Happy and Childless Helen

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 ackno...

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 wi...

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 toget...

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!

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 ch...

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 being...