Explore every episode of the podcast Awakening Worth in Childless Women
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| 121: The Keys to Responding to "You're So Lucky You Don't Have Kids" | 19 Aug 2024 | 00:27:01 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! This might be one of the most "triggering" remarks that parents make to people who don't have kids. If you wanted kids, you sure don't feel very lucky, right? In fact, you might feel pretty unlucky.
If you are someone who wants to be prepared for ALL the insensitive remarks and questions - whatever comes your way - send me a DM to @sherijohnsoncoaching with the words "episode 121" and I'll show you what you can do next. Where to find Sheri: | |||
| 120: Do You Have Kids? How to Respond with Grace | 12 Aug 2024 | 00:31:17 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! So many childless and childfree women hate this question. A simple "no" answer often leads to awkward silences or the other party trying to back track or fill the space. But what if you could answer this question with ease and grace and both you and the person asking the question could walk away from the conversation feeling good?
If you want to find out how to answer ALL the insensitive questions and remarks about women without kids, send me a DM at @sherijohnsoncoaching with the words "episode 120" and I'll give you the next steps! Where to find Sheri: | |||
| 111: Purpose is Not Something You Find (Part 2) | 11 Jun 2024 | 00:32:17 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! Download your free guide to Finding Purpose Beyond Parenthood: Getting Through Grief and Triggers to a Life of Meaning and Joy!
If you are an action taker and want to discover more about how to live your purpose-filled life, download my free PDF guide, Finding Purpose Beyond Parenthood: Getting Through Grief and Triggers to a Life of Meaning and Joy! Where to find Sheri: | |||
| 21: 3 Secrets I've Been Afraid to Tell You 5 Years After My Miscarriages | 07 Jul 2020 | 00:12:25 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! My last miscarriage was 5 years ago. 3 years later, I shifted my business toward helping women recover emotionally and spiritually from grief following a miscarriage. Since then, I've been holding in a few secrets. I was afraid of what you'd think if you knew these secrets. But in this episode, I'm opening up my heart and sharing all.
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| 20: The #1 Belief That is Stalling Your Emotional Healing After a Miscarriage | 30 Jun 2020 | 00:13:34 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! After I had my first miscarriage, I didn't join a support group. I didn't look for online resources for navigating grief after a miscarriage. I didn't go to therapy, at least not right away and not because I thought I needed help recovering from my miscarriage. I did nothing to try to help myself heal. Where to find Sheri: | |||
| 19: 4 Emotions Your Partner is Feeling After Your Miscarriage | 17 Jun 2020 | 00:17:10 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! One of the complaints I here most often after a miscarriage is how challenging it is to keep your relationship together. It might feel like your partner is moving forward more quickly than you after your miscarriage. Or at least grieving very differently. And it can lead to misunderstandings and resentment. Where to find Sheri: | |||
| 18: 3 Simple Strategies for Emotional Healing After a Miscarriage with Cassie Vesey-Wells | 10 Jun 2020 | 00:49:52 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! Cassie Vesey-Wells, shares some expert advice with us this episode. She's a trained counsellor with a practice focused on fertility, grief and loss. Cassie starts by sharing her own story and experience with 3 miscarriages, which I know you are going to resonate with. She then shares the simplest of simple strategies for emotional healing that have helped her and her clients. These strategies are so easy, you’ll wonder why you haven’t been doing them already! Where to find Sheri: | |||
| 17: 7 Steps to Healing Any Emotional Trigger After a Miscarriage | 03 Jun 2020 | 00:31:01 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! Do you have emotional triggers that keep you feeling angry or hurt by friends or family? Of course! We all have them after a miscarriage. Where to find Sheri: | |||
| 16: 6 Myths that Prevent Healing from Miscarriage | 27 May 2020 | 01:03:31 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! Society tells us all kinds of things about how best to heal from miscarriage. Many of them are myths and don't actually help at all. Where to find Sheri: | |||
| 15: Four Miraculous Tools for Healing From Miscarriage | 20 May 2020 | 00:32:36 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! I share with you my absolute best tools for healing after a miscarriage or infertility in this episode. I call them miraculous because they really are. They changed my entire life. And drastically. After my first miscarriage, I had no idea how to heal emotionally from my loss. I did what I'd heard others say to do: keep busy, get back to work, avoid talking about it. And none of that worked. I believe that I simply learned to adjust to the empty feeling inside of me. I didn't actually heal from it. I want you to heal. Once I learned the tools that would help me heal, I used them voraciously. And they worked. They still work. I use them all the time, whenever I feel a trigger, whether it stems from my losses or from something else. Where to find Sheri: | |||
