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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....

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...

Choosing Yourself: The Ultimate Love Story

Feb 14, 2025 | Mind & Meaning, Self-love & Relationships

When was the last time you truly chose yourself? Valentine’s Day is often wrapped in grand gestures and romantic expectations, but what if we used it as a quiet moment to reflect? Not just on love...

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...

Make 2025 Your Best Year Yet

Dec 29, 2024 | Self-love & Relationships

What if your phone held the roadmap to your most intentional year yet? The media loves a good “New Year, New You” headline—like January is a magic button that hands us a clean slate. But by midlife,...

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...

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...

JOURNALING YOUR WAY TO ANSWERS

Jul 20, 2023 | Lifestyle, Travel & Adventure, Mind & Meaning, Self-love & Relationships, Work, Career & Purpose

Did you write a diary as a teenager? I did. It was full of the ups and downs of school life, family, friendships, and romance. Life seemed complicated back then, but compared with midlife, being a...

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