One Thing With Ruby Warrington on the stubbornly taboo topic of women without kids
The Therapy Edit
Anna Mathur
4.9 • 915 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of The Therapy Edit, they discuss Ruby's One Thing: how society must turn the tables on their approach towards women without kids.
Foregoing motherhood has traditionally marked a woman as "other." With no official place setting for her in our society, she has hovered on the sidelines: the quirky girl, the neurotic career obsessive, the "eccentric" aunt. Instead of continuing to paint women without kids as sad, self-obsessed, or somehow dysfunctional, what if we saw them as boldly forging a new vision for a fully autonomous womankind? Or as journalist and thought leader Ruby asks, what if being a woman without kids were in fact its own kind of legacy?
We hope you find Rubys words insightful.
You can find Ruby on Instagram here
Order Ruby's book 'Women Without Kids' here.
Order Ruby's book 'Sober Curious: The Blissful Sleep, Greater Focus, and Deep Connection Awaiting Us All on the Other Side of Alcohol' here.
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| 0:31.3 | Hello and welcome to The Therapy Edit with me psych therapists mom of three and author Anna Martha |
| 0:37.0 | every Friday I invite one guest to tell me the one thing they would most like to share with mums everywhere. |
| 0:46.3 | So join with me as we hear this dose of wisdom. |
| 0:50.3 | I hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:57.0 | Hi everyone, welcome to today's guest episode of The Therapy Edit. I've really been looking forward to this one. |
| 0:59.0 | We are speaking with Ruby Warrington. |
| 1:02.0 | She is an editor and a speaker. She's the author of three but |
| 1:05.2 | very soon to be four books and she's a book dula which totally intrigued me |
| 1:10.7 | someone who guides people through the literary process which is such a |
| 1:14.8 | process and I really could have done with that in the early days now I know we'd be |
| 1:19.0 | through her work with encouraging us to re-evaluate our relationship to alcohol, which I found really |
| 1:24.0 | pertinent in my journey over the last couple of years when I've really become |
| 1:27.6 | increasingly uncomfortable with the mummy wine culture and have made some |
| 1:31.2 | significant changes in my life. |
| 1:34.0 | Ruby is the creator of that term that we now use |
| 1:38.0 | often in our discussion around our relationships with alcohol. |
| 1:41.0 | The term sober curious, |
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