617: Why So Many Women Are Choosing Not To Have Children- Child-Free By Choice with Sahara Rose
Highest Self Podcast®
Sahara Rose
4.8 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2025
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
This week’s solocast is one that might get me canceled… but you know what? it’s also one of the most important. 🌱
For so long, women have been told our purpose is to have children—and if we don’t, we’re selfish. In this episode, I share my own journey of wrestling with that question. From believing I’d “want kids someday,” to a plant medicine journey that told me I was here to be a mother, to the deeper truth I’ve come back to: right now, I don’t believe motherhood is my path.
I talk about the “good girl” conditioning so many of us carry, the reality of how marriage + motherhood impact women differently than men, and why I see more women choosing to remain child-free as an act of resistance.
This isn’t about saying one choice is better than the other—it’s about being radically honest with yourself. Your worth isn’t tied to whether or not you have kids. Your life matters. Your dharma matters. 🌹
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| 0:00.0 | So let's have a conversation about this word selfish. It is the word that when we are thrown, |
| 0:05.0 | you are selfish. It is like a dagger to our above heart. Oh, me selfish. Never, I would give my |
| 0:11.8 | entire life force to someone because I'm a good girl. Again, it's that good girl conditioning |
| 0:16.9 | that we are brought up with. How many of you guys were little girls that when you were helping |
| 0:21.2 | mom, when you were serving your family, when you were taking care of the house, taking care of your |
| 0:27.1 | younger siblings, you were a good girl. You were given love and approval and attention and validation. |
| 0:32.8 | And when you weren't, when you were, God forbid, trying or writing or just doing something else? |
| 0:41.2 | Bad girl. Welcome back to Let go. |
| 0:54.2 | Trust flow, surrender, let go. |
| 0:56.8 | I'm the one I've been waiting for. |
| 1:01.0 | Welcome back to the highest self podcast. |
| 1:03.2 | My name is Sahara Rose, and on this podcast, I love to talk about spirituality, the divine feminine, the topics happening in a woman's life. But make it modern, fun, grounded, |
| 1:14.4 | and relatable so it can actually serve your needs. And before we drop into this episode, |
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| 1:45.1 | future episodes. Now, let's get into this one. I want to talk about something that would have |
| 1:50.0 | definitely had me burnt at the stake not too long ago. And this is something, a topic, a conversation |
| 1:58.6 | that I have been having with my closest friends. And I started to share |
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