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Jody Day (Gateway Women)
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'That childless woman.' Psychotherapist, author, Substacker, TEDxer, cat staff, apprentice crone. Founder of Gateway Women and Gateway Elderwomen #Childless #Childfree #WestCork #AgeingWithoutChildren https://linktr.ee/gatewaywomen
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This podcast interview with me dropped today. I listened to it in the bath this morning- it's a goodie!
Square image with text 'The So Now What Podcast: Episode 169. With Lana Manikowski and Jody Day'. Photo of Lana Manikowski standing wearing red top and jeans. Inset photo of Jody Day with long silver hair and black and white top.
May 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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For Valentine's Day, let's remember that LOVE is a liberatory energy. "Let’s liberate love, and each other, any and every way we can." Free to read at jodyday.substack.com/p/lets-flood...
Left - female Asian elephant. Right - Jody Day, author of the piece is stroking the elephant's mouth under her trunk. In the background are the mountains of northern Thailand. Photo taken at Doilim Elephant Sanctuary. Overlaid with the tittle of Substack essay "Let's flood the zone with love: liberate your heart this Valentine's Day" and the URL jodyday.substack.com
February 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Have you had coaching at work around a 'CSI' - 'concealable stigmatised identity' such as sexual orientation, illness, disability, neurodiversity, hidden ethnicity, class, parental status, gender identity, religion, etc?

Interviewees needed for PhD research.

Email Sophia 18024638@brookes.ac.uk
An opportunity to participate in research about how coaching can help individuals with concealable stigmatised identities navigate inclusivity issues in the workplace. “Concealable stigmatised identity” (CSI) is a term used in literature to describe a part of a person' s identity which can be kept hidden from others, and which is socially stigmatized, devalued and negatively stereotyped. Examples include sexual orientation, illness, disability, neurodiversity, hidden ethnicity, class, parental status, gender identity, religion. The research will use the term ‘CSI’ because it is used in the literature, it is not intended to label individuals. Concealing information to avoid stigma can interfere with a person’s ability to authentically be themselves, contrasting with rhetoric about bringing one’s whole self to work. Coaching for diversity has focused on visible characteristics, and the aim of this research is to explore how coaching can help people with CSIs navigate inclusivity challenges they may face in the workplace. This research hopes to add to professional practice by providing coaches and coach educators with insights, in this under-researched area, on how to work with individuals with CSIs in the workplace, and on a broader level potentially contribute to workplace inclusivity. You may be internal or external to the organisation. The coaching did not have to be specifically for an individual’s CSI, but your coachee would have discussed their CSI and its workplace impact with you. What does taking part involve? Taking part involves participating in a 60-90 minute interview by Zoom with Sophia Andeh between January and September 2024. All information shared within this research will be kept strictly confidential (subject to legal limitations). If you have any questions, or to obtain a participant information sheet, please email Sophia at 18024638@brookes.ac.uk
February 9, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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January's Gateway Women newsletter just gone out. Been writing it for 14 years now! Sadly features an RIP for my darling Parsnip who left us yesterday. Lots more than that of interest to childless/free folks around the world. bit.ly/gw-jan25
Front cover of Gateway Women's January email newsletter. Features two photos of a small white Parson's Russell terrier named 'Parsnip'. Photo on left shows Parsnip laughing on a green grass hill overlooking an Irish beach. Right hand photo shows Parnship looking at camera and a small part of Jody's face also looking at camera.
January 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Starts in 1-hour! Free, live & recorded webinar: Fireside Wisdom with Childless Elderwomen on 'Solo Elderhood'. Whatever your partnership or reproductive identity you are very welcome! bit.ly/gwe-solo #AWOC #AgeingWithoutChildren
Starts in 1-hour! Free, live & recorded webinar: Fireside Wisdom with Childless Elderwomen on 'Solo Elderhood'. Whatever your partnership or reproductive identity you are very welcome! https://bit.ly/gwe-solo
December 15, 2024 at 7:08 PM
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In my latest essay, I explore the 'bag lady' fantasy that haunts the minds of so many women ageing without children, and perhaps even more so those also without partners. And I unpack my own surprising response to meeting my own inner bag lady.
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In the background of the text, a black and white photo of the author, Jody Day, blurred and indistinct, ghostly. The text reads: "The 3am bag lady blues: scaring yourself about ageing alone without children" Line break 'But who's going to be there for me when I'm old? is a thought that keeps many women without children awake at 3am. And in that 'hour of the wolf' as they call it in Russia... ' Line break https://jodyday.substack.com
December 7, 2024 at 9:30 AM
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My December Gateway Women newsletter just went out to the thousands of childless peeps (& allies) who've given me the honour of their eyeballs for the last 13 years!

So, probably 50% freebies, 10% paid offers, 30% philosophy and 10% snark/giggles. (Much like me).

read or subscribe: bit.ly/gw-dec24
Screenshot of front page of Gateway Women December email newsletter. Shows Gateway Women logo at top. Illustrated with a photograph of Jody Day (on right - a 60 year old White woman with long grey hair) with friend Kelly (on left) - a middle-aged White woman with dark hair. Both are smiling/laughing against at backdrop of the countryside/seaside of West Cork, Ireland at Sunset.
December 5, 2024 at 6:38 PM
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My new essay on my 'Gateway Elderwomen' Substack explores why the pejorative words used for older women, such as Crone, Hag and Harpy have such shaming power... and how we can (and must) take that power back.

