Creating my healthy mojo
A healthy mojo? What’s one of them when it’s at home? For years I’ve “joked” that the devastation caused by being childless not by choice caused my mojo to flee to the other side of the moon. However, the joke … Continued
A whole month of steps forward
I can’t believe that I started this blog a whole month ago. OK it’s 30 days to be exact: however, the blogging challenge that I started to coincide with launching The Canbace Diaries with a 30-Day Blogging Challenge and not a … Continued
CREATING our new more social canbace life
I expect like many people in our situation Andrew and I completely retreated into our shells. We accepted fewer and fewer invitations and invited fewer people to spend time “chez nous”. The path to our hermit-like existence was like a … Continued
EXISTENCE can be hard until healing builds momentum
In last week’s “EXISTENCE can be hard” I wrote about healing being like a snowball. It starts off quite small and may take time and persistence to grow any bigger. Then it reaches a “tipping point” and the momentum takes … Continued
Courageous Canbacer Saalumarada Thimmakka
As part of last year’s World Childless Week, I published a guest blog about being “Childless in Indian Communities” for someone who didn’t have a platform of their own. Later in the week we provided a link about a childless … Continued
NEW(s) and Reviews 24th July 2018
There are two items in this week’s New(s) and Reviews both of which are projects close to my heart. I hope you are inspired by them too. NEW(s) and Reviews #1 Many of you will know of Fiona Tate and … Continued
I was wrong to think about IVF with a 10-year-old’s brain
In two day’s time Louise Brown will be celebrating her 40th birthday! Although I was not quite 11 when Louise was born I do remember all the “fuss” about the first IVF baby. Having a sister who was five years … Continued
The snowball nature of healing
Yesterday I left you at the moment of experiencing my first “WOO HOO HOOO I’m going to be a grannie” announcement. I’m going to continue that blog now as I don’t want the ink to dry too much before completing … Continued
EXISTENCE can be hard without snowballs
At the end of last week’s “Existence can be hard” I left you with the thought that there are positive consequences of being caught out by the same snake twice. To keep my promise, this week I’m going to look … Continued
AND now for some guilty pleasure
Regardless of where we are in our Canbace/childless journey we all need a guilty pleasure or five. They help us through the really bad wobbles and at other times are gentle reminders that we can enjoy the life that we … Continued