76: How to Get Past Envy as a Childless Woman

Awakening Worth in Childless Women

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Navigating a sea of baby showers and first birthdays can feel isolating, especially as a woman who has not had children. If you've found yourself avoiding friends with young ones or feeling a twinge of envy every time a pregnancy announcement pops up on your feed, you're not alone. In this episode, we're confronting those feelings head-on, not as something to be ashamed of, but as a step towards finding peace.
You will discover:

• 3 mistakes childless women make when it comes to envy
• how to identify the actual emotion you're feeling when you see a pregnancy announcement
• the first 3 steps to facing envy and working through

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Other References in Episode:

Podcast episodes:

• Who Will Take Care of Me When I Get Old? With Jody Day
• How to Know if You Are Stuck in Disenfranchised Grief as a Childless Woman

Book: Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience by Brené Brown

Chapters

1. 76: How to Get Past Envy as a Childless Woman (00:00:00)

2. Overcoming Envy for Childless Women (00:00:02)

3. What happened when my sister and then sister-in-law got pregnant (00:03:00)

4. Mistakes to avoid (00:06:23)

5. The first three steps to moving through envy (00:09:23)