When your Plan A doesn't go as planned, what's your Plan B? What does our future hold without children? Can we Google the answer? What about Jeeves?

We speak to Anne Barratt from Empowering Health about her story after IVF and a hysterectomy. Anne is a professional practitioner who employs kinesiology, EFT, counselling, hypnotherapy and a host of different modalities to help reset our minds and bodies to focus clearly on what we want for our future.

Stats: Our elder community tell us how their lives have turned out without children.

In Shit that comes up on our Feed, my guest co-host has a beef with the way women introduce themselves in a business Facebook group.

Question of the Week: What is your Plan B? What are you going to do in the future? Even if it's your Plan A!

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List of resources and articles we referenced in the episode:
Anne Barratt @ Empowering Health: http://www.empoweringhealth.clinic/anne-barratt/
Our elders talk about life without children: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/reader-center/no-kids-no-regrets.html
https://www.abc.net.au/life/women-share-what-its-like-to-live-childfree-and-with-no-regrets/11223972
Childless women in Gambia are revered for their role as messengers: https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/beyond-the-egg-timer/201501/childless-circumstances
Judy Graham @ Womanhood – https://www.womenhood.com.au/
World Childless Week Elders webinar: https://worldchildlessweek.net/ageing-without-children-2020
Jody Day: Living the Life Unexpected - 12 Weeks to Your Plan B for a Meaningful and Fulfilling Future Without Children

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In our first mini episode we talk to World Childless Week founder Stephanie Phillips.

World Childless Week 2020 is a virtual event held online through this website and on social media channels from September 14-20.

To find out more about World Childless Week: www.worldchildlessweek.net/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WorldChildlessWeek

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Today I welcome Sarah Roberts to the podcast.

We talk about grief and second chances! Sarah is not only a counsellor for childless women, she’s one of us! With over 25 years experience in counselling, teaching and community work, Sarah brings her lived experience to The Empty Cradle where she focuses on involuntary childlessness and motherhood loss. She understands the complexities of supporting women who experience involuntary childlessness.

As the founder of The Empty Cradle, Sarah aims to bring women together in loving community to mourn the loss, be transformed by the grief and create a life they love.

The Empty Cradle is a place where mourning, complexity, hope, spirituality, ambition and lifestyle collide. She offers rock solid strategies (think:  psychology, counselling, feminism, education, sociology, practical philosophy and spiritual practices) to clarify decision-making about your journey, grieve your loss and move forward with confidence about the future.
 
 Sarah believes that grief is a skill to be learned: it deepens your ability to live and love and it awakens your whole being. And being childless herself, she gets us, and to a grieving woman, it makes all the difference. So while our conversation focuses on the losses for childless women, she brings us back around to the joy we can find once we allow it.

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Resources and articles referenced in the episode:
Dr Leslie Cannold "What, No Baby?" and "The Abortion Myth": https://www.cannold.com/
Brene Brown: https://brenebrown.com/
Stephen Jenkinson "Come of Age: The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble" on Amazon

Sound engineering and original music by Jeff Willis. You can find his tunes on Spotify and iTunes
Produced by Jo Vraca