Thank you for this voice note! <3 Wonderful. I also have three non extisting children. Let's see, they would have been 24, 17 and 6. I'm also a musician in another dimension, probably Swedish folk music or maybe European medeival or renessains music. The road I didn't take. Very interesting. Might actually write a few letters in my journal to different versions of me. Thank you again, this resonates so much. And I love listening to your voice as well as reading your words.
Susannah, your non-podcast just touched my mother's heart! I'm enormously glad I had children. However, to me, the most important thing about having children is the opportunity to love another being who you have a certain responsibility for. And sometimes that opportunity comes not with having one's own children, but with loving nephews, or a cat, or in my daughter's case a soul-mate pup. <3
Thank you, Susannah, for your Non- Podcast. I pretty like podcasts but I like more not knowing how you'll reach out to us, knowing that you'll reach out one way or the other.
I'm 43 and I have some unborn kids or dream kids in my past too. Two years ago I met the man of my dreams and I'm with him still now, but we don't have kids on our own and I don't think we'll have in the future. I'm ok with it. This is my life, and it could have been different, but like you I'm happy not to have those possible kids, very happy actually, because it would have been more difficult for me to meet my man now and their fathers wouldn't have been my man. I pretty love kids, and two months ago I became auntie of a beautiful baby girl, daughter of my brother. I'm happy to have the chance to see her growing and to love her not being her mother but her auntie. Curiously, when my sister-in-law became pregnant (still not knowing it) in the same days I was afraid to be pregnant. So I knew thanks to my fear that I didn't want to became a mother, and at the same time it's like my last possible kid has become my niece. Funny, isn't it?
Loved your Non-podcast. I have missed hearing your voice (you are like an old friend and your voice is comforting). Love the topic and it has stayed with me for some time now, thanks for sharing. I have read your blog for some time now, done a few of your courses, and enjoyed your fox pictures. Hope to hear from you soon and surprise us with your next inspiration. Take care and love to you and Baba.
So lovely to listen to your voice (especially after having followed your blog for years!). Love the idea of parallel selves living out versions of our lives.
Out of curiosity, I wondered if you had ever considered adoption as it’s something I’m exploring myself.
hello lovely! Adoption was never something i considered because for me it was always about a child birthed from my own body. I think it's definitely worth weighing up all possibilities to tune into what feels right for you - sending you love and clarity for your journey! xx
I love your Not a Podcast Note to a friend. The Multiverse you talk about reminds me of the Golden Compass and the rest of Philip Pullman's books with Lyra (Waiting for the third book to complete the second set!!) I don't listen to podcasts and I loved yours and look forward to more! Thank you Susannah!
Very cozy...loved the conversational feel. Thank you for sharing! I've thought about parallel me's before - so much food for thought and bittersweet-ness there. Due to fertility issues and other life stuff, I have one son who is now a teenager and he feels meant to be - there was a reason I didn't or couldn't get pregnant before him. I do wonder sometimes about his siblings-who-could-have-been and used to feel the echoes of a little girl around me. Always wondered if she was a daughter who doesn't exist for this version of myself.
So interesting to listen to your thoughts. I too had a pregnancy termination in my early 20s, and also have had no regrets. It wasn't the right time or the right person. I am happy auntie - actually my 2 great nephews are having birthdays this month, and one of them is a daddy! I understand what you mean about giving those possibilities ages. Makes perfect sense to me.
Personality quiz was Gretchen Rubin’s Four Tendencies. In the dictionary under rebel, there is a picture of you. 😂😘
This concept of other selves makes me even more heartbroken that Everything Everywhere All at Once refused to play properly! 💔Multiverse heaven and other selves! Also, you MUST watch Into the Spider Verse- it’s magic and so satisfying with multiverse stories. Also Umbrella Academy is all about it. I’m fascinated, too.
I know that feeling too well, and yet it is bittersweet too, because if I had a baby at... 37? I would probably have died.
After my hysterectomy, that’s what my gynaecologist told me. They’d checked the uterus, and said that if I had gotten pregnant, the hormones would have made the kind of cancer cells I had go nuts and I might not even have survived a full term.
And my husband would have been a single dad.
The multiverse concept you’ve so beautifully described can also be about creative projects I’m now struggling with.
Somewhere is an artist who kept at it and sells paintings for gazillions. Somewhere is a poet laureate me. Somewhere a multi billion earning novellist. Somewhere is a woman who does it all and thrives.
But also, they may not have learned the things from pain that I have learned. So maybe they are blasé and frankly, idiots. 😃
Thank you so much for this non-podcast. I’ll save this response for deeper thinking on my own multiverse and where I fit in.
That Gretchen Rubin quiz helped me understand so much about myself. I'm a fellow rebel! I think this is why I've been drawn to your courses (I've taken Daily Guidance and 78 Mirrors and participated in the first year of Journal Love Club.) Your teaching style works really well for me and I've learned so much. Thank you. And thank you for continuing to put content like this out. :)
I loved the non podcast. I'm the same rebel...if it's my schedule then I can't do it every time. NO every "Tuesday" yoga....most Tuesdays but not all! Oh the drudgery. Love and kitty kisses to you and Baba.
Gretchen Rubin’s The Four Tendencies?
