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Midlife Rising28: How to Clear What's Blocking Your IntuitionFeeling stuck when it comes to decisions in midlife? In this episode, we explore why intuition gets quiet - from conditioning and fear to nervous-system protection - and show a clear, practical process to retrieve and trust that inner voice. Sheri shares a deeply personal example about decision-making around parenthood, while Jen walks you through concrete tools you can use right away to separate your true desires from the “shoulds.” If you want to stop being driven by worry, or what everyone else wants for you - and start making choices that feel aligned, this episod...
2026-02-0546 minMidlife Rising16: Why Supplements Aren’t Working: The Missing Link to Calming Your SymptomsIf you’ve been trying supplement after supplement, hoping something will finally bring your energy back, or white-knuckling your way through perimenopause thinking you just have to survive it, this conversation might change how you see everything that’s happening in your body.In this episode, we introduce the Chakra Map of Midlife, our holistic framework that reframes menopause as not just a physical event, but a transformation of body, mind, and spirit. We explore how emotional and spiritual imbalances can manifest as physical symptoms, and how midlife is actually your body’s invitat...
2025-11-1339 min
Awakening Worth in Childless Women149: Becoming Myself: What I Learned From the Women Who Never Became MothersI started this podcast back in 2020, thinking it was about grief. I was focusing on miscarriage. It was called Love and Loss. And then as my own journey evolved, as I had to accept that I was never going to have children, I realized that I had so much more to talk about than just the grief. And as I worked with childless women, I began to see something deeper. Beneath the grief was this equally aching emotion – and a belief: I am not enough.” I am not good enough. I am treated like a second class citizen. ...
2025-06-0829 minAwakening Worth in Childless Women148: Did You Know That You've Been Part of a Revolution?So many women try to fix the pain of childlessness by avoiding baby showers, cutting off triggering friends, or demanding others say the “right thing.” But what if the true revolution isn’t about protecting yourself from the world… but reclaiming your place in it?In this second episode of our 3-part closing series (so go back to ep. 147 if you haven't listened to it yet), we unravel the common mistakes women make when trying to relieve the pain of being “othered.” We revisit the work you’ve already done by listening to this podcast and show you what’s tru...
2025-06-0123 minAwakening Worth in Childless Women147: 7 Signs There's More to Your Childless Grief Than You ThinkI make a BIG announcement at the beginning of this episode so tune in to find out more about the future of the Awakening Worth Pod. And then, the rest of the episode is for the childless woman who wonders why she still feels stuck in grief after letting go of motherhood. It's not just grief you’ve been carrying. It’s the deep, unspoken belief that your worth was tied to becoming a mother.In this opening chapter of our final 3-part podcast series, I share the personal realization that changed everything for me: triggers are not j...
2025-05-2537 minAwakening Worth in Childless Women146: The Invisible Struggles of Menopause as a Childless WomanWhen you're childless, midlife and menopause can feel like much more than a biological transition. It's a spiritual reckoning. Especially when the world thinks that the only value women add after menopause is "grandmother" - and you don't get to be one.In this deeply honest episode, we’re naming what few dare to say: that for childless women, midlife and menopause come with a unique, often invisible layer of grief. Not just hot flashes—but heartbreak. Not just hormone shifts—but identity shifts. ✨ If you're silently asking yourself:“What’s my worth now if I’m not a...
2025-05-1928 minAwakening Worth in Childless Women145: Five Unique Steps to Navigate Mother's DayI know that Mother's Day is one of the toughest days of the year for us women without kids. When I went through my first couple of Mother's Days, I followed all the advice I heard online....Just stay off social media. Just pretend it's just like any other day. Do something nice for yourself. These were all things that worked to help me push through the day, but really just amounted to band-aid solutions. They didn't actually me to fully let go of the triggers leading up to it or the pain I expe...