| 14: The Story of My Second Miscarriage | 13 May 2020 | 00:23:15 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! In this episode, I tell the story of my second miscarriage, which was entirely different from my first, physically and emotionally. Each one came with its own emotions, its own lessons, its own grief. If you've had a miscarriage, you'll definitely be able to relate as I tell the story of how it all went down. I'll share the lessons I learned along the way too so that you might learn from them as well. Where to find Sheri: | |||
| 13: How to Get Through Mother's Day After a Loss | 05 May 2020 | 00:15:38 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! Mother's Day has gotta be one of the hardest days of the year if you've had a miscarriage or if you're struggling with infertility. It certainly is for me. Where to find Sheri: | |||
| 12: When It's Too Soon to Go Back to Work After a Miscarriage | 29 Apr 2020 | 00:21:56 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! Find out how to know when it's too soon to go back to work. Most women go back too early and there's a good reason why. I'm going to share those reasons with you, as well as the reasons you shouldn't go back too soon. Where to find Sheri: | |||
| 110: Purpose is Not Something You Find (Part 1) | 02 Jun 2024 | 00:27:50 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! Download your free guide to Finding Purpose Beyond Parenthood: Getting Through Grief and Triggers to a Life of Meaning and Joy! Where to find Sheri: | |||
| 11: My Miscarriage Story #1 | 22 Apr 2020 | 00:19:49 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! If you've had a miscarriage, you'll know that it's a lonely experience. But it can be so healing to hear someone else's story. A story a bit like your own. With the same struggles, the same heart break. Where to find Sheri: | |||
| 10: 10 Things I Wish I Knew When I Miscarried | 15 Apr 2020 | 00:22:48 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! I was so naive when I had my first miscarriage and I received no guidance from the doctors or nurses who treated me, from friends and family. From anyone. I had to navigate through my miscarriage, and the grief afterwards, alone. Then I made my way through a second miscarriage, and then a third. And by the end of all of that, I had learned a thing a two. All things that would have helped had I known them from the beginning. I want to share them with you, in case you are just starting your own journey with loss. Where to find Sheri: | |||
| 9: You're not alone if you're feeling these 5 emotions after a miscarriage | 08 Apr 2020 | 00:13:49 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! We all expect to feel a deep, deep sadness after a miscarriage. We've seen other people go through grief and we've watched them experience that sadness. But have you noticed that you feel all kinds of other emotions besides sadness? I sure did after my 3 miscarriages. Jealousy, emptiness, numbness, anger...the list goes on. Grief isn't an emotion itself, it's a process that encompasses many emotions. Where to find Sheri: | |||
| 8: Fertility treatment postponed? Do these 5 things while you wait. | 01 Apr 2020 | 00:15:39 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! It feels a bit like we've lost sight of everyone's problems in the world except for the massive one that no one can stop talking about. COVID19 is kind of all-consuming and I think it's left a lot of people in the lurch. People like you. Women who are on a fertility journey and now have to wait even longer for a treatment. Women whose biological clock is ticking and they just want to get moving. Women who've had their dreams crushed in one fell swoop. But you don't have to just sit back and wait. Why not take control over what you can? Right now. Where to find Sheri: | |||
| 7: Keeping Busy Won't Make Grief Go Away | 27 Mar 2020 | 00:14:53 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! Why do we think staying busy will help us feel better after a miscarriage? Think about it. It might take your mind off your grief for a brief period of time, but it just resurfaces, and sometimes at the worst possible moments. Where to find Sheri: | |||
| 6: You CAN Improve Your Health During a Pandemic | 18 Mar 2020 | 00:14:58 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! Most of what we've heard during these crazy times is fear and negativity. But there are actually ways that you can take advantage of the quarantines and isolation and allow your body, mind and spirit to heal. You might even give your fertility a boost or prepare your body for your next pregnancy. Have a listen to find out how. Where to find Sheri: | |||
| 5: What To Do When You're Asked, "When Are You Having Kids?" | 27 Feb 2020 | 00:13:07 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! Questions like, "so when are you having kids?" can bring up a lot of anger in someone who's struggling with infertility or has just had a miscarriage. I know it does. I see a ton of posts about it on social media and I hear about it from my clients. But what if I told you that there's a way to feel comfortable with these types of questions? That you could answer them with ease and grace and not get angry? Have a listen to this episode to find out how. Where to find Sheri: | |||
