The Day I Stopped Saying Sorry By Yvonne Hector-John There was a moment, just before I walked on stage at an International Women’s Day event in 2017, when I genuinely believed I was going to die. Not from the lights. Not from the audience. From the truth I was about to tell. I was forty-five. I had been carrying two stories for over twenty years. The first: I had ended two pregnancies in my twenties – neither planned, neither in relationships that welcomed them. The second: when I finally tried for a baby in my early forties, my body…
Author: Yvonne Hector-John
Yvonne Hector-John
Yvonne Hector-John is the author of Dreaming of a Life Unlived: Intimate Stories and Portraits of Women Without Children, a psychodynamic therapist, and public speaker centring the lived experience of women who are childless not by choice. A graduate of the Gateway Women Plan B Mentorship Programme, she facilitates Reignite Weekends, is an ambassador for World Childless Week, and founded Healing Hearts Circles, creating rooms where women stop apologising.
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