Thank you for this voice note! <3 Wonderful. I also have three non extisting children. Let's see, they would have been 24, 17 and 6. I'm also a musician in another dimension, probably Swedish folk music or maybe European medeival or renessains music. The road I didn't take. Very interesting. Might actually write a few letters in my journal to different versions of me. Thank you again, this resonates so much. And I love listening to your voice as well as reading your words.
Susannah, your non-podcast just touched my mother's heart! I'm enormously glad I had children. However, to me, the most important thing about having children is the opportunity to love another being who you have a certain responsibility for. And sometimes that opportunity comes not with having one's own children, but with loving nephews, or a cat, or in my daughter's case a soul-mate pup. <3
Thank you, Susannah, for your Non- Podcast. I pretty like podcasts but I like more not knowing how you'll reach out to us, knowing that you'll reach out one way or the other.
I'm 43 and I have some unborn kids or dream kids in my past too. Two years ago I met the man of my dreams and I'm with him still now, but we don't have kids on our own and I don't think we'll have in the future. I'm ok with it. This is my life, and it could have been different, but like you I'm happy not to have those possible kids, very happy actually, because it would have been more difficult for me to meet my man now and their fathers wouldn't have been my man. I pretty love kids, and two months ago I became auntie of a beautiful baby girl, daughter of my brother. I'm happy to have the chance to see her growing and to love her not being her mother but her auntie. Curiously, when my sister-in-law became pregnant (still not knowing it) in the same days I was afraid to be pregnant. So I knew thanks to my fear that I didn't want to became a mother, and at the same time it's like my last possible kid has become my niece. Funny, isn't it?
All my love to you
Loved your Non-podcast. I have missed hearing your voice (you are like an old friend and your voice is comforting). Love the topic and it has stayed with me for some time now, thanks for sharing. I have read your blog for some time now, done a few of your courses, and enjoyed your fox pictures. Hope to hear from you soon and surprise us with your next inspiration. Take care and love to you and Baba.
You have a great voice for audio :). Seriously. If we lived nearer, I would ask you to narrate my films xxx
Oh wow, that's the biggest compliment you could give me! 😘😘
Gretchen Rubin, right? ❤️ “Four Tendencies” I’m an Obliger. Oof. Loving the nonpodcast!
So lovely to listen to your voice (especially after having followed your blog for years!). Love the idea of parallel selves living out versions of our lives.
Out of curiosity, I wondered if you had ever considered adoption as it’s something I’m exploring myself.
hello lovely! Adoption was never something i considered because for me it was always about a child birthed from my own body. I think it's definitely worth weighing up all possibilities to tune into what feels right for you - sending you love and clarity for your journey! xx
I love your Not a Podcast Note to a friend. The Multiverse you talk about reminds me of the Golden Compass and the rest of Philip Pullman's books with Lyra (Waiting for the third book to complete the second set!!) I don't listen to podcasts and I loved yours and look forward to more! Thank you Susannah!
Very cozy...loved the conversational feel. Thank you for sharing! I've thought about parallel me's before - so much food for thought and bittersweet-ness there. Due to fertility issues and other life stuff, I have one son who is now a teenager and he feels meant to be - there was a reason I didn't or couldn't get pregnant before him. I do wonder sometimes about his siblings-who-could-have-been and used to feel the echoes of a little girl around me. Always wondered if she was a daughter who doesn't exist for this version of myself.
So interesting to listen to your thoughts. I too had a pregnancy termination in my early 20s, and also have had no regrets. It wasn't the right time or the right person. I am happy auntie - actually my 2 great nephews are having birthdays this month, and one of them is a daddy! I understand what you mean about giving those possibilities ages. Makes perfect sense to me.
Hope to listen to you again some time.
Personality quiz was Gretchen Rubin’s Four Tendencies. In the dictionary under rebel, there is a picture of you. 😂😘
This concept of other selves makes me even more heartbroken that Everything Everywhere All at Once refused to play properly! 💔Multiverse heaven and other selves! Also, you MUST watch Into the Spider Verse- it’s magic and so satisfying with multiverse stories. Also Umbrella Academy is all about it. I’m fascinated, too.
I know that feeling too well, and yet it is bittersweet too, because if I had a baby at... 37? I would probably have died.
After my hysterectomy, that’s what my gynaecologist told me. They’d checked the uterus, and said that if I had gotten pregnant, the hormones would have made the kind of cancer cells I had go nuts and I might not even have survived a full term.
And my husband would have been a single dad.
The multiverse concept you’ve so beautifully described can also be about creative projects I’m now struggling with.
Somewhere is an artist who kept at it and sells paintings for gazillions. Somewhere is a poet laureate me. Somewhere a multi billion earning novellist. Somewhere is a woman who does it all and thrives.
But also, they may not have learned the things from pain that I have learned. So maybe they are blasé and frankly, idiots. 😃
Thank you so much for this non-podcast. I’ll save this response for deeper thinking on my own multiverse and where I fit in.
That Gretchen Rubin quiz helped me understand so much about myself. I'm a fellow rebel! I think this is why I've been drawn to your courses (I've taken Daily Guidance and 78 Mirrors and participated in the first year of Journal Love Club.) Your teaching style works really well for me and I've learned so much. Thank you. And thank you for continuing to put content like this out. :)
I love listening to you as much as I love reading your words❣️
I loved the non podcast. I'm the same rebel...if it's my schedule then I can't do it every time. NO every "Tuesday" yoga....most Tuesdays but not all! Oh the drudgery. Love and kitty kisses to you and Baba.