| 4: Stuck in a Decision? Here's How to Move Forward | 19 Feb 2020 | 00:13:09 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! After a miscarriage or while on a fertility journey, there are so many decisions to make. It can get overwhelming and impossible to figure out the direction to go. You get "stuck". Paralyzed. And can't move forward. Here's how to change that. Where to find Sheri: | |||
| 3: 6 Tips For Keeping Your Relationship In Tact After a Miscarriage | 13 Feb 2020 | 00:14:28 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! Your marriage or partnership can take a beating after a miscarriage or a period of infertility. Use these 6 tips to make sure your relationship stays rock solid through tumultuous times. Where to find Sheri: | |||
| 2: How to Make Peace With Your Body When it Feels Broken | 06 Feb 2020 | 00:07:36 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! When you've been through a miscarriage or months of infertility, your body starts to feel broken. Listen to this episode to find out how to release frustration towards your body, or your female body parts, so it can heal and you can move on to your next pregnancy. Where to find Sheri: | |||
| 109: The Unsung Sisterhood of Women Without Kids, With Ruby Warrington | 26 May 2024 | 01:06:43 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! It is so clear to me that Ruby Warrington is a thought leader in the childfree/childless space! She has authored, Women Without Kids: The Revolutionary Rise of an Unsung Sisterhood, and in my view, the whole book was revolutionary. She discusses concepts that were swirling around vaguely in my head and my mind was blown when I saw them so well articulated on the pages of her book. Where to find Sheri: | |||
| 1: Let Go of Guilt After Miscarriage or Infertility | 23 Jan 2020 | 00:13:30 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! Many women feel a sense of guilt after a miscarriage or prolonged infertility. As though they might have been able to prevent the loss or improved their chances of having a baby somehow. Perhaps if they'd done something differently, things would have been better. I felt this way too. Listen to this episode to find out how to let it go. Where to find Sheri: | |||
| 108: The Hidden Things You Didn't Know You Were Grieving | 17 May 2024 | 00:30:23 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! Many childless people don't even realize they are grieving. Who would have known you can grieve the loss of an imagined future? What I find is that many women without kids, even those who choose not to have them, feel some sort of grief and it's not always the loss of that future. Identifying what specifically you're grieving is key to processing it. Where to find Sheri: | |||
| 107: 5 Steps for Navigating Mother's Day as a Childless Woman | 10 May 2024 | 00:30:24 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! These are 5 steps you haven't heard before. You've probably heard people talk about staying off social media and opting out of Mother's Day emails. Maybe doing something nice for yourself and saying "no" to the celebrations. These are all valid things you can do to avoid feeling the pain of Mother's Day as a childless woman who wanted to be a mother. Where to find Sheri: | |||
| 106: The Wisdom of Aging As a Childless Woman | 05 May 2024 | 00:18:55 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! Menopause is a huge transformational time for women and another topic that we don’t talk about enough. Women may joke about their memory, or hot flashes or complain about heavy periods. But they don’t talk about the deep stuff. The vulnerable stuff. Or the scary stuff. There is SO much going on for women during perimenopause and midlife, and childless women experience it, quite often, right alongside trying to start a family before it’s too late. That, to me, adds a whole other element.
DM me "AGING" on Instagram @sherijohnsoncoaching if you are ready to let go of societal norms so you can love your childless midlife. Where to find Sheri: | |||
| 105: Unleashing Your Inner Rebel | 30 Apr 2024 | 00:27:26 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! It's hard to fit in when you are in the minority. Childless women over 40 make up roughly 20% of the population (depending on what country you live in). Sometimes I wonder how many of them are living in the larger cities because it sure feels like everyone around me in my little town are parents.
If you want to take one step towards your best life, download my free PDF guide to Create Your Best Year, Even Without Kids. Where to find Sheri: | |||
| 104: What If NOT Having Children Was the Norm in Society? | 21 Apr 2024 | 00:19:22 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! In our current society, women without kids make up anywhere between 15 and 25% of the adult female population, depending on the country. Recently, I started to wonder what life would look like - what grief would look like - if that were reversed.
It's this kind of reality that I'm creating inside the Women of Worth group immersion. A place where childless women feel a sense of belonging, meaningful connection, an open space to create their best lives, even without kids. Where to find Sheri: | |||
| 103: What To Do When Your People Just Don't Get It | 14 Apr 2024 | 00:38:19 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! Have you ever come away from a conversation thinking "gosh, "people just don't get it"? Either they say something insensitive or simply can't empathize with your childless circumstances.
