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The Power of the Pause: How Morning Rituals Bring Us Back to Ourselves

Jun 1, 2025 | Health, Fitness & Wellbeing, Mind & Meaning, Self-love & Relationships

By midlife, we’ve lived a lot of life. We’ve carried responsibilities – people, deadlines, logistics, emotions, outcomes. We’ve been busy, useful, stretched, exhausted. Good. Tired....

Finding My North Star (Again)

May 1, 2025 | Health, Fitness & Wellbeing, Lifestyle, Travel & Adventure, Mind & Meaning

It’s the start of May, and I’m finally feeling more like myself again. I’ve got more energy. I feel clearer. Lighter. Like I’m emerging from a fog. But earlier this year, it was a very different...

The Power of Showing Up in Midlife on International Women’s Day

Mar 8, 2025 | Health, Fitness & Wellbeing, Self-love & Relationships

Today, I joined The Big Swim – an event where 500 women gathered at Sandbanks Beach, Poole, for International Women’s Day. Together, we plunged into the cold sea to celebrate how far women have come...

Midlife, Uncertainty, and the Magic of Taking the Next Step

Feb 28, 2025 | Health, Fitness & Wellbeing, Mind & Meaning, Self-love & Relationships

Are you ready for some midlife magic? I’m writing this from my childhood bedroom, home for a few days to see my parents. They’re in their mid-80s now—still active, still living a good life—but their...

How I Started 2025 With a Love Note to Myself (And Why You Might Want To Try It Too)

Jan 2, 2025 | Health, Fitness & Wellbeing, Lifestyle, Travel & Adventure, Self-love & Relationships

How have you started 2025? With excitement, hesitation, or somewhere in between? Just before Christmas, I did something I’ve never done at this time of year: I wrote myself a love note. I usually...

Today is my birthday… and I’m doing exactly what I want.

Dec 1, 2024 | Health, Fitness & Wellbeing, Lifestyle, Travel & Adventure, Mind & Meaning, Self-love & Relationships

Birthdays. Christmas. New Year’s. They often come wrapped in layers of expectation — long-held traditions, pressure to please others, or simply doing what’s always been done. Without meaning to, we...

Letting Go: Creating Space for What’s Next

Nov 1, 2024 | Health, Fitness & Wellbeing, Mind & Meaning, Self-love & Relationships

Are you finding It hard to let go? Last week, a friend invited me to her home for a Samhain ceremony – a tradition I hadn’t encountered before and wasn’t quite sure what to expect. I learned...

Struggling to Stick to Habits? Your Personality Might Be the Missing Link

Sep 30, 2024 | Health, Fitness & Wellbeing, Mind & Meaning

Have you ever wondered why some people seem to stick to habits so easily – while you find yourself unravelling just days (or even hours) after making a plan? Then welcome to the club. For years, I...

Life’s Nudges: Discovering What Really Matters to You

Aug 24, 2024 | Health, Fitness & Wellbeing, Mind & Meaning, Self-love & Relationships

Life has a way of nudging us to pause and reflect on what’s really important. I received one of those nudges this week when I was diagnosed with genetic haemochromatosis (GH), a hereditary condition...

FEELING STUCK?

Sep 22, 2023 | Health, Fitness & Wellbeing, Mind & Meaning, Self-love & Relationships, Work, Career & Purpose

If you are feeling stuck, try journaling or vision boarding … or better still, a combination of the two! Here’s why! **Clarity and Self-reflection** Writing in a journal or creating a vision board...

Help for Women Facing Midlife Challenges

Aug 4, 2023 | Health, Fitness & Wellbeing, Lifestyle, Travel & Adventure, Menopause, Mind & Meaning, Self-love & Relationships, Work, Career & Purpose

Experienced Midlife Transition Coach, Lynda Brown has launched ‘The Midlife Slice’, a comprehensive support program of workshops, day retreats and free events to help women who are navigating the...

Benefits of meditation and how to get started

Aug 14, 2018 | Health, Fitness & Wellbeing, Menopause, Self-love & Relationships

Wanting to get started with mediation but don’t know how? Fab! You’re in the right place. For those of you who have been a little hesitant to consider meditation, please read on and let me try to...

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