Choosing a Childfree Life
Isabel Firecracker helps courageous childfree women who want to heal the insecurities or anger surrounding their choice to not have children by providing personalized coaching services so they can thrive and light up the world.
Visit her website here:
https://www.theuprisingspark.com/
Show Notes:
0:40 IG @theuprisingspark
1:40 Isabel’s introduction
@thehonestuproar2:48 “I love kids actually, I just don’t want to have any of my own.”
3:09 “When you ‘come out’ as childfree it’s very normal to have feelings of shame, or anger, or guilt around your choice… I work with women through these feelings and get them to the other side where they can light up their fire”
6:17 “We speak very openly about not wanting children and being pro-choice”
6:50 Some people take it very “that we don’t want to have kids”
7:50 Shame, anger, guilt, regret are a part of the human experience
9:33 “Most of these feelings are very very linked to either religious beliefs or cultural beliefs”
9:51 “Even though they know they don’t want to have children, they have to go through the whole process of grieving the abortion”
12:08 “Childfree Bingo” “We get bingoed all the time” “frequent reminder that we aren’t fitting in somehow”
13:08 “There are people who are still very attached to the nuclear family, and we are challenging that”
13:30 “We’re not included in many things”
Tax considerations
16:27 “We’re not being seen in many ways”
16:32 In developed countries 1 in 4 women will not have children by 2025 “we’re leaving legacies behind”
History of childfree women
20:53 Tracing birth control back to B.C.
21:35 Became more visible in the Feminist Revolution
22:02 Handmaid’s Tale, Harlots
23:41 The history of women has created a situation in which we have to catch up, we’ve been carrying burden
25:30 “So many people that don’t know that having children is a choice… as a child you are groomed to have children”
27:11 We’re conditioned to not think that way
28:53 “You’re not alone”
31:48 Make your decisions for you!
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