DM me or email me the word "empathy" if you're ready to find true connection and empathy within a community that understands you. Where to find Sheri: | |||
| 102: Navigating Anger as a Childless Woman | 07 Apr 2024 | 00:28:24 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! Anger is an emotion that comes up a lot with my childless clients who wanted kids. Anger can be a really complicated emotion because it's not only an emotion in and of itself, but it can also disguise other emotions.
If you are ready to let go of anger so you can feel at peace with your path, send me a DM on Instagram or an email at sheri@sherijohnson.ca with the word "anger". Where to find Sheri: | |||
| 119: How To Shift Your Reaction to "Miserable Childless Cat Ladies" | 04 Aug 2024 | 00:28:31 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! If you are anything like me, you're probably tired of hearing about JD Vance and the comments he made publicly about childless women being miserable cat ladies and having no stake in America's future.
If you're ready to take take a more empowering stance when it comes to insensitive comments and questions and find out how to let these triggers roll off your back, send me a DM on Instagram to @sherijohnsoncoaching with the word “powerful”. I’ll give you the steps on how to do it. Where to find Sheri: | |||
| 101: How Childless Women Will Change the World | 31 Mar 2024 | 00:27:18 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! As I embark on the next 100 episodes on the Awakening Worth Podcast, I spend this session reflecting on the deeper reason I keep hitting record and why you should keep hitting the play button.
What if we, the childless women, are the ones who can break down and break free of this centuries old ideology? What if it's us, who can lead the transformation of our society and deeply impact the lives of not just other childless women, but women in general? Where to find Sheri: | |||
| 100: From the Partner's Perspective, with Mike Johnson (my hubby) | 08 Mar 2024 | 00:43:58 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! Celebrating 100 episodes today! My husband, Mike Johnson, and I mark this special occasion together on the podcast with a conversation that makes its way through life without children from HIS perspective. As we share the narrative of our journey, from the heartbreak of miscarriage to the multitude of decisions along the fertility treatment path, we peel back the layers of our different perspectives. Where to find Sheri: | |||
| 99: Why You Need Energetic Womb Healing, with Dr. Jennifer Reimer | 26 Feb 2024 | 01:04:23 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! The moment I sat in quiet meditation with an energy healer, I never anticipated the floodgates of emotional pain that would open from my womb space. That pivotal encounter ignited a journey into womb healing, leading me to create womb healing retreats that help women to release emotions stored in the womb space.
This one is more than just a conversation; it's an invitation to transform your deepest wounds into unparalleled strength. Where to find Sheri: | |||
| 98: What We REALLY Need to Be Talking About on International Women's Day | 22 Feb 2024 | 00:27:55 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! This episode is a bit controversial. I think there's this an expectation that if you are a woman, you are onboard with everything International Women's Day stands for. But I'm not known for just getting on board with something simply because of an expectation. Do I want women to rise? Yes. Do I want there to be equitable pay in the workforce? Yes. Do I want to see more women at the top? Absolutely!
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| 97: Challenging Pronatalism's Effect on Purpose and Fulfillment | 16 Feb 2024 | 00:28:12 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! I'm doing a solo episode today and pulling back the curtain on pronatalism even further. In this episode, I will peel away the layers of this pervasive belief system, examining how it shapes the sense of purpose and self-worth in those of us without children. By uncovering historical and contemporary pressures from society, government, and religion, we pave the way for acceptance and a redefined sense of meaning and purpose beyond traditional expectations.
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| 96: Childlessness and the Transformation of Our Species, with Maria Hill | 08 Feb 2024 | 00:56:50 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! As a leader in the childless space, Maria Hill brings a ton of wisdom to this episode. Her story of parental and societal expectations as a woman growing up in the 60's shed so much light on what we are going through now as childless women.
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| 95: Leaving a Legacy is Not As Important As You've Been Led to Believe | 05 Feb 2024 | 00:21:10 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! Legacy. It's a word I hear a lot in the childless community. What kind of legacy will I leave now that I'm not having kids? As though having kids is the only way to leave a legacy.
To get Sheri's FREE guide to Create Your Best Life Even Without Kids, click here. Where to find Sheri: | |||
| 94: 3 Keys to Overcoming Regret and Fear of Regret on the Childless Path | 29 Jan 2024 | 00:25:55 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! A feeling of regret and fear of future regret are two things I hear so many childless women talk about. We regret decisions and choices we made in the past that have led to our current circumstances. We also are afraid to make decisions in the present because we might regret them later.