2025-05-1132 minAwakening Worth in Childless Women144: The Biggest Lie You've Been Told As a Childless WomanWhat if the very thing you thought disqualified you from living a meaningful and powerful life… was actually the very thing meant to ignite it?In this episode, I’m speaking directly to the woman who didn’t get the life she planned. The one who didn’t become the mother she dreamed of being—and wonders if she’s now supposed to just sit on the sidelines while everyone else builds, leads, and creates.If that’s you, I want you to know: you were made for...
2025-05-0419 minAwakening Worth in Childless Women143: The Huge Cost of Being a "Good Girl" as a Childless WomanWhat if I told you that being being a people pleaser might be the very thing holding you back from feeling free, worthy, and at peace in your own life?This episode is for the high-achieving, childless woman who is tired of over-functioning, over-giving, and still never feeling like enough. If you find yourself wondering…“Am I being selfish?”“Do people think I have it too easy?”“Should I be doing more?”…then you are going to resonate with this conversation.Here's a big truth we unpack: People-pleasing isn’t kindness—it’s self-abandonmen...
2025-04-2729 minAwakening Worth in Childless Women139: How to Stop Holding Back Your Opinions About ParentingDo you ever find yourself in a conversation about parenting and, even though you have advice to share, you’re afraid to speak up because you’re afraid someone will say, ‘You can't possibly understand—you don’t have kids.’You might feel invisible in family gatherings, stop yourself from contributing to kid-focused discussions, or apologize and add disclaimers before sharing your perspective, like, "I know I don’t have kids, but…’It's very important that you start speaking up in these situations, and we're going to talk about why in this episode. Today's conversation...
2025-03-2123 minAwakening Worth in Childless Women137: The Unconventional Way to Feel Equity at Work For Childless WomenIf you're frustrated with workplace structures, experiencing inequities, or feeling envy towards mothers or other women - this episode is for you. This is Part 2 of a discussion I had with my sister, Jen, about women in the workplace and the experiences of both mothers and childless women. This episode might ruffle some feathers. Jen and I are going to lay out why the diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives (or dismantling of them right now in the US) might not matter. Then, we suggest some new and unconventional ways to find equity in the...
2025-03-091h 04Awakening Worth in Childless Women136: The Untold Power Struggle: Women, Work & MotherhoodI've been avoiding this topic, but it's time we talk about it. At some point along the way, most of my clients mention "work", and how being childless can be a unique experience in the workplace, no matter what kind of workplace it is.It's International Women's Day as we publish this episode, and with that comes renewed vigour for gender equality in the workplace. On today’s ep, my sister, Jen, who is a leadership coach and expert in boundaries and busy-ness, joins me to flesh out what it means to be a woman (wit...
2025-03-0253 min
The EmbattledDisablity and Health CareThis podcast episode explores the impact of U.S. political party stances on healthcare, particularly for those with chronic illnesses and disabilities. Host Sheri Johnson discusses how healthcare policies affect daily life, covering topics such as insurance coverage, medication costs, and disability rights. She breaks down the approaches of major parties:
2025-02-1523 minAwakening Worth in Childless Women119: How To Shift Your Reaction to "Miserable Childless Cat Ladies"If you are anything like me, you're probably tired of hearing about JD Vance and the comments he made publicly about childless women being miserable cat ladies and having no stake in America's future. I'm not even American, and yet angry reactions to this have been filling my feed these days.The thing is, the majority of them have been simply reactions to his comments. And my question became, "what good is this doing?"So I'm taking a different approach on the pod this week and actually showing you how to dissipate any re...
2024-08-0428 minAwakening Worth in Childless Women118: 7 Signs You Might Need a Mindset TweakIf you want to be able to answer questions like “do you have kids” with authenticity instead of awkwardness, you must shift your mindset. It's not enough to just rehearse how you'll respond. And if you're anything like I used to be, what you're rehearsing might feel more defensive and hurt than empowering. When I first realized that I wasn't going to have kids, I just wanted everyone to just stop asking me about kids, stop giving me advice and stop saying things I didn’t want to hear. But once I realized that it was my own minds...
