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In this week’s episode, I’m talking to the wonderful Nanette Riendeau.

Nanette is a psychotherapist living in Illinois, US. She is married, but spent several years as a single woman having married relatively late in life. She is childfree by circumstance and shares this aspect of her life on her Instagram page @childlessgrace.

Topics that Nanette & I cover are:

• how Nanette is passionate about helping other childless women;
• the relationship that Nanette thought would result in children, but subsequently ended;
• what she learnt through her master’s degree in Women’s Spirituality;
• how desperately she wanted to grow and birth a baby, as well as be a mother;
• Nanette’s journey of self-discovery and personal growth during her single years from age 37 to 44;
• the ‘secret’ that women actually get better with age;
• how Nanette felt it was the pandemic that finally closed the door on her having a baby;
• her advice for those women who are grieving not having children;
• knowing that you are the observer of your thoughts, not your thoughts themselves;
• how we always romanticise the paths in life that we didn’t take;
• how cultivating our relationship with ourselves is one of the most important things;
• social media, and the concept of ‘likes’;
• how so many people don’t ask us about our lives if they don’t involve partners and kids;
• the damaging narrative that you 'haven’t been chosen’ if you’re single;
• the importance of understanding that our worth is inherent;
• the awesomeness of Taylor Swift.

Follow Nanette on Instagram:
@childlessgrace

Check out Nanette’s coaching website:
https://coachingwithnanette.com/ 

Check out Nanette’s therapy website:
https://therapywithnanette.com/ 

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