# Ep. 308/ No Stone Unturned. Jackie Shannon Hollis/A Childless Love Story

An episode of [Beyond Well with Sheila Hamilton](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1456050183), 29 Jul 2024, 28 min.

Audio: https://anchor.fm/s/fd90ee28/podcast/play/94381478/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2024-10-13%2F389766129-44100-2-2d9e9b760fa77313.mp3

Beyond Well No Stone Unturned.A re-visit episode from 2019.People are increasingly unsure about kids, and the US and European fertility rate is at an all time low. According to Pew Research, 1 in 5 people will remain childless. This week, the Beyond Well Team talk about the growing number of people who are intentionally childless. If you are attempting to decide whether to have children, this episode is for you. As a farm girl raised in eastern Oregon, Jackie ShannonHollis expected to become another someday. But, after several failed relationships, Jackie met the love of her life, a man who did not want children. In direct and intimate language, Hollis talks about her consideration of what to keep and what to abandon to make space for love. Her debut memoir, This Particular Happiness is receiving critical acclaim for its honesty, its poetry, and one woman’s ability to tell the truth about our most intimate desires.

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