2024-07-2824 minAwakening Worth in Childless Women117: Stop Waiting For Time to Change Everything"Time heals all wounds" is the biggest lie we've been told about grief. I used to believe this lie, myself. After any sort of big emotion, I thought time would eventually clear it away. This is a super-short solo episode where I break down why this common, widely-held belief is actually a myth, and what you can do about it. This is the second episode in my summer series on how to answer all the insensitive questions and remarks we get as childless women. Tune in each week all summer long if you want to have...
2024-07-2108 minAwakening Worth in Childless Women116: How to Answer The "Insensitive" Questions and CommentsDo you have kids? Who's going to take care of you when you're old? What's your purpose then? You can borrow my kids anytime! You've probably heard them all, or at least some of the questions and comments that bother us women without kids. Maybe you've thought to yourself, or maybe even out loud, "I wish people would just stop asking questions or saying insensitive things". And if you have, you might have noticed that there's always someone else who says something that gets under your skin and sometimes it comes right out of left field.I...
2024-07-1525 minAwakening Worth in Childless Women115: Let's Talk Terminology for Women Without KidsChildless? Childfree? Woman Without Kids? Take your pick! I've been really curious about how women who don't have kids and wanted them identify themselves. Some appear to be really attached to the Childless Not By Choice term, and yet my own experience and in the multiple discussions we've had in my group program, childless seems to make us FEEL less. In this solo episode, I unpack all the different terms, the fact that it's not as black and white as childfree versus childless, and how to detach yourself from the terminology altogether. If you...
2024-07-0824 minAwakening Worth in Childless Women114: Navigating Loneliness As a Childless WomanFeeling lonely is one of the most common complaints I hear from childless women so if you're feeling lonely, you are definitely not the only one!I felt lonely too when I first started down the path to permanently childless, especially once my husband seemed to have moved forward without me and didn't seem to understand what I was going through. So I thought it was high time to talk more openly about loneliness and how to dissipate it. Tune into this solo episode to find out: why retreating and avoiding the situations that mak...
2024-07-0121 minAwakening Worth in Childless Women113: Why I Decided Against IVFThere was a time when I didn't quite feel like I had found a place within the childless community and the reason was that I had not done IVF. It seemed as though so many of the women there had tried IVF and they had this common language and terms that I wasn't familiar with. Then I realized that there are SO many different paths that all converge on leading a life without children and yet perhaps there were other women out there who felt like I did. So on today's episode, I'm pulling back the curtains on w...
2024-06-2334 minAwakening Worth in Childless Women112: How to Get Through Emotions After Speeches Like Harrison Butker'sHarrison Butker's commencement speech at Benedictine College ruffled a LOT of feathers, especially within the childfree community. There were a lot of insults thrown at him, arguments started on social media comment sections, even calls to cancel his NFL contract. Were they justified? In my opinion, it doesn't really matter. What matters is this: how do YOU feel when you hear words like Harrison's and if it's outrage, do you know how to dissipate that? You might think you don't want to dissipate that anger, because, well, it's justified right? But what good is it, if everyone just w...
2024-06-1734 minAwakening Worth in Childless Women111: Purpose is Not Something You Find (Part 2)Download your free guide to Finding Purpose Beyond Parenthood: Getting Through Grief and Triggers to a Life of Meaning and Joy!Last week I talked about how purpose is not something you "find". It's also not a singular mission. It's not a destination. And it doesn't have to be big. Once you begin to practice all the things that I outlined that will bring you a sense of meaning and purpose, you may find that you are still struggling. It might mean that there is something standing in the way. Identifying your personal obstac...
2024-06-1132 minAwakening Worth in Childless Women110: Purpose is Not Something You Find (Part 1)Download your free guide to Finding Purpose Beyond Parenthood: Getting Through Grief and Triggers to a Life of Meaning and Joy!Purpose is not some concept that you find. It's not a destination. It's not singular. And it doesn't come from having kids. I understand why you believe it does. I did too. It's because society tells us that when you have kids, you'll be flooded with purpose. Especially as women, becoming a mother is supposed to be our sole (and soul) purpose. And when we don't get to have kids, we end up feeling lost...
