Awakening Worth in Childless Women
Sheri Johnson
You are about to discover how to embrace your life as a childless woman who wanted to have a family and never could. This is where we combine mindset shifting tools with practical tips so you can break free of outdated societal norms that condition us all to believe that women without kids don’t measure up to the moms.
This is where we take action on processing grief and accelerating the healing journey so you can feel free. When childless women awaken their self-worth, they transform from hopeless and inadequate to worthy, accepting and purposeful.
Think of this podcast as your weekly dose of lightbulb moments that will shift your perspective as a childless woman - about yourself and your innate power to change yourself, your future and even the world we live in. If that’s what you want, then start listening!
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63: How Your Beliefs May Be Keeping You From Loving Your Childless Life with Lana Manikowski
Awakening Worth in Childless Women
05/04/22 • 60 min
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Are you struggling to love your life again as you step onto the childless path? Do you think it's possible that it could be your own beliefs that are getting in the way? My guest on this episode put me in the hotseat and demonstrated how my own beliefs were making me feel triggered and annoyed by my own family.
Lana Manikowski is a life coach, specializing in helping childless women rediscover their meaning and build a future they truly love. She endured a 7 year journey through infertility, at the end of which she was presented with the realization that she could not have children. Like many of us, she yearned to connect with a community of women and when she couldn't find one, created Stitch Coaching.
In this episode, you'll discover:
- how your own beliefs about yourself, the people around you and the world may be holding you back
- what those beliefs might be making you feel and how they make you behave
- how Lana's coaching methodology can help you move forward
Shownotes: sherijohnson.ca/63
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62: The Worthy Project with Meadow DeVor
Awakening Worth in Childless Women
04/27/22 • 67 min
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We all struggle, at least a little, with self-worth. We may not realize it (I didn't) or call it that, but we have all felt undervalued at some point. Meadow DeVor has created a formula for understanding self-worth and how to build it, and she lays it all out in her book, the Worthy Project.
On this episode, she shares:
- how over 500K in debt while being a money coach led her to realize that underneath of that debt was a feeling of worthlessness
- the signs that your self-worth could use a boost
- how to let go of the motherhood identity
There are so many gems in this episode. We go deep on the whole motherhood journey, infertility, childlessness, and even the similarities between the mothers and the childless women.
Meadow's book, the Worthy Project is available on Audible and coming out in print on May 11th. Pre-order your copy now!
Show notes: sherijohnson.ca/62
Is your own self-worth holding you back from embracing your childless life?
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Where to find Sheri:
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Website: sherijohnson.ca
61: How to Love Yourself Through Loss with Becky Barber
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04/20/22 • 53 min
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It's not easy for women to love themselves through loss. We're so accustomed to caring for others and shoving our own needs aside that when it comes time for us to support ourselves, we don't feel worthy.
On this episode, Becky Barber, co-creator of the Try Self-Love Podcast, shares her story of 6 pregnancy losses and how having living children doesn't heal the grief that came with her losses. We discuss:
- the shame and guilt that come with pregnancy loss, infertility and childlessness
- how detaching from hope doesn't make it any easier
- how to love yourself through any loss including the loss of an identity, such as "mother" for childless women
Becky is a life and relationship coach who helps women to learn to love and respect themselves despite a damaged relationship with someone they love. Through spirituality, healthy boundary-setting and a continual practice of self-love, Becky was able to break free of her own toxic relationship with her mother and now helps others to do the same.
Beckyalso has a free gift for listeners: Finding a Therapist Who Gets It
You can find a link in the show notes at: sherijohnson.ca/61
Is your own self-worth holding you back from embracing your childless life?
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Love Your Beautiful Unconventional Life Retreat:
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Where to find Sheri:
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Website: sherijohnson.ca
60: Finding a Therapist Who Gets It with Katie Maynard
Awakening Worth in Childless Women
04/13/22 • 47 min
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Katie Maynard is a licensed psychotherapist who has had her own experience with infertility and now childlessness. She's a therapist who "gets it" when it comes to the unique grief and challenges we face as childless women. What a gift as a client when seeking help, to speak with someone who understands.
In our conversation, Katie shares with us:
- the empowerment that is available to us as childless or childfree women
- the most common issues presented in her clinical practice (e.g. how to make the decision to stop trying)
- the benefits of finding a therapist who understands and how to find one
offers a triad of services: working with individual clients, supporting the clinical growth of other therapists, and creating change in the mental health community around the lack of training and competence with childless clients.
Katie also has a free gift for listeners: Finding a Therapist Who Gets It
You can find a link in the show notes at: sherijohnson.ca/60
Is your own self-worth holding you back from embracing your childless life?
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Love Your Beautiful Unconventional Life Retreat:
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Where to find Sheri:
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Website: sherijohnson.ca
59: Healing Through Childlessness by Owning Her Voice with Jobi Tyson
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04/07/22 • 48 min
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Jobi Tyson is one of those women who knows how to rise. She has a heartbreaking story of infertility that ultimately ended with a hysterectomy. But she soon found healing and empowerment by owning her voice.
She started the Tutum Journal and witnessed women beginning by sharing their stories anonymously to now fully stepping into the spotlight without shame.
On this episode, Jobi shares her own story with me plus:
- how she found healing
- how she got started with Tutum Global, a safe space for childless women to share their struggles
- some of the top stories she's come across while editing the Tutum Journal
Show notes at: sherijohnson.ca/59
Is your own self-worth holding you back from embracing your childless life?
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Love Your Beautiful Unconventional Life Retreat:
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Where to find Sheri:
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Website: sherijohnson.ca
58: Embodied Possibilities for Childless Women with Sarah Jane Smith
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03/31/22 • 48 min
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Many childless women feel a deep inner shame and mistrust of their bodies and are unable to show themselves compassion as a result. There's a disconnect between the mind, body and spirit.
