This article was written for World Childless Week 2026

What does a childless, single woman do in August?

Does she tag along on a friend's family holiday?

Does she send herself off on a yoga retreat?

Does she hike, ramble, climb, kayak or deep sea dive?

Does she do another training course?

Generally, I like to fill the whole month of August with work...

...But this year I’m trying something different: I am exploring what happens when I give myself some space.

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This blog is a contemplation on the inner parts that lead us into old, familiar holes. There are snippets of my own story, an exploration of the parts that like to push me towards the pit of burn-out, and some writing / ponder prompts for you to explore your familiar holes (fnar, fnar!). There’s a classic poem about a hole in a road, and some nuggets of advice from nature, about how to stop falling into holes. At the end, there’s an invitation for you to go out into nature and ask for whatever advice you need. 

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On January 10th 2026, I gave a semi-improvised performance-lecture at the British Association of Dramatherapists’ annual conference in Glasgow. It was my first time performing in public for a very long time. I got a standing ovation. Fancy that! 

This blog charts the process leading up to the performance, offers a glimpse of the performance itself and explores the aftermath and key learnings from this project.

The photos get increasingly random as the blog goes on. Enjoy!

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This is the third part of a 3-part series of blogs, charting my journey through the Glitter Heart performance lab, lovingly held by Liz Clarke and Company and funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, summer 2025. 

This blog follows my progress through the second and final weekend of the Glitter Heart lab. It contains:

• A catch up of what happened since the last weekend

• Three important conversations that shaped my final piece

• Notes from a largely unwitnessed extended improvisation, exploring what happens when I drop the words and express grief through my body (I got stuck in an infinite loop of suffering)

• My descent into the Shame Hole - exploring what led up to this.

• Preparation and notes from my final performance - playing from the Shame Hole.

• Afterthoughts - thoughts on grief, shame, trauma, my parts and how they’ve tried to look after me over the years, healing through creativity.

• My takeaways from the whole project - what happened, what difference it made and what I’m going to take forward.

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This is the second part of a 3-part series of blogs, charting my journey through the Glitter Heart performance lab, lovingly held by Liz Clarke and Company and funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, in summer 2025. 

This blog charts my progress through the first Glitter Heart weekend performance lab. Here’s what’s in the blog:

• A little musing about my journey since my last full-length theatre show in 2017 (a semi-improvised performance-lecture where I embodied many of my inner parts on stage)

• Notes from my first 10 minute solo improvisation at Glitter Heart, where I tried to bring my grief onto the stage.

• Notes from my hour-long improvisation at Glitter Heart, where I continued to explore my grief, with support from my inner cast and a small audience.

• My afterthoughts - the joy of playing, my inner protectors controlling the content, the audience love my critic.

• Some IFS theory - the importance of working at the pace of the protectors.

• A whole bunch of questions around putting grief on stage.

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This is the first part of a 3-part series of blogs, charting my journey through the Glitter Heart performance lab, lovingly  held by Liz Clarke and Company and funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, in summer 2025. 

This blog focuses on our first two evening sessions; 1.) exploring our own performance practices, drawing on inspiration from the Live Art Archives and 2.) an investigation of our relationship with collaboration through discussion and play. 

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On Wednesday 17th September 2025, I presented an online session for World Childless Week. 

The session was called Exploring Childlessness Through Creative Approaches To Internal Family Systems (IFS). 

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I'm going to be presenting a free online IFS workshop at World Childless Week in September! 

I've been attending World Childless Week for the last couple of years and have found it to be a big support on my journey to coming to terms with being childless, not by choice. Listening to other childless people tell their stories has helped me feel less alone. 

This year, I wanted to join the conversation, offering some of the tools and techniques that have been helping me.

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Hello readers. I am delighted to announce that after three years of wandering in the wilderness, I have officially moved back to Bristol!  

For those of you who haven’t been following my blog, welcome! For the last three years, I have been on a pilgrimage, trying to figure out where to put this particular version of me. Was it a spiritual quest? Was it an extended social experiment? Or was it a trauma response? This blog explores some of the driving forces behind my three year odyssey. 

If you’ve ever found yourself doing strange repetitive things that feel comforting at the time but eventually spiral into compulsion, then this blog is for you. If you’re curious to find out why anyone would get into that sort of thing, then this blog is for you too.

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This blog explores the pain of polarization (an IFS term describing when two or more parts have conflicting ideas about how to keep us safe) and paradox. We’ll be meeting some of the internal parts who have been involved in my decision-making about trying to find a place to live. We’ll be zooming in on the parts that don’t want me to settle down and exploring the impact they’ve been having on my system and my life. I’ve included a bit of backstory for those who are new to the blog (Welcome!). I hope you enjoy travelling with me, deep into my psyche and I hope my reflections support you with yours.

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