2024-06-0227 minAwakening Worth in Childless Women109: The Unsung Sisterhood of Women Without Kids, With Ruby WarringtonIt is so clear to me that Ruby Warrington is a thought leader in the childfree/childless space! She has authored, Women Without Kids: The Revolutionary Rise of an Unsung Sisterhood, and in my view, the whole book was revolutionary. She discusses concepts that were swirling around vaguely in my head and my mind was blown when I saw them so well articulated on the pages of her book.We get into some of these concepts on today's episode. Topics ranging from the "motherhood spectrum" to the urge to leave a legacy and it's link to the fear...
2024-05-271h 06Awakening Worth in Childless Women108: The Hidden Things You Didn't Know You Were GrievingMany childless people don't even realize they are grieving. Who would have known you can grieve the loss of an imagined future? What I find is that many women without kids, even those who choose not to have them, feel some sort of grief and it's not always the loss of that future. Identifying what specifically you're grieving is key to processing it.In this solo episode, I'm giving you the first step of the Grow Through Grief pillar of my framework: identify what hidden grief might be lying under the surface. That is, after you realize or a...
2024-05-1730 minAwakening Worth in Childless Women107: 5 Steps for Navigating Mother's Day as a Childless WomanThese are 5 steps you haven't heard before. You've probably heard people talk about staying off social media and opting out of Mother's Day emails. Maybe doing something nice for yourself and saying "no" to the celebrations. These are all valid things you can do to avoid feeling the pain of Mother's Day as a childless woman who wanted to be a mother.And yet, they're all band-aid solutions. None of them will actually help you feel better next year on this day. Or throughout the year. None of them will help you to live a happy, purpose-driven, joyful...
2024-05-1030 minAwakening Worth in Childless Women106: The Wisdom of Aging As a Childless WomanMenopause is a huge transformational time for women and another topic that we don’t talk about enough. Women may joke about their memory, or hot flashes or complain about heavy periods. But they don’t talk about the deep stuff. The vulnerable stuff. Or the scary stuff. There is SO much going on for women during perimenopause and midlife, and childless women experience it, quite often, right alongside trying to start a family before it’s too late. That, to me, adds a whole other element. In this solo episode, I shed light on:what childl...
2024-05-0518 minAwakening Worth in Childless Women105: Unleashing Your Inner RebelIt's hard to fit in when you are in the minority. Childless women over 40 make up roughly 20% of the population (depending on what country you live in). Sometimes I wonder how many of them are living in the larger cities because it sure feels like everyone around me in my little town are parents. But what if we embraced this unchosen nonconformity? What if we unleashed the inner rebel within us and did EVERYTHING our own way? How liberating would that feel, especially if you let go of what everyone else thought about it?In this...
2024-04-3027 minAwakening Worth in Childless Women104: What If NOT Having Children Was the Norm in Society?In our current society, women without kids make up anywhere between 15 and 25% of the adult female population, depending on the country. Recently, I started to wonder what life would look like - what grief would look like - if that were reversed. If mothers were in the minority, would childless women feel so much FOMO, inadequacy or lack of belonging? Would the grief run as deep? Would we still wonder what our legacy or purpose is?Join me for this solo episode where I contemplate:aging in a world where childless women made up a la...
2024-04-2119 minAwakening Worth in Childless Women103: What To Do When Your People Just Don't Get ItHave you ever come away from a conversation thinking "gosh, "people just don't get it"? Either they say something insensitive or simply can't empathize with your childless circumstances. It's definitely happened to me. Even recently. But the mistake I see in the childless space is the assumption that there is nothing you can do about it. You just have to deal with the irritation or "trigger" and move on somehow. What I have noticed, in myself and my clients, is that there IS something you can do about it. The first step is recognizing when it's ha...
