Michael and Sarah spent almost an hour chatting with Bibi. They covered a huge range of topics and that’s why we wanted to share this with you. Berenice brings you all the community news too.

Michael, Sarah and Berenice met up to share their thoughts on how Christmas went for them and their thoughts on the New Year. This is an entirely off-the-cuff recording, completely unedited and we hope it brings you comfort as we head into 2020, at a time that be reflective and brings it’s own challenges.

Christmas is hard work at the best of times, but being part of this community only makes it harder. Yes, we get it and that’s why we’ve done something different with episode 8 – The Alternative Kings and Queens speech.

In this episode Michael, Sarah and Berenice were joined by Emily Scott from IVF Fairness and Mind to talk about coping during the holidays. We shared our own experiences of how we manage at times of celebration. Emily chatted to us about good mental health as part of the team at Mind and as a result of her journey.

In this episode Michael, Sarah and Berenice were joined by Meriel Whale to talk about Mental Health as the world pauses to acknowledge World Mental Health Day. We would like to make you aware that this episode does contain mention of suicide and therefore may not be suitable for everyone to listen to.

Sarah Lawrence hosted this episode and asked some amazing questions which inspired Steph, Jody Day, Robin Hadley, Rod Silvers, Vicky Page, Anne Barratt, Karin Enfield De Vries, Yvonne Maier, Bibi Lynch and Yvonne John to talk about what World Childless Week means to them and the community. We also lingered on the big issues that challenges us and themes to tackle for the future.

In this episode Michael, Sarah and Berenice were joined by Dr. Robin Hadley, actor and writer Rod Silvers and PhD researcher Andy Harrod.

In this episode we talked about Writing It Down with Tessa Broad who chatted to us about her experiences of writing Dear You and Lesley Pyne, author of Finding Joy Beyond Childlessness. Plus we’re running a competition to win a copy of Lesley’s book! Read on for more details…

In this episode we talked about Writing it Down with Dr Lorna Gibb who shared her experiences of writing and researching Childless Voices and Dr Annie Kirby, winner of the Asham Award 2005 and author, spoke to us about plans for her creative writing workshops for our community.

In this episode we talk about Speaking Out. Sarah shared her experiences of Facebook lives and video for her website After The Storm. Berenice spoke about Walk In Our Shoes. Michael talked about his experiences. You can read their website Married and Childless here. Jody Day talked about her private and public journey. You can read all about Gateway Women right here.

Find out about your three presenters in our own unique Q&A. We picked five questions to ask each other and came up with five unique answers! There’s a lot of laughs and we hope you’ll find it fun to listen to! We’d love to know what you think on our social media channels.