Sarah’s blog
Another Take – Why I Don’t Have a Gratitude Practice
Have you ever felt pressure to be grateful, especially in the face of loss? Come with me as I question different angles of gratitude & explore circumstances where it may not always be good for us. #childlessness #mentalhealth #holidays #infertility
My Integration Is Fire
How do you sort out Halloween as a childless person? What are your post traumatic growth triumphs? Reflect with me on the revealing power of holidays – those darned things that just keep coming around again & again! – and healing’s odd celebrations.
The Trouble With God’s Plan
A life altering loss unfortunately also comes with much unsollicited “spirit-splaining”, mostly from people who don’t get it. In honor of #worldchildlessweek, join me to explore the harm this does to those suffering not asked for losses. And to investigate the underlying motivations of these dismissive “God’s Plan” and “Meant To Be” type platitudes.
Who Says You Can’t Go Home
When you can’t have the children you wanted, the subject of your “before” life can be also be tricky. See what happened when I went back in tme to visit my hometown.
Grief Revisited
We live in a world where people commonly possess the unconscious bias that people without children are not affected by harm done to children. That we don’t care, and that we somehow lack the emotional depth to have a relevant reaction to such things. In this post I highlight that nothing could be further from the truth of course, by submitting my childless voice to the conversation in response to recent tragic world events.
Join us on Sunday May 8 for our first Afterward Honesty Virtual Yoga Offering!!
Dear Readers, Well at long last I'm finally able to offer you some yoga! I'll be teaching a FREE, basic and slow paced class for the childless not by choice on yes, "The" day (Sunday May 8th from 12:00 - 1:15 ET). PLEASE NOTE: Sunday's 12:00 class is now full. I'm...