2024-04-1438 minAwakening Worth in Childless Women102: Navigating Anger as a Childless WomanAnger is an emotion that comes up a lot with my childless clients who wanted kids. Anger can be a really complicated emotion because it's not only an emotion in and of itself, but it can also disguise other emotions. What makes it even tougher to manage is that most little girls are taught not to express the tough emotions. Anger is something boys are allowed to show, but not girls. Yes, even in today's society. So you might be someone who was conditioned to suppress anger, and maybe other negative emotions as well. Join me on...
2024-04-0728 minAwakening Worth in Childless Women101: How Childless Women Will Change the WorldAs I embark on the next 100 episodes on the Awakening Worth Podcast, I spend this session reflecting on the deeper reason I keep hitting record and why you should keep hitting the play button. I've come to realize that so many of us are stuck in this pronatalist ideology and it's impacting, well...really, all of humanity. It's us, the childless women, who feel it the most, but it's affecting all of us. On this solo episode, I'm delving into:what pronatalism is and why you need to start paying attention to how it's aff...
2024-03-3127 minAwakening Worth in Childless Women100: From the Partner's Perspective, with Mike Johnson (my hubby)Celebrating 100 episodes today! My husband, Mike Johnson, and I mark this special occasion together on the podcast with a conversation that makes its way through life without children from HIS perspective. As we share the narrative of our journey, from the heartbreak of miscarriage to the multitude of decisions along the fertility treatment path, we peel back the layers of our different perspectives. Mike lends his voice to explore the complexities of a partner's role in facing childlessness, an area frequently overshadowed by the focus on women. We shed light on the decision-making process behind IVF and dono...
2024-03-0843 minAwakening Worth in Childless Women99: Why You Need Energetic Womb Healing, with Dr. Jennifer ReimerThe moment I sat in quiet meditation with an energy healer, I never anticipated the floodgates of emotional pain that would open from my womb space. That pivotal encounter ignited a journey into womb healing, leading me to create womb healing retreats that help women to release emotions stored in the womb space. On today's episode, I replay a conversation that my sister, Jen, had on her show, Leading with Grace. We venture into the transformative power of acknowledging and addressing womb trauma, not just for those who've grappled with infertility or sexual trauma, but for any (an...
2024-02-261h 04Awakening Worth in Childless Women98: What We REALLY Need to Be Talking About on International Women's DayThis episode is a bit controversial. I think there's this an expectation that if you are a woman, you are onboard with everything International Women's Day stands for. But I'm not known for just getting on board with something simply because of an expectation. Do I want women to rise? Yes. Do I want there to be equitable pay in the workforce? Yes. Do I want to see more women at the top? Absolutely! At the same time, there are some aspects of IWD that I look at from a different perspective. I'm sharing all my thoughts on this...
2024-02-2227 minAwakening Worth in Childless Women97: Challenging Pronatalism's Effect on Purpose and FulfillmentI'm doing a solo episode today and pulling back the curtain on pronatalism even further. In this episode, I will peel away the layers of this pervasive belief system, examining how it shapes the sense of purpose and self-worth in those of us without children. By uncovering historical and contemporary pressures from society, government, and religion, we pave the way for acceptance and a redefined sense of meaning and purpose beyond traditional expectations.Tune in to find out: what pronatalism is and how it affects our subconscious beliefs about purposehow my own sense of purpose and ful...
2024-02-1628 minAwakening Worth in Childless Women96: Childlessness and the Transformation of Our Species, with Maria HillAs a leader in the childless space, Maria Hill brings a ton of wisdom to this episode. Her story of parental and societal expectations as a woman growing up in the 60's shed so much light on what we are going through now as childless women.Maria and I cover some unexpected topics in this conversation from how Ayurveda supports the grief journey to highly sensitive people to the patriarchy and how it's impacting us all. The most fascinating part of the conversation for me though, was on the topic of how our current culture p...
