Sat 28 September 2024 • 2:15pm
How To Befriend Your Inner Critic When You’re Not A Parent
Storyhouse Childless
Event details
This is a practical, informative, and interactive workshop providing a space for non-parents, covering what the inner critic is, why we have them and how we can befriend them, so that we’re working together rather than battling them all the time.
When we either choose, or we lose that choice to have children, the inner critic that has been shaped by societal and familial expectations can increase in volume and viciousness. This combination can leave us frozen in fear, stuck in a critical maelstrom that paralyses and leaves us unable to move forward.
Learning to befriend and work with the inner critic can free us from this frozen state allowing us the space to explore who we are as non-parents, giving us the capacity to develop and grow free of shame and guilt that may not be our own.
This 45-minute workshop will cover the following:
- Identifying what the inner critic is telling us individually and collectively
- What purpose the inner critic serves and where it comes from
- How to work with the inner critic through visualisation
- Interactive exercises to help the group see themes, the origin of those themes and to work with their own inner critic
- Group reflection time
Members: £4.50
Non-members: £5
Included in the Childless Weekend Pass (£35)
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About the facilitators
Sarah Lawrence She/Her
Sarah Lawrence is a qualified trauma-informed counsellor, specialising in working with the grief and trauma of childlessness under the name After the Storm. She also designs and runs workshops and retreats alongside Karin Enfield-De Vries especially for those that have been unable to have the children they wanted. She also facilitates Gateway Women Reignite weekends as well as a co-founder of The Full Stop, a podcast and online community specifically for the childless. She is childless because of Endometriosis and Adenomyosis, which resulted in a hysterectomy at 42. She lives in Kent with her husband and her two cats.
Karin Enfield-De Vries She/Her
Karin Enfield-De Vries is a qualified grief counsellor and coach under the name Pure Transformations. She helps childless women transform their lives, by helping to enable people to live the life they want rather than the life the think they should have. Using her experience of change management and training she designs and runs workshops and retreats with Sarah Lawrence specifically for the non-parented. Karin was born in The Netherlands and now lives in Belgium with her British husband. She is childless not by choice due to cervical cancer.