It's taken me a while to put my thoughts into order, post-Fertility Fest, mostly because three days away from Cambridge meant coming back to lots of work and domestic stuff. It's very easy to get wrapped up in life and not take time to reflect isn't it? But it's important that we do, in order to celebrate those small moments that make it a little easier to bear the sorrows. So what did I learn from this?
Read MoreFertility Fest video, here's what we did!
I have recorded the audio for my presentation at Fertility Fest as part of the More To Life event on Wednesday 9th May, 2018. I've edited it so it makes sense post-event, so you can find out what Steph from World Childless Week and I did!
Read MoreWalk In Our Shoes, World Childless Week and a new look blog page!
The Walk In Our Shoes website has been so helpful this past week but for an entirely different reason to the ones you'd expect!
I've been working with Steph Phillips on World Childless Week. As you may remember, I wrote lots of posts and interviewed a number of Walk In Our Shoes supporters for the first World Childless Week last year and I was proud to support Steph on this venture....
Read MoreNew gallery entry from Jill
A new gallery entry from Jill, on this last day of World Childless Week 2017
Read MoreWorld Childless Week. Why?
This week isn't about one group, but about lots of groups and people coming together to share a common theme. We have other awareness weeks - Infertility Awareness and Miscarriage Awareness too, and WOW. Why do we need another? Well, why can't we have another? Let's get talking. #worldchildlessweek
Read MoreWorld Childless Week: Worthy
One quote that I return to often is this one. “Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.” William Morris.
Read MoreWorld Childless Week. Dealing with invites to baby showers and other events
I often try to put myself on the other side. If someone came up to me, some fifteen years ago (for that’s how long my journey has been), and said I can’t have children what would I have said? How could I have been kinder to that person? Would I have fixed them? Underestimated the pain and how would I have known what to do? I’m midway through a manuscript on this very subject and talking to parents and involuntary childless has been enlightening. It helps to just walk in their shoes, as we ask them to walk in ours.
Read MoreWorld Childless Week. Meet Robert
Ageing without children is a worry that many of us have. Not just about care but also whom to leave our possessions to and who will remember us. Here Robert speaks movingly of his life.
Read MoreWorld Childless Week: Twitter chat special
This week on our Twitter chat @childlesshour, we'll be talking all things to do with World Childless Hour. Share what this week means to you, meet new friends in our moderated and safe environment. We chat every Tuesday between 8-9pm BST, just search on #childlesshour.
Read MoreIt's our birthday (ish)
Two years ago, Walk In Our Shoes was first shown at the MA end of degree show at The Cambridge School of Art at Anglia Ruskin University. It feels appropriate as we look forward to #WorldChildlessWeek doesn't it?
Read MoreWorld Childless Week
As part of World Childless Week, the team is arranging for a series of Zoom chats to be recorded about the insensitive comments that the childless-not-by-choice frequently have to deal with. Can you help us?
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