2024-02-0956 minAwakening Worth in Childless Women95: Leaving a Legacy is Not As Important As You've Been Led to BelieveLegacy. It's a word I hear a lot in the childless community. What kind of legacy will I leave now that I'm not having kids? As though having kids is the only way to leave a legacy.In this episode, I'll unpack: what legacy is and the role of ego in this need to leave a legacy behindhow to know if you're ego is coming into play and the mistakes you might be making while trying to leave a legacyhow to delink children and legacystrategies for redefining legacyTo get Sheri's FREE guide to Create Your...
2024-02-0521 minAwakening Worth in Childless Women94: 3 Keys to Overcoming Regret and Fear of Regret on the Childless PathA feeling of regret and fear of future regret are two things I hear so many childless women talk about. We regret decisions and choices we made in the past that have led to our current circumstances. We also are afraid to make decisions in the present because we might regret them later.I'm going to unpack it all in this episode. You'll find out: what is regret and what purpose does it servewhat happens when you stay stuck in regret or stuck in decisions because of the fear of ithow to make peace with it and...
2024-01-2925 minAwakening Worth in Childless Women93: This is Why I Didn't "Just Adopt"Embarking on the path of adoption or deciding against it—either one is a journey laden with emotion and complexity. Today, I open my heart to you in a candid narrative of my own experiences with the profound choice of not adopting. We'll cover the unpredictable adoption landscape, unpack societal expectations, and contemplate the often-overlooked emotional and logistical hurdles that can steer one away from this life-altering decision.Listen to this episode and also discover:How I answer the question, "why not just adopt?"How shame and self-worth show up during the route to and...
2024-01-2336 minAwakening Worth in Childless Women92: How to Turn Grief Into Growth, With Kirsten FreyI continue to be enlightened and inspired by my good friend, Kirsten Frey. She returns for a second time on this episode to share her expertise on recovering from grief and opens us up to the multitude of different kinds of loss. We tend to think of the acute sense of loss after a loved one has passed as the primary type of grief, but there are 40 other kinds of valid loss that may not have anything to do with physical death. The realization that you're never going to be a mother is one of them. ...
2024-01-1253 minAwakening Worth in Childless Women91: 5 Obstacles Keeping You From a Joyful 2024I used to start every year during my pursuit of motherhood thinking, "this is going to be my year". And it never was. Once I came to terms that my future was going to be childless, it started to look pretty dismal. And yet, I wanted to feel optimistic about the year ahead. What I didn't realize was that I had some obstacles in my way that needed breaking down. Consciously. In this solo episode, you'll discover: what those 5 obstacles are how to identify if they're standing in the way of your joyful 2024what to do if they a...
2024-01-0821 minAwakening Worth in Childless Women90: Special Holiday Gift, Raise Your Vibration MeditationIt's 3 days before Christmas as I record this special episode. This is not my usual all-talk episode or guest interview. Today, in this heartfelt episode, I'll guide you through a visualization exercise that promises to lift your spirits and shift your emotional state towards love and joy. So find yourself a quiet spot where you won't be disturbed, put your ear pods in and get ready to transform. This powerful meditation will change your whole day, if not your entire holiday. If you are a childless woman, and you want more of this, meditations and visua...
2023-12-2224 minAwakening Worth in Childless Women89: Feeling Like You Don't Belong as a Childless Woman is Not GriefIt's pretty normal to feel like you don't belong when you're a childless woman. We grow up thinking that eventually, we'll belong to the mom club. And then it leaves us with a pretty big feeling of exclusion when we don't get to join. Most people in the childless space, assume that this feeling of not fitting in is a part of the grief and that once the grief starts to lift, we'll also start to feel more included. But that is not the case. In this episode, I'm going to share :why belonging is act...
2023-12-1828 minAwakening Worth in Childless Women88: Behind the Scenes of a Happy Childless HolidayWhen we want something, it's not actually that thing that we want. It's the feeling that we imagine we'll have when we have the thing. When I wrapped my head around this concept, I could use it to determine exactly what I wanted to feel and how to bring those positive emotions into the holidays.The holidays don't have to be full of dread. They used to be for me. I'd avoid anything that had to do with kids and stuck to the adults-only parties and activities as much as I could. And then I suffered through the r...
