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Happy and Childless
Helen
25 episodes
8 months ago
Rachel Cordon is a people centred and goal focussed certified breath and body worker. Rachel has a fascination with body psychotherapy and how unconscious minds operate in our lives. In this episode, we will be exploring the power of breathwork in releasing the emotion and grief of being childless not by choice and discussing how transformative this journey has been for Rachel. Rachel now helps others to move through their own healing journey. We discuss how the suppression of emotions throug...
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Rachel Cordon is a people centred and goal focussed certified breath and body worker. Rachel has a fascination with body psychotherapy and how unconscious minds operate in our lives. In this episode, we will be exploring the power of breathwork in releasing the emotion and grief of being childless not by choice and discussing how transformative this journey has been for Rachel. Rachel now helps others to move through their own healing journey. We discuss how the suppression of emotions throug...
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Happy and Childless
Rachel Cordon : Breathing Deep to Shine Bright being Childless not by Choice
Rachel Cordon is a people centred and goal focussed certified breath and body worker. Rachel has a fascination with body psychotherapy and how unconscious minds operate in our lives. In this episode, we will be exploring the power of breathwork in releasing the emotion and grief of being childless not by choice and discussing how transformative this journey has been for Rachel. Rachel now helps others to move through their own healing journey. We discuss how the suppression of emotions throug...
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10 months ago
53 minutes

Happy and Childless
Henri Copeland - Childless not by Choice and Single
Henri is childless not by circumstance and talks openly and so eloquently about the challenges of being single together with being childless not by choice. She talks about the multiple losses she has faced - the loss of the father of her children who she never met, her children she never had, the loss of her as a mother, her future, her grandchildren and sense of security. We discuss the importance that friends and family have in our healing process and that, if only they could see being chil...
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1 year ago
42 minutes

Happy and Childless
Carrie Hauskens : Not just Surviving but Thriving after Loss
In this episode, I am delighted to be speaking to Carrie Hauskens who has been a huge inspiration to myself. Her journey involves incredible loss and adversity with the still birth of her precious daughter, Clementine due to a rare liver disease. Throughout all of her journey, Carrie has shown an incredible strength and openness to the possibility of happiness despite the challenges faced. She is the perfect example of a truly authentic human being who represents hope, resilience and a sense ...
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1 year ago
45 minutes

Happy and Childless
Work-Life Inclusion - Putting Childlessness on the Agenda
In this episode, I am speaking with Dr Krystal Wilkinson and Dr Robin Hadley around the topic of childlessness in the workplace and the absent narratives which need to be addressed. We discuss the fact that being childless not by choice is a stigmitised and taboo subject in the workplace and how the legitimacy of childlessness is a real issue compared to parenthood where policies and government legislation exist. It is essential that everybody's non work needs deserve to be addressed and ackn...
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1 year ago
47 minutes

Happy and Childless
Ruth Corden - What Hurts? What Helps? What Heals?
Ruth Corden co hosts the podcast Finding the Funny which in just over 2 years has had 1 million downloads. Ruth is childless not by choice and has struggled for years with PCOS and endometriosis and through those years so desperately wanted to have a family. In this episode we discuss Ruth's decision to finally stop trying and to move forward in life being intentional about finding joy. We also discuss being childless not by choice outside of the IVF journey and how the grief will always be w...
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1 year ago
56 minutes

Happy and Childless
Samantha Walsh - Childless in the Workplace
Sam Walsh is the founder of The Non Mum Network and has recently been on the front page of the Daily Mail and on Woman's Hour discussing the challenges of being childless in the workplace. In this episode we discuss the challenges faced being childless in the workplace and we talk about how we can raise awareness, educate and help those who are earlier on in their journey of being childless not by choice. We discuss how it is not the case of non parents vs parents but that we should work toge...
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1 year ago
50 minutes

Happy and Childless
Karin Enfield - How to Keep Shining This Holiday Season
In this episode we discuss how we both are feeling on the run up to Christmas and how we have coped over the years with holidays in general being childless not by choice. It certainly is a challenging and triggering time for so many for so many different reasons. We talk about the challenges but focus on how we have created our own magic again in life and Christmas!
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1 year ago
45 minutes

Happy and Childless
Mini Series on Grief Episode 3 : Moving Forward and Embracing Life Being Childless
This is the last episode of the 3 part series on grief with Karin Enfield de Vries. We discuss our lives now having transitioned through the worst of our grief and how we navigate the challenges that life throws our way and how we utilise all that we have learned through years of acceptancec, personal growth and healing. Karen talks so beautifully about how we must "tend to our gardens" and how when the storms hit and change the landscape we can recognise this as time for regrowth, inspired c...
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1 year ago
40 minutes

Happy and Childless
Mini Series Episode 2 - Can you Find Acceptance?
In this second episode of the 3 part series on Grief, Karin Enfield de Vries and myself discuss acceptance of our childless not by choice situation. Both of our stories are very different but there is so much commonality in our emotions, journey to acceptance and future outlook. We explore the next stage in the journey and ask if we can or need to reach acceptance in order to move forward. Karin was diagnosed with cancer in 2011 and underwent a radical hysterectomy which threw Karin into bein...
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2 years ago
42 minutes

