self-Acceptance, Travel, Women
Tagged Packtypes, Recovery, Relationships, Retreats For You, Self-Confidence, self-esteem, Strengths, writers retreats, Writing
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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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Beauty and the Brick
I’m not sure how many of you have followed the Samantha Brick saga, otherwise known as Brick-gate or, as I’ve decided to rename it, Beauty and the Brick. She’s a 41-year-old woman who wrote a piece for Femail, the Daily … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Body Image, Eating disorders, Perfectionism, Self-Acceptance, Uncategorized, Women
Tagged beauty, Daily Mail, Samantha Brick, self-acceptance, self-esteem, Women
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