Nicole Louie is a writer, translator, and content curator based in Ireland. She has dedicated a great amount of time to finding and sharing the stories of amazing women without children through her social media accounts (@bynicolelouie). In our conversation, Nicole shares her personal journey of feeling isolated as a childfree woman which lead her to books, and in turn, she has written one of her own.
Here are the resources she shared in our conversation, sorted by topic.
Ambivalence
Book: Beyond Motherhood by Jeanne Safer (1996).
Childfree path
Laura Carrol:
Book: Families of Two: Interviews with Happily Married Couples Without Children by Choice (2000).
Book: The Baby Matrix (2012).
Marcia Drut Davis:
Book. Confession of a Childfree Woman (2013).
Childless not by choice path
Jody Day, Founder of the Gateway community
In-person workshops
A list of childless therapists, counselors and coaches on their website https://gateway-women.com
Being single
Bella DePaulo
Has written quite a few books about this topic
Book: Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After
Connect with Nicole: Instagram and Twitter with the handle @bynicolelouie
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