Happy and Childless
Happy Transformations : Mini Series Episode 1 - When the Grief Hits with Karin Enfield De Vries
Karin Enfield De Vries is a grief and loss counsellor offering her services through her business, Pure Transformations. She is also a well being coach and is passionate about supporting the childness not by choice community. Karin has not only had to overcome the loss of being a parent but in 2011 she was diagnosed with cancer and had to undergo a hysterectomy. Through all of this adversity, her strength and drive to overcome her biggest challenges and learn to love life again is truly inspir...
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2 years ago
38 minutes

Happy and Childless
Rianna Hijlkema : Reclaiming Life. Stop with Positive Thoughts and do Positive Feelings
Rianna Hijkema is a a multi-passionate serial entrepreneur who has started a consulting practise and co founded a coaching company. She has been living a nomadic life for 12 years and all she owns fits into her back pack. She struggled for 6 years juggling her nomadic lifestyle with fertility and decided enough was enough 12 months ago when she acknowledged her situation and made a decision to become the happy person she innately was. Rianna shares tips and techniques which she has used and s...
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2 years ago
44 minutes

Happy and Childless
Stephanie Joy Philips : Grief Can Ease and Coexist with Joy. Life can be Good Again
Steph is the Founder of World Childless Week which aims to raise awareness of the childless not by choice community and enable every childless person to share their story with confidence. In this episode, we discuss childlessness from the perspective of being further along in the childless journey having accepted and worked through the worst of their grief. We talk about how we felt at the start of our journeys and compare that with now, recognising the progress we have both made despite not ...
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2 years ago
49 minutes

Happy and Childless
Tanya Hubbard : Acceptance throughout a Childless Journey
Tanya Hubbard is a registered therapeutic counsellor and coach specialising in supporting childless not by choice men and women. In this episode we delve into the role that acceptance plays within our childless journey. On surface level acceptance is spoken about from a position of just accepting not having children but on a much deeper level acceptance spans across so many areas of our lives. We discuss accepting that we did enough with the information we were given in addition to accepting ...
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2 years ago
50 minutes

Happy and Childless
Jessica Hepburn : The Phenomenal Strength of a Childless Woman
Coping with childlessness and numerous unsuccessful IVF attempts takes enormous courage and strength. Add this to swimming the English Channel and climbing Mount Everest and you have the most incredible Jessica Hepburn. We discuss how so many aspects of life and nature are completely out of our control which has lead to a form of acceptance that this is the case. We openly discuss the very different backgrounds to childlessness which we have from 11 failed IVF attempts for Jessica to walking ...
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2 years ago
1 hour

Happy and Childless
Katie Maynard : Childless by Circumstance is Now in the Room
80% of childless people are childless by circumstance. In this episode we address ambivalence and the role this plays in so many of our lives. Katie, like myself, is childless by circumstance and as a therapist she works tirelessly to bring childlessness "into the room" recognising the need for more awareness around both therapists and clients who are childless and who may not feel they are able to fully bring this into their therapy experience. This episode was so therapeutic and Katie offer...
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2 years ago
52 minutes

Happy and Childless
Sarah Bagg : Finding Fulfillment in Life being Childless and Single
Living through a global pandemic being childless and single has it's own unique challenges. Sarah Bagg is a qualified life coach and a passionate artist. Her blog Life, Love and Me shares Sarah's experience of egg freezing, coping with being childless and how she has managed to move forward and embrace life. In this episode we really dig deep into the challenges of ending a relationship in the midst of a ticking body clock, facing life as single and childless. We also discuss tips and techniq...
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2 years ago
48 minutes

Happy and Childless
Lana Manikowski : Changing Beliefs to Create a Life Full of Love and Happiness
Lana Manikowski is a fertility survivor, dog mum and guide to women looking to create meaningful lives without motherhood. Lana is living proof that you can indeed be "Happy and Childless" and she is sharing tips and techniques which she used to help others. This is centred around practising self awareness and deliberate thinking.In this episode we chat about the things which helped us both and also we address how to better handle the daily triggers which we are faced with.Lana is a true insp...
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3 years ago
57 minutes

Happy and Childless
Michael Hughes : Childlessness from a Man's Perspective
3 years ago
54 minutes

Happy and Childless
Aisha Balesaria
For ten years Aisha was consumed with infertility and trying to conceive - she underwent surgery for endometriosis, had numerous failed rounds of IVF and multiple miscarriages. Aisha's strength to walk away from infertility and instead embrace a childless life is truly inspirational. We discuss how our stories are so different yet we are united in the same feelings, experience and now ability to embrace our lives with optimism and positivity. Aisha wants to empower others on a similar journey...
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3 years ago
45 minutes

Happy and Childless
Joe Vitale : The Magic is Now
Joe Vitale is an international best selling author, musician and actor. Joe is famous for appearing in 24 movies including “The Secret”. He has worked for 35 years helping people create the lives of their dreams. In this episode we discuss Joe’s “dark night of the soul” moments in his life and how he has focused his thoughts, energies and actions to create a successful life, continually achieving new goals. Joe gives us an insight into how we can reach happiness now regardless of situatio...
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4 years ago
32 minutes

Happy and Childless
Rachel Cordon is a people centred and goal focussed certified breath and body worker. Rachel has a fascination with body psychotherapy and how unconscious minds operate in our lives. In this episode, we will be exploring the power of breathwork in releasing the emotion and grief of being childless not by choice and discussing how transformative this journey has been for Rachel. Rachel now helps others to move through their own healing journey. We discuss how the suppression of emotions throug...