On Wednesday 17th September 2025, I presented an online session for World Childless Week. 

The session was called Exploring Childlessness Through Creative Approaches To Internal Family Systems (IFS). 

What’s in the video?

During the hour-long session, I offered a short guided grounding meditation before telling a bit of my story of how it’s been, coming to terms with being childless. 

This was the first time I’d told my story in the public realm (apart from these here blogs!). It felt great to share it with other childless people who understand the unique pains of baby loss and/or involuntary childlessness. There is such incredible medicine in being heard by ears and hearts that really get it.

During my story I embodied some of the inner parts that get activated around the subject of my childlessness (the Project Manager, the Inner Critic, Despair and the Grieving Mother) and wove in some basic IFS theory. 

I then invited participants to explore their inner parts through a guided visualisation. The participants bravely shared their experiences in the chat box and I responded to their sharings with what I hope came across as resonance and compassion.

I hope I gave a good enough taster of IFS and demonstrated some of the ways that creative and embodied approaches to IFS can be useful to people who are coming to terms with involuntary childlessness. 

You can watch the video on youtube by clicking here.

Feedback from participants

"Thank you very much for this incredibly helpful webinar and for your warmth, honesty and compassion."

"My appreciative part is sending thanks for such a wonderful warm poignant talk Holly "

"Thank you for such a beautiful session, Holly. This felt just perfect. I feel the echoes of your care and compassion even after the music has stopped! (PS my 'fuck it, this IS hard work`' parts welcome the f-bombs toward the end ;) )"

"I don't know how the YouTube algorithm chose your webinar for me but I started watching last week. I am involuntarily childless ... and as I'm now travelling through menopause, I have continued to stuff down my grief and refused to deal with it....I was crying almost instantly (which is in itself a miracle as I've only recently allowed tears back into my life).... You are such a gift to the world. Radiant, authentic, and a beautiful conduit of healing and truth."

Was the session useful to you? Feel free to get in touch at holly@hollystoppit.com 

To find out more about my webinar click here.

You can access all the recordings from WORLD CHILDLESS WEEK on youtube here.

You can find out more about World Childless Week here.

To find out more about my journey with IFS start here.