We throw the term "Happy endings" around as if it were a real thing and not some arbitrary line in the sand. In this episode we explore and challenge the idea of a 'happy ending' and where happiness really comes from.

Our guest Bec Sheffield talks us through the confusion she felt and what brought her peace in her decision not to have children. Whether you want children and haven't had them, have decided you don't want them or are still trying to decide, this beautiful episode has something that will speak to the heart of you.

The things people say can seem hurtful, thoughtless or inconsiderate when we're feeling vulnerable about the fact that we don't have children. In this episode, we take a look at what's really going on when we're feeling upset by the things people say, and how we can free ourselves from needing people to be or behave differently in order to spare our feelings.

"What's my purpose, if I'm not going to have children?" This is what we call a 'rabbit-hole question' - one that sends us off searching outside for an answer that will be definition be unstable and actually, untrue. Join us as we explore the myth of purpose and a much more helpful way of understanding and exploring this adventure we call life.

Once you see regret for what it is, it doesn't really make sense any more. In this episode we unpick regret in the context of life without children, and show how it can dissolve in an instant when you recognise it for what it is.

Instead of 'hints and tips for surviving the festive season without children', we're going somewhere far more helpful - a conversation that just might change your experience of all family celebrations from now on.

When we wanted children and couldn't have them, or haven't had them yet, we can find ourselves labelled - or we can give ourselves labels - to describe our experience. In this episode we explore what labels are good for and what they're not, and how labels can fall away once we get a sense of who and what we really are, beyond the labels.

Vivienne interviews Laura about her experience with infertility and finding an unprecedented level of peace through understanding how experience works and where her feelings were -and are - coming from.

Vivienne shares the key insights that threw her out of the 'tumble-drier' of anxiety and desperately trying to find answers to being happy without children, and brought her peace and a life she loves.

In this introductory episode, we talk about what we'd like this podcast to offer - what we want to bring to people who may be trying to 'come to peace' with the idea of a life without children, and why this is a different conversation from others you may have been part of until now.