self-forgiveness
I struggle to forgive other people’s fuck ups, so how am I supposed to forgive myself for not being able to have children? My beef with the concept of forgiving.…
I struggle to forgive other people’s fuck ups, so how am I supposed to forgive myself for not being able to have children? My beef with the concept of forgiving.…
How many of us have those hidden anniversaries. The ones we privately mark and are shrouded in secrecy and shame... Right off, I’d like to give a big trigger warning…
Shame is like an invisible line that none of us want to cross, but none of us want to talk about when it has been crossed… Right off, I’d like…
The first words out of my mouth to my counsellor were 'I feel so ashamed...' This month we’re talking about shame, which is right up there in terms of the…
Why is it that sex education didn’t prepare me for my infertility or childlessness? I have to be honest and say that nothing pisses me off more than our community’s…
Who decides what's sexy anyway? I’m very conscious that I’m writing this as a woman, in a heterosexual relationship and that sex for me has been very influenced by my…
Is sex really all that important? I mean I can live without it, so what’s that got to do with how I value myself? I mentioned this last week in…
Hands up, how many of us feel as sexy as we did before we ended up in this community, regardless of the route..? I’ve been thinking a lot about sex…
If your name's not on the list, you're not coming in...them vs us It seems timely to talk about pronatalism with what’s been happening with Dominic Cummings and his Epic…
Just because we don't have children, it doesn't mean we're all the same - childless and childfree It wasn’t that long ago that I was venting my spleen at the…