Free to read (paid subscribers welcome, special offer for December!) at: bit.ly/gwe-loud
December 4, 2024 at 1:22 PM
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In a dark month, the sky went blue again. Thank you x
An image of the Mona Lisa painting; her hair is mussed and she has dark shadows below her eyes. The caption reads: "It's November, the year is almost over. I'm holding up. I'm okay.
November 23, 2024 at 9:26 PM
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Winter beauty. Snow and winter sunset in #WestCork a couple of days ago (before Bert).
A landscape photograph of West Cork, Ireland. Looking across a bay to a headland featuring small cottages, in the distance, another bay and beyond that rolling hills covered in a light touch of snow. All bathed in a warm sunset light.
November 23, 2024 at 6:18 PM
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A dark sky and a double rainbow here in #WestCork today. Feels like a fresh start in so many ways.
Tuesday 19th November. Photograph by Jody Day of Irish bay (Blindstrand, West Cork) with headland and a few cottages, and a huge rainbow making land and sea fall.
November 19, 2024 at 11:54 AM
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This is Parsnip. She’s a Parsons Russell (sort of long-legged Jack Russell) and an absolute poppet. She’s almost 13 and fading fast; currently lying on me so I can’t get up and get on with my working day. *whistles innocently*
November 18, 2024 at 11:46 AM
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Maybe putting the bar a bit high, but here we go…
November 17, 2024 at 9:01 PM
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Our very last ONLINE Reignite Weekend is coming up on 3/4 December. Suitable for N & S American timezones and UK/EU (with a 12am finish!) Because a meaningful & fulfilling life after childless really is possible! https://bit.ly/3g0oJoY
November 20, 2024 at 4:05 PM
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A must-listen interview with @stellduffy by Dr Sharon Blackie (author 'Hagitude') touching on early, surgical menopause, cancer, death consciousness, infertility, childlessness, joy, flow, existentialism & a fascinating new look at Snow White's Stepmother! https://apple.co/3sZkLjj
November 20, 2024 at 4:16 PM
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Give your childless heart a gift to make this holiday season easier. Join myself (Jody, psychotherapist, creator of the Reignite Weekend) & Catherine-Emmanuelle Delisle (Founder of @FemmeSansEnfant & GW Facilitator) for a LIVE, ONLINE, 3 & 4th December! https://bit.ly/3DBXBED
November 20, 2024 at 4:16 PM
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This is a must-listen episode @NLInstitue. What I hadn't appreciated is how many OTHER health/reproductive issues are impacted, & how my privileged 'it won't happen here' isn't good enough: this is about all women's lives, everywhere. https://bit.ly/3fswi7N @VoiceAmericaTRN
November 20, 2024 at 4:16 PM
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Sue Yen Wan is a valued member of the childless community, an author and an international yoga teacher and practitioner with decades of experience. Join her for a totally free online class on #WorldMenopauseDay, Tues 18th October at 6pm-7pm BST (UK time) https://bit.ly/3s26dyR
November 20, 2024 at 4:16 PM
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Explore some of my podcast interviews (often with transcripts) on Gateway Women website https://bit.ly/3LL98VW Thanks for the love, cash & care: @geetapendse @NLInstitute @hilaryfennell_ @griefreliefpod @DorynWallach @MsHelenRussell Sara Avant Stover, @Civilla1 @TheFullStop1
November 20, 2024 at 4:28 PM
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We talk about medical infertility, social infertility, shame, mental health issues and @ChildlessWeek Thank you @MetroUK @MentallyYrs podcast https://bit.ly/3C4XYIg
November 20, 2024 at 4:28 PM
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Some thoughts from my recent in depth conversation with Sophie Jane Hardy for @red.school 'Menstruality' Podcast. Listen/read the transcript at:...
November 20, 2024 at 4:28 PM
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Today's theme for #WorldChildlessWeek is 'Childlessness in the Workplace'. As well as content by childless people from around the world, there are 3 free & recorded webinars you can join (or watch the following day on the @ChildlessWeek website: https://bit.ly/3BFZoZq #DEIB
November 20, 2024 at 4:28 PM
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Today's #WorldChildlessWeek theme is 'A Letter to My Younger Self'. As well as contributions from childless people around the world, there are also 2 free & recorded webinars: 'Write to Heal' with Bindi Shah & 'Fireside Wisdom with Childless Elderwomen'.
https://bit.ly/3eNqDIs
November 20, 2024 at 4:28 PM
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Tuesday's #WorldChildlessWeek theme is 'Childless and Single'. Throughout the day, childless people from around the world will be sharing their experiences and are also two free live & webinars to join too at 9am/7pm BST https://bit.ly/3B88ywk More @ChildlessWeek
November 20, 2024 at 4:42 PM
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It's #WorldChildlessWeek! And there are 17 free webinars you can join - all but one are also recorded. Sign up for any/all of them here. I'm part of 'Therapy As a Therapist' and 'Letters to our Younger Selves' https://worldchildlessweek.net/events
November 20, 2024 at 4:42 PM