Sarah Jane Smith used her embodiment practices to re-establish that trust with her own body after many years of infertility and ultimately a hysterectomy. She had to have compassion for herself as she re-established what she could do with her body and how she identified with it.
In this episode, you'll discover:
- how to reverse the desire to push for performance and how that relates to fertility and the desire to be a mother
- how to use movement to reconnect with your body and allow it to show you what it needs
- why it's so important to meet yourself with kindness and compassion
For Sarah Jane's free gift: How to Re-Establish Trust With Your Body, visit the show notes for this episode at: sherijohnson.ca/58
Is your own self-worth holding you back from embracing your childless life?
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Love Your Beautiful Unconventional Life Retreat:
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Or DM me the word "RETREAT" on Instagram here: @sherijohnsoncoaching
Where to find Sheri:
Instagram: @sherijohnsoncoaching
Website: sherijohnson.ca
52: Childless But Not Infertile with Emily Robbins
Awakening Worth in Childless Women
02/15/22 • 48 min
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Each of us has our own unique path through childlessness. Many have arrived here through infertility or pregnancy loss. But some haven't. Some haven't found a partner. Some couldn't afford to have a child on their own. Or that simply wasn't right for them. There are so many reasons a woman ends up on the childless journey.
For Emily Robbins, it was a combination of circumstances. She wanted children but life didn't turn out that way. She and I had a rich conversation about her unique story and the tools she uses to help heal.
Emily is a youth minister and lover of essential oils. She offers a generous gift to listeners who'd like to learn more. Link in the show notes below.
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50: Birthing a Baby Isn't the Only Kind of Birth That Creates Purpose
Awakening Worth in Childless Women
02/02/22 • 17 min
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Society tells us that women are meant to procreate and having or raising a child is the ultimate purpose in life. While I bought into this belief in my early days as a childless woman, I now believe it's total rubbish. In this episode, I'm going to share with you:
- how women find real purpose
- three types of birth that create purpose (and none of them are related to giving birth to a child)
- how you can find your own purpose
https://sherijohnson.ca/50/
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49: Busy Does Not Equal Worthy
Awakening Worth in Childless Women
01/28/22 • 16 min
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This is my first episode as the Awakening Worth Podcast (formerly the Love & Loss Podcast) and I'm excited about, not just a name change, but a whole new slew of topics focused on belonging, self-worth and living joyfully as childless women.
In this episode, I'm flying solo, sharing 3 secrets for building true worthiness rather than using "busy" as the measuring stick. You'll learn why busy-ness actually sends you into a forever feeling of not-good-enough and how to reframe it all in a way that awakens self-worth instead.
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75: Who Will Take Care of Me When I Get Old? With Jody Day
Awakening Worth in Childless Women
09/11/23 • 72 min
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Jody Day is back for a second episode on the podcast! Our first conversation was so eye-opening for me, I had to have her back after I had actually digested all of what she shared with me.
Jody is often referred to as the founder of the "childless movement" and is the founder of Gateway Women, a global advocacy and support network for childless women. She’s the author of what many professionals consider to be the ‘go-to’ book on the topic, "Living the Life Unexpected: How to Find Hope, Meaning and a Fulfilling Future Without Children" (link below).
Jody was chosen as one of the BBC’s 100 Women in 2013 & a UK Digital Woman of the Year in 2021. She’s a global thought leader on female involuntary childlessness, a psychotherapist, a 2017 and 2022 TEDx speaker, and she’s been an Ambassador for World Childless Week since its inception in 2017.
Jody and I have a deep and eye-opening conversation about ageism and pronatalism in today's society and how they affect childless women's perception of their future. We delve into the fears, challenges, societal and economic impacts associated with aging without children. We explore body image and self-perception through midlife as well as purpose and potential of childless women.
Listen to this episode to discover:
- how childless women can shift their mindset about midlife, ageing and who will take care of them when their old
- a powerful exercise for reconciling connection with your body - something that most women lose as early as their teen years
- the transformational power of community
Where to find Jody:
Website: Gateway-women.com
Instagram: @gatewaywomen
@apprenticecroneJody's Book: Living the Life Unexpected: How to Find Hope, Meaning and a Fulfilling Future Without Children
Where to find Sheri:
Instagram @sherijohnsoncoaching
Website: sherijohnson.ca
Other References in Episode:
Podcast episode: Patriarchy and Pronatalism and Their Impact on Childless Women, with Jody Day
Webinar: Fireside Wisdom with Childless Elder Women (register here)
Book: The Dance of the Dissident Daughter by Sue Monk Kidd
Book: The Baby Matrix by Laura Carroll
Book: The Beauty Myth By Naomi Wolf
Book: The Wisdom of Menopause by Dr. Christiane Northrup
Love Your Beautiful Unconventional Life Retreat:
Click here for details: sherijohnson.ca/retreat
Or DM me the word "RETREAT" on Instagram here: @sherijohnsoncoaching
Where to find Sheri:
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Website: sherijohnson.ca
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How many episodes does Awakening Worth in Childless Women have?
Awakening Worth in Childless Women currently has 121 episodes available.
What topics does Awakening Worth in Childless Women cover?
The podcast is about Health & Fitness, Fertility, Alternative Health, Infertility, Mental Health, Awakening, Miscarriage, Podcasts and Childfree.
What is the most popular episode on Awakening Worth in Childless Women?
The episode title '66: Applying the 5 Stages of Grief to Childlessness' is the most popular.
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The average episode length on Awakening Worth in Childless Women is 34 minutes.
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Episodes of Awakening Worth in Childless Women are typically released every 7 days, 1 hour.
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The first episode of Awakening Worth in Childless Women was released on Jan 23, 2020.
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