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Jody Day (Gateway Women)

@gatewaywomen.bsky.social

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'That childless woman.' Psychotherapist, author, Substacker, TEDxer, cat staff, apprentice crone. Founder of Gateway Women and Gateway Elderwomen #Childless #Childfree #WestCork #AgeingWithoutChildren https://linktr.ee/gatewaywomen

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Jody Day (Gateway Women) @gatewaywomen.bsky.social · Aug 3

With 100+ comments, my essay on what a small group of us in a rural Irish location are doing to support each other as people ageing without children is getting a LOT of attention! jodyday.substack.com/p/whos-going...

Who's going to be there for me when I'm old?

Introducing Alterkin (Alternative Kinship Circles)

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Jody Day (Gateway Women) @gatewaywomen.bsky.social · Jun 2

What is your relationship to the concept of 'legacy' as someone without children? Mine is complex, and it's changed RADICALLY over time. Free to read: jodyday.substack.com/p/leaving-no...

Leaving nothing behind

The liberation of no legacy

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Jody Day (Gateway Women) @gatewaywomen.bsky.social · May 21

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This podcast interview with me dropped today. I listened to it in the bath this morning- it's a goodie!

Square image with text 'The So Now What Podcast: Episode 169. With Lana Manikowski and Jody Day'. Photo of Lana Manikowski standing wearing red top and jeans. Inset photo of Jody Day with long silver hair and black and white top.

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Emma Palmer @bristolemma.bsky.social · Mar 26

‘Eldering in a Time of Collapse’, Sat 29 March 2025, 8pm GMT (Free, live & recorded). Looking forward to this conversation very much this Saturday - thx for inviting me back @gatewaywomen.bsky.social More info and registration below:

gateway-women.com/collapse/

An advert for a Gateway Women event entitled ‘Eldering in a time of collapse’ this Saturday.

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Jody Day (Gateway Women) @gatewaywomen.bsky.social · Mar 13

"As our world's natural and social structures continue to unravel, steady hearts, minds and souls will be needed to hold us. This has always been one of the roles of Elders. But in a society that lionises youth and demonises aging, what does it mean...?"
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Eldering is a verb

Surviving your own bullshit

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Mar 6

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me

In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.

thebetter.news

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Dr.DreadPirate ☠️ 🎃 @pnwdreadpirate.bsky.social · Mar 4

My wife shared this today. She is the best.

#poetry

Don't Hesitate, by Mary Oliver.

If You suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don't hesitate. Give in to it. It. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still, life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes something happens better than all the riches or power in the world. It could be anything, very likely you notice it in the instant when love begins. Anyway, that's often the case. Anyway, whatever it is, don't be afraid of its plenty. Joy is not made to be a crumb.

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John Paul Newman @johnpaulnewman.bsky.social · Feb 28

Winston Churchill visiting the White House in 1942. Not wearing a suit. #SlavaUkraïni 🇺🇦

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Jody Day (Gateway Women) @gatewaywomen.bsky.social · Feb 25

Will review for you! I know how much of a difference they make x

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Jody Day (Gateway Women) @gatewaywomen.bsky.social · Feb 24

Did my bit. Lovely mental & emotional holiday, thank you. Great characters and cracking plot .

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Feb 22

In praise of complexity and beauty and all the times they're the same thing.

Gate's poem is here. www.davidgatepoet.com/store/p/0vcw...

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Jody Day (Gateway Women) @gatewaywomen.bsky.social · Feb 22

Congratulations! 🙌

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F.L. Everett @fliceverett.bsky.social · Feb 21

I COULD get in the top ten... if a few more people bought my lovely escapist book for 99p...That would be your good deed for the day, AND you'll get a really good read!
🙏 ❤️ 🙏 ❤️
geni.us/B0DMP344XWau...

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · Feb 20

Don't think single people get enough credit for doing life alone. Rent/mortgage is double, household responsibility and life admin is down to one person, you're your own emotional support, holidays are more expensive, you've to trap and transport human sacrifices for the solstice bonfire solo, etc.

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Singlehood Australia @singlehoodaus.bsky.social · Feb 12

A considered piece by Yuthika Girme at Simon Frazer University, Canada.

Is it time we cancelled Valentine’s Day?

