About unRipe - Learning to Embrace the Childless Life
A podcast for women (and even men) with an honest voice about the realities of living without children. It is my mission to provide a platform for this global group, to create a supportive environment & community for the Childless and Childfree to share our stories and experiences.(un)Ripe is a vibrant, supportive community hosted by me, Jo Vraca. Each fortnight, I speak with women and men, counsellors, spinsters, hypnotherapists, journalists, authors, women who are in the middle of grief, or who have come through it and are living unexpectedly fabulous lives.I'll help you share your story so we can build advocacy, and find our purpose and meaning when it is not defined by for us through the role of motherhood. I'm on a mission! Join me, as I look to our past, our present and our futures with a global array of special guests so we can change the narrative about childless and childfree life and embrace our lives without children.
What's your Plan B? How do we find our life purpose now? Natural Practitioner, Anne Barratt tells us.
When your Plan A doesn't go as planned, what's your Plan B? What does our future hold without children? Can we Google the answer? What about Jeeves?
We speak to Anne Barratt from Empowering Health about her story after IVF and a hysterectomy. Anne is a professional practitioner who employs kinesiology, EFT, counselling, hypnotherapy and a host of different modalities to help reset our minds and bodies to focus clearly on what we want for our future.
Stats: Our elder community tell us how their lives have turned out without children.
In Shit that comes up on our Feed, my guest co-host has a beef with the way women introduce themselves in a business Facebook group.
Question of the Week: What is your Plan B? What are you going to do in the future? Even if it's your Plan A!
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List of resources and articles we referenced in the episode:
Anne Barratt @ Empowering Health: http://www.empoweringhealth.clinic/anne-barratt/ (http://www.empoweringhealth.clinic/anne-barratt/)
Our elders talk about life without children: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/reader-center/no-kids-no-regrets.html
https://www.abc.net.au/life/women-share-what-its-like-to-live-childfree-and-with-no-regrets/11223972 (https://www.abc.net.au/life/women-share-what-its-like-to-live-childfree-and-with-no-regrets/11223972)
Childless women in Gambia are revered for their role as messengers: https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/beyond-the-egg-timer/201501/childless-circumstances (https://www.psychologytoday.com/au/blog/beyond-the-egg-timer/201501/childless-circumstances)
Judy Graham @ Womanhood – https://www.womenhood.com.au/ (https://www.womenhood.com.au/)
World Childless Week Elders webinar: https://worldchildlessweek.net/ageing-without-children-2020 (https://worldchildlessweek.net/ageing-without-children-2020)
Jody Day: Living the Life Unexpected - 12 Weeks to Your Plan B for a Meaningful and Fulfilling Future Without Children (https://www.booktopia.com.au/living-the-life-unexpected-jody-day/book/9781529036138.html)
Volunteer:
Australia - https://www.volunteeringaustralia.org/ (https://www.volunteeringaustralia.org/#/)
New Zealand - https://www.newzealand.com/au/feature/volunteering-in-new-zealand/ (https://www.newzealand.com/au/feature/volunteering-in-new-zealand/)
Happy Feed Gratitude App: https://www.happyfeed.co (https://www.happyfeed.co)
9 Jul 2022
World Childless Week the Annual Event for us, by Stephanie Phillips!
In our first mini episode we talk to World Childless Week founder Stephanie Phillips.
World Childless Week 2020 is a virtual event held online through this website and on social media channels from September 14-20.
To find out more about World Childless Week: www.worldchildlessweek.net/ (https://worldchildlessweek.net/)
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WorldChildlessWeek (https://www.facebook.com/WorldChildlessWeek)
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Sound engineering and original music by Jeff Willis. You can find his tunes on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/artist/3o48Ilso8SU6VQvIdWKDV3?si=UfgDxllLRAqJ6iv78qIwgw) and iTunes (https://music.apple.com/au/album/for-lease/1490905380)
9 Jul 2022
What's this childless grief about? Childless counsellor, Sarah Roberts, tells us.
Today I welcome Sarah Roberts to the podcast.
We talk about grief and second chances! Sarah is not only a counsellor for childless women, she’s one of us! With over 25 years experience in counselling, teaching and community work, Sarah brings her lived experience to The Empty Cradle where she focuses on involuntary childlessness and motherhood loss. She understands the complexities of supporting women who experience involuntary childlessness.
As the founder of The Empty Cradle, Sarah aims to bring women together in loving community to mourn the loss, be transformed by the grief and create a life they love.
The Empty Cradle is a place where mourning, complexity, hope, spirituality, ambition and lifestyle collide. She offers rock solid strategies (think: psychology, counselling, feminism, education, sociology, practical philosophy and spiritual practices) to clarify decision-making about your journey, grieve your loss and move forward with confidence about the future.
Sarah believes that grief is a skill to be learned: it deepens your ability to live and love and it awakens your whole being. And being childless herself, she gets us, and to a grieving woman, it makes all the difference. So while our conversation focuses on the losses for childless women, she brings us back around to the joy we can find once we allow it.
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Resources and articles referenced in the episode:
Dr Leslie Cannold "What, No Baby?" and "The Abortion Myth": https://www.cannold.com/ (https://www.cannold.com/)
Brene Brown: https://brenebrown.com/ (https://brenebrown.com/)
Stephen Jenkinson "Come of Age: The Case for Elderhood in a Time of Trouble" on Amazon (https://www.amazon.com/Come-Age-Case-Elderhood-Trouble/dp/1623172098)
Sound engineering and original music by Jeff Willis. You can find his tunes on Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/artist/3o48Ilso8SU6VQvIdWKDV3?si=UfgDxllLRAqJ6iv78qIwgw) and iTunes (https://music.apple.com/au/album/for-lease/1490905380)
Produced by Jo Vraca
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