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Your Fertile Years - What You Need to Know to Make Informed Choices by Professor Joyce Harper
Your Fertile Years - What You Need to Know to Make Informed Choices by Professor Joyce Harper

Your Fertile Years

When Joyce was in her twenties she started working in the field of fertility and she often had conversations with friends about their bodies and their fertility.  At this time she read ‘Ourbody, ourselves’ and felt it was a book that every woman should read…

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Your Joyful Years

In Your Joyful Years, Professor Joyce Harper provides an empowering, evidence-based guide to thriving beyond 50. Moving past the menopause, this book reframes later life as a vibrant new beginning—a time to rediscover purpose and prioritise self-care. Combining 40 years of scientific expertise with the candid wisdom of 50 inspiring women, Professor Harper offers a reassuring roadmap to health, happiness, and living authentically. This is the essential second book in her life-stage trilogy, proving that your best years are still to come.

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Season 2 / Episode 18 – 4 September

Jody Day: Childlessness

In this podcast Professor Joyce Harper will be interviewing guests to discuss all things health related and debunking some of the many myths around our health.

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This podcast is part of the series on Motherhood and is coming out just before World Childless Week.  worldchildlessweek.net

Jody Day is the founder of Gateway Women, the global advocacy network for childless women, founded in 2011. She’s the author of what many professionals consider to be the ‘go-to’ book on the topic, ‘Living the Life Unexpected: How to Find Hope, Meaning and a Fulfilling Future Without Children’. Chosen as one of the BBC’s 100 Women in 2013 and as a UK Digital Woman of the Year in 2021, she’s a global thought leader on female involuntary childlessness, a psychotherapist, a 2017 and 2022 TEDx speaker, a founding and former board member at UK Charity Ageing Well Without Children and a former Fellow in Social Innovation at Cambridge Judge Business School.

Often referred to as the founder of the ‘childless movement’ she’s been an Ambassador for World Childless Week since its inception in 2017. Since 2018 she has lived in rural Ireland, where she’s working on two new books and nurturing her emerging Gateway Elderwomen project, which includes developing local, non-kin, intergenerational support networks for those ageing without children.

What is the difference between childfree and childless? In several countries, about 20% of women do not have children. Joyce and Jody discuss why women might be childless, such as not being able to find the right partner, not being able to get pregnant or failure of fertility treatments. All of these situations can result in women experiencing trauma, which needs to be resolved. And this is where Jody can help. In 2011 Jody shared her story and since then she has been working with women to encourage them to share their stories through Gateway Women. Her book has helped so many, as well as her women’s circles, therapists and Gateway Women Reignite Weekend workshops. She wants women to find their meaningful life without motherhood. With menopause, comes the realisation that getting pregnant is no longer an option and in 2014, Jody wrote a blog called ‘The Childless Menopause’. This is a powerful podcast.

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