Consider how you can celebrate love in more authentic and inclusive ways.

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Jody Day (Gateway Women) @gatewaywomen.bsky.social · Feb 13

For Valentine's Day, let's remember that LOVE is a liberatory energy. "Let’s liberate love, and each other, any and every way we can." Free to read at jodyday.substack.com/p/lets-flood...

Left - female Asian elephant. Right - Jody Day, author of the piece is stroking the elephant's mouth under her trunk. In the background are the mountains of northern Thailand. Photo taken at Doilim Elephant Sanctuary. Overlaid with the tittle of Substack essay "Let's flood the zone with love: liberate your heart this Valentine's Day" and the URL jodyday.substack.com

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Jody Day (Gateway Women) @gatewaywomen.bsky.social · Feb 13

So looking forward to my hard copy arriving in a few weeks. So much of this book has stayed with me, like a soft moss growing on my heart!

Heather Durham @feralheatherd.bsky.social · Feb 12

Additional thanks to wise women and fellow authors Jody Day @gatewaywomen.bsky.social , Laura Pritchett, Sarri Gilman, and Iris Graville for having my back (cover). It takes a village to launch a memoir.

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Jody Day (Gateway Women) @gatewaywomen.bsky.social · Feb 12

Indeed! Ireland can be a very tough crowd for single (and non-mother) women!

Jody Day (Gateway Women) @gatewaywomen.bsky.social · Feb 12

I'm away from Ireland right now, but would love to have heard the jaws dropping the floor for this segment!

Karen Sugrue 🏳️‍⚧️🌈🇵🇸 @karsugrue.bsky.social · Feb 12

Brilliant to chat to @newstalkfm.bsky.social about research showing single women are happier, healthier, have more friends, better relationships with their families, more fun, more orgasms, & aren’t looking for partners

Whereas single men report being unhappy & hate being single

#NTBK

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Jody Day (Gateway Women) @gatewaywomen.bsky.social · Feb 12

Ye Gods! Get well soon xxx

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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · Feb 11

This is good.

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Jody Day (Gateway Women) @gatewaywomen.bsky.social · Feb 9

Have you had coaching at work around a 'CSI' - 'concealable stigmatised identity' such as sexual orientation, illness, disability, neurodiversity, hidden ethnicity, class, parental status, gender identity, religion, etc?

Interviewees needed for PhD research.

Email Sophia [email protected]

An opportunity to participate in research about how coaching can help individuals with concealable
stigmatised identities navigate inclusivity issues in the workplace.
“Concealable stigmatised identity” (CSI) is a term used in literature to describe a part of a person' s identity which can be kept hidden from others, and which is socially stigmatized, devalued and negatively stereotyped.
Examples include sexual orientation, illness, disability, neurodiversity, hidden ethnicity, class, parental status,
gender identity, religion. The research will use the term ‘CSI’ because it is used in the literature, it is not intended to label individuals.
Concealing information to avoid stigma can interfere with a person’s ability to authentically be themselves, contrasting with rhetoric about bringing one’s whole self to work. Coaching for diversity has focused on visible characteristics, and the aim of this research is to explore how coaching can help people with CSIs navigate inclusivity challenges they may face in the workplace.
This research hopes to add to professional practice by providing coaches and coach educators with insights, in
this under-researched area, on how to work with individuals with CSIs in the workplace, and on a broader level potentially contribute to workplace inclusivity.

You may be internal or external to the organisation. The coaching did not have to be specifically for an individual’s CSI, but your coachee would have discussed their CSI and its workplace impact with you.
What does taking part involve?

Taking part involves participating in a 60-90 minute interview by Zoom with Sophia Andeh between January and
September 2024. All information shared within this research will be kept strictly confidential (subject to legal limitations).
If you have any questions, or to obtain a participant information sheet, please email Sophia at 18024638@brookes.ac.uk

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Jody Day (Gateway Women) @gatewaywomen.bsky.social · Feb 8

What a lovely surprise to see my book popping up here! You have cheered me no end!

Fiona @bibliodufi.bsky.social · Feb 7

Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

11/20

#BookSky #BookChallenge

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TruBlu 🌊🌊🌊 @trublu268.bsky.social · Feb 8

In honor of black inventors.

#BlackHistoryMonth

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