Childlessness & Regret
10 Session Group Program
FINDING PEACE
Feb/March to Apr/May 2025
Needs a quick overview of the program here.
Expression of interest is now open to receive information and go on the waiting list for applications starting
Very much looking forward to sharing this life-changing group experience with you.
Warmly,
Sarah Roberts
Women who decide not to have children are often told “you’ll regret it!”.
This can be an invalidating comment for women who are childfree-by-choice.
The truth is that most women who choose not to have children don’t regret it. (Jeffries & Konnert 2002)
But regret can look very different for us when we’re childless-not-by-choice
We may carry many regrets about the journey through our “fertile years”,
(assuming we were fertile, many of us weren’t and some of us will never know).
We can carry regrets about –
the decisions we made or didn’t make;
the actions we took or didn’t take;
the relationships we lost or that didn’t arrive,
the circumstances which impacted our agency and choices
an many more.
The heavy burden of grief and regret can find us in a difficult relationship with our past, present and future, with others and even ourselves.
Involuntary childlessness can even impact our relationship with life itself.
The Childlessness & Regret Group Program supports us to explore the way involuntary childlessness and regret may have impacted and helps uncover pathways toward healing, possibility, transformation and renewal.
Our experience of regret might involve a lot of tenderness or even anger.
We might be in a social or cultural context that renders us invisible, de-values us and our stories, and stigmatises and shames us.
This disenfranchised experience can make it more difficult to process our experiences and live well. We might be blaming ourselves for our childlessness and struggling with the unfairness of it.
We might be living with a critical inner voice that amplifies this self-blame.
We can feel a sense of unworthiness, stigma or shame about our regrets.
We can feel a stuck place where we haven’t made peace with ourselves and our past, and struggle to expand into a living present and a confident future.
We might struggle to stand in a place of confidence and empowerment as we take responsibility for our past and learn from our mistakes.
Spending time and sharing our experiences with other childless women can be an incredible balm to our tender hearts and precious souls.
This group program offers an opportunity to come to together in a precious connecting space with other childless women who are seeking to make peace with their regrets.
Together we will explore our regrets, seek a gentler and kinder relationship with ourselves and work towards feeling more confident and capable of navigating our futures.
The Childlessness & Regret Group Program
developed from decades of lived experience, clinical counselling and academic inquiry about women’s grief and transition to permanent involuntary childlessness and our flourishing as older childless women.
This is 10 session group program (including break week) covers some really precious terrain, including:
Together, we will explore ways to support us, and each other in our communities, as we move forward with greater confidence in our futures.
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GROUP Early Bird
Start date
February/March 2025
a powerful, transformative and meaningful program
The Childlessness & Regret Group Program is not individual or group counselling, therapy or mental health care, yet it is a powerful, transformative and meaningful program.
Participating in this group program does entail some risk and vulnerability, so it has been developed using trauma and grief informed group processes, to create a safer, connecting group experience.
We feel truly honoured to be part of the big hearted and generous connecting spaces co-created by the women in these groups.
During the onboarding process, we will connect with you individually to see how you are travelling with your childlessness experience and whether this program is a good fit for you right now.
If it isn’t, it doesn’t mean that it won’t be in the future.
Your care and what will support you right now is our primary focus.
If you’d like to connect with other childless women who seek to heal, make peace with their past and present, and live loving, joyful and peaceful futures, come join us.
If this sounds like you, apply below and we’ll be in touch with you soon.
Sarah Roberts
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