It's entirely possible to step into peace and acceptance of your path without feelings of regret. If you want that, send me a DM on Instagram with the words "ep 94" and I'll show you how. Instagram: @sherijohnsoncoaching Where to find Sheri: | |||
| 93: This is Why I Didn't "Just Adopt" | 23 Jan 2024 | 00:36:13 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! Embarking on the path of adoption or deciding against it—either one is a journey laden with emotion and complexity. Today, I open my heart to you in a candid narrative of my own experiences with the profound choice of not adopting.
If you're struggling with the tangle of societal expectations, judgment, fears and your own true desires that keep people from making a decision, DM me "ep 93" on Instagram and I'll guide you through it. Instagram: @sherijohnsoncoaching Where to find Sheri: | |||
| 92: How to Turn Grief Into Growth, With Kirsten Frey | 12 Jan 2024 | 00:53:23 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! I continue to be enlightened and inspired by my good friend, Kirsten Frey. She returns for a second time on this episode to share her expertise on recovering from grief and opens us up to the multitude of different kinds of loss.
Kirsten Frey is a Transitional Life Coach, Advanced Grief Recovery Specialist and Reiki Guide. Instagram: @sherijohnsoncoaching
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| 118: 7 Signs You Might Need a Mindset Tweak | 28 Jul 2024 | 00:24:10 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! If you want to be able to answer questions like “do you have kids” with authenticity instead of awkwardness, you must shift your mindset. It's not enough to just rehearse how you'll respond. And if you're anything like I used to be, what you're rehearsing might feel more defensive and hurt than empowering. Where to find Sheri: | |||
| 91: 5 Obstacles Keeping You From a Joyful 2024 | 08 Jan 2024 | 00:21:32 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! I used to start every year during my pursuit of motherhood thinking, "this is going to be my year". And it never was. Once I came to terms that my future was going to be childless, it started to look pretty dismal. And yet, I wanted to feel optimistic about the year ahead. What I didn't realize was that I had some obstacles in my way that needed breaking down. Consciously.
Join me, and let's step into 2024 with courage, grace, and the freedom to craft a life of meaning, motherhood aside. Instagram: @sherijohnsoncoaching Kate Northrup's Plenty podcast, Episode 17: How to Increase your Capacity to Receive Love Where to find Sheri: | |||
| 90: Special Holiday Gift, Raise Your Vibration Meditation | 22 Dec 2023 | 00:24:24 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! It's 3 days before Christmas as I record this special episode. This is not my usual all-talk episode or guest interview. Today, in this heartfelt episode, I'll guide you through a visualization exercise that promises to lift your spirits and shift your emotional state towards love and joy. Instagram: @sherijohnsoncoaching Where to find Sheri: | |||
| 89: Feeling Like You Don't Belong as a Childless Woman is Not Grief | 18 Dec 2023 | 00:28:38 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! It's pretty normal to feel like you don't belong when you're a childless woman. We grow up thinking that eventually, we'll belong to the mom club. And then it leaves us with a pretty big feeling of exclusion when we don't get to join.
If you are ready to start taking action toward developing your own sense of belonging, DM me "ep 89" and I'll share how you can take this deeper! Instagram: @sherijohnsoncoaching References from this Episode: Work by Dr. Kelly-Ann Allen : Making Sense of Belonging Where to find Sheri: | |||
| 88: Behind the Scenes of a Happy Childless Holiday | 12 Dec 2023 | 00:30:41 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! When we want something, it's not actually that thing that we want. It's the feeling that we imagine we'll have when we have the thing. When I wrapped my head around this concept, I could use it to determine exactly what I wanted to feel and how to bring those positive emotions into the holidays.
If you want to find out more about how you can find Meaning Beyond Motherhood, DM me "focus group" to join my free focus group for childless women. Where to find Sheri: Instagram: @sherijohnsoncoaching References from this Episode: Where to find Sheri: | |||
| 87: How to Let Go of Being Pitied as a Childless Woman | 04 Dec 2023 | 00:23:06 | |
Send me a text and tell me what you're struggling with the most! No one likes to be pitied. And childless women who wanted kids are no different. I certainly don't like it and I did feel as though people pitied me when I first began to accept that I would never be a mom. But when my clients started asking how to get past pity, I realized that I didn't feel it at all anymore and had to really dig into how I shifted my perception. Because the people around me certainly haven't changed. I did.On this episode, you're going to find out:
If you are the latter, head over to Instagram and send me a DM at @sherijohnsoncoaching with the words “ep. 87” . I’ll give you the step by step. Where to find Sheri: Instagram: @sherijohnsoncoaching Website: sherijohnson.ca References from this episode: Atlas of the Heart by Brene Brown Where to find Sheri: | |||