THE EMPTY CRADLE RESOURCES
For women who don’t have children
RESOURCES
For women who don’t have children
This page gathers resources for people navigating childlessness, grief, and emotional healing.
Whether you are here for insight, comfort, or practical guidance, you are welcome to take what supports you and leave what does not.
The Empty Cradle Blog
A growing library of articles exploring the lived experience of involuntary childlessness.
Topics may include health and wellbeing, identity and meaning, social connection and belonging, relationships, ageing, and life transitions. Together, these areas create space to explore who you are beyond the roles you have held, how your needs are changing, and what it means to feel grounded, connected, and fulfilled in this stage of life.
This work is also about acceptance, integration, and gently crafting a beautiful life beyond motherhood. It is an opportunity to reconnect with yourself, rediscover what brings you energy and purpose, and begin reigniting your life spark in a way that feels honest, meaningful, and deeply your own.
Some foundations of feminist scholarship into motherhood and non-motherhood
Whether by-choice, not-by-choice, or in-between. The Empty Cradle exists to bring the many and diverse lived experiences of involuntary childlessness, both grief and renewal, into the public narrative. We are women who had hoped, or deeply hoped to be mothers, and for whatever reason, it didn’t happen for us. Feminist scholarship into motherhood and choosing…
World Childless Week 2024: Free webinar recording
WCW2024 WEBINAR: Constructing Worthiness – An intimate conversation between Gayle Letherby and Sarah Roberts WEBINAR SYNOPSIS Dear Listener, We hope you are well and welcome you to our webinar for World Childless Week 2024: Constructing worthiness – an intimate conversation Involuntary childlessness is a personal, social and cultural experience and the way it unfolds in…
Reignite Weekend, Melbourne, 8 & 9 March 2025
Come, experience the life changing magic of Jody Day’s Gateway Women Reignite Weekend This workshop really is a balm for your tender heart and precious soul. Women in our community are just amazing!!! This workshop is lovingly co-facilitated by Sarah Roberts from the Empty Cradle and Judy Graham from Womenhood Counselling. For over five years,…
Childlessness & Regret Group Program
Starting in March 2025 Express your interest today Needs a quick overview of the program here. Expression of interest is now open to receive information and go on the waiting list for applications starting Very much looking forward to sharing this life-changing group experience with you. Warmly, Sarah Roberts Express Interest Includes Includes Application and…
ABC LIFESTYLE: Childlessness can cause a ‘deep existential crisis’. What you say about it matters.
Childlessness can cause a ‘deep existential crisis’. What you say about it matters. Published during World Childless Week 2024, this ABC LIFESTYLE article features World Childless Week Ambassadors from the Asia/Pacific Region, Sarah Roberts and Judy Graham. We discuss the common responses and comments that many childless women and men experience. Sometimes we receive genuinely…