Finding Connection Through the Stories of Others with Nicole Louie

Nicole Louie is a writer, translator, and content curator based in Ireland. She has dedicated a great amount of time to finding and sharing the stories of amazing women without children through her social media accounts (@bynicolelouie). In our conversation, Nicole shares her personal journey of feeling isolated as a childfree woman which lead her to books, and in turn, she has written one of her own.

Here are the resources she shared in our conversation, sorted by topic.

Ambivalence 

• Book: Beyond Motherhood by Jeanne Safer (1996). 

Childfree path 

Laura Carrol: 

• Book: Families of Two: Interviews with Happily Married Couples Without Children by Choice (2000).

• Book: The Baby Matrix (2012).

Marcia Drut Davis: 

• Book. Confession of a Childfree Woman (2013).

Childless not by choice path

Jody Day, Founder of the Gateway community

• In-person workshops

• A list of childless therapists, counselors and coaches on their website https://gateway-women.com

Being single

Bella DePaulo

• Has written quite a few books about this topic

  • Book: Singled Out: How Singles Are Stereotyped, Stigmatized, and Ignored, and Still Live Happily Ever After

Connect with Nicole: Instagram and Twitter with the handle @bynicolelouie