Edit/Update 3: 10/28/2022 4p Central--I am going to wrap up for the day. This has been so much freaking fun and I look forward to the questions that will keep coming while I am in Vegas. I'll check back in when I can!

Edit/Update 2: 10/28/2022 1p Central--AAANNND I'm back! LET'S DO THIS! Keep the questions coming and I'll keep purposefully and thoughtfully work through them.

If you want to learn more about me you can check out my website: MaggieDickens.com I also have a FREE resource that has cultivated scripts for handling those uncomfortable questions, a place to start with giving yourself permission to live life on your terms, and a few other things to get you started living an Unapologetically Childfree life. You can grab that here: MaggieDickens.com/freestarterpack (*note, you will need to enter your email and will be added to my email list. You can unsubscribe & resubscribe any time.)

Edit/Update 1: 10/28/2022 12pCentral--Oh my! I am loving all these questions and I am taking my time to answer them for you. I am going to take a break to each lunch for a short time. Please keep your questions coming and I'll answer as many as I can before I fly out to Vegas this evening. I'll also be answering them when I get back. This is so fun, let's keep chatting!

Hey y’all! I’m Maggie Dickens. A licensed professional counselor and childfree by choice millennial woman.

I’ve been providing online therapy and other professional services specializing in supporting childfree by choice and childless by circumstance women for several years. I’m really passionate about helping childfree and childless women who are ready to ditch the pressures to become a mother and reduce isolation learn to live a more value-driven confident life.

While I can’t provide therapy or other professional services over Reddit, I am happy to answer general questions about my childfree journey, how I ended up working with other childfree people, the process/ concepts of a value- driven confident life.

I love getting into some of the reasons why & how even when we make the choice to be childfree or embrace life after circumstances led to childlessness, we are often still feeling stuck, unfulfilled, and lost.

It is important to note there are many misconceptions that are quite harmful to the childfree community. As in every community, group, and culture, there are extremes that are often the loudest yet smallest percentage. I acknowledge these extremes and do not fall into them. Therefore, I will not discuss these subgroups including antinatalism. I will also not debate the legitimacy of our choices or entertain questions that are founded in attempts to change my mind. Because I won’t. 😉

Outside my professional work, I am a proud and annoyingly basic dog mom and an avid traveler with plans to move to Portugal in 2023.

Here is my proof--not sure where it went: https://imgur.com/a/lywErsG