2023-12-1230 minAwakening Worth in Childless Women87: How to Let Go of Being Pitied as a Childless WomanNo one likes to be pitied. And childless women who wanted kids are no different. I certainly don't like it and I did feel as though people pitied me when I first began to accept that I would never be a mom. But when my clients started asking how to get past pity, I realized that I didn't feel it at all anymore and had to really dig into how I shifted my perception. Because the people around me certainly haven't changed. I did.On this episode, you're going to find out:what pity really is and w...
2023-12-0423 minAwakening Worth in Childless Women86: How to Prepare Emotionally for Holiday GatheringsIf you’re already worried about feeling grief and triggers while at a family gathering or social event through the holidays, this episode is for you. I’m going to give you some solid steps for preparing yourself before, during and after so you can breeze through them like a woman of grace.You'll discover:the mistakes I (and many childless women) make when planning for the holidayshow to avoid resentment and maintain your boundariesthe steps you can take before, during and after a gathering so you can actually enjoy socializing, even when there are kids aroun...
2023-11-2835 minAwakening Worth in Childless Women85: 10 Tips to Get You Through the Holidays as a Childless WomanThe holidays are probably one of the toughest times for childless women. Grief can hit at unexpected moments and the triggers seem to be all over the place. They hit our social media feeds, our shopping excursions, and the middle of the football game on TV. Even a quick trip to the grocery store can seem daunting. One of the hardest things about it might be imagining how futures holidays might look without all the traditions you thought you'd be creating with your kids. I know how this all feels and yet, I've managed to create...
2023-11-1641 minAwakening Worth in Childless Women84: Prontalism Explained And How it's Impacting YouIf you are a childless woman who feels triggered by how mom-focused and kid-centric our society seems to be, you might be stuck in the pronatalist ideology. If you're stuck here, you often feel like you are somehow worth less than mothers, you get irritated when someone asks if you have children, you feel as though you're treated differently at work, at church or even in your social circles. Breaking free of the societal norms and expectations that stem from pronatalism is a key piece to feeling worthy in the world. This is why I do what I do...
2023-11-1124 minAwakening Worth in Childless Women83: Navigating Step-Parenting as a Childless Woman, with Gail MillerAre you feeling like you're navigating uncharted territory as a step-parent without any children of your own? I'm not a step-parent myself, but I've learned from my clients that it can be complicated with its own set of challenges and emotions.Join me today as I interview Gail Miller, who is a life coach, maternal fetal medicine physician, TEDx speaker, founder of Path Onward Life Coaching, and step-parent. Gail's journey of acceptance as a childless woman and step-parent is a testament of resilience and courage, a saga that will move, inspire, and empower you to ch...
2023-11-061h 01Awakening Worth in Childless Women82: Expecting Empathy From Loved Ones May Be the Worst Way to Get SupportIf you’re grieving your dream of becoming a parent, you probably assumed at least someone amongst your family and friends would provide you with the support and empathy you need. And yet, my own experience, and that of most of my clients, is that their closest friends and family - and sometimes even their partner - are not able to offer empathy or understanding. This is why looking for support among those closest to you – or worse, expecting it from them – might not be the best way to get the support you need. Here's what you...
2023-10-3027 minAwakening Worth in Childless Women81: Three Unique Tools for Coping with Childless Grief, with Lisa HohenadelLisa Hohenadel uses an intriguing behavioural therapy method to help childless women work through the grief and triggers. It's called Dialectical Behaviour Therapy or DBT. I've never come across this particular type of therapy before and I wanted to hear more about how Lisa uses it in her coaching practice. Here's what you'll discover in this episode:what is DBT and how Lisa discovered that it would work on her own grief while coming to terms with the fact that she would never be a momhow to manage some of the trickier situations we encounter as chi...
2023-10-2346 min