Episode 76: Letters from Midlife: The Fear of Starting Over
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In this episode of Letters from Midlife, I respond to a tender letter from a listener who w…
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Episode 68: The Fear is Always Bigger in the Mind
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In this episode, I share how one simple act, opening my banking app, became an unexpected moment …
Overcoming the Fear of Change & Embracing New Beginnings
Change is inevitable, yet so many of us fear it. Especially in midlife, when transitions – whether in career, relationships, health, or personal identity – feel more profound, change can seem overwhelming. But what if we saw change not as something to fear, but as READ MORE…
The Emotional Labour You’re Ready to Put Down
There’s a particular kind of exhaustion that doesn’t come from doing too much; it comes from holding too much. Holding the mood in the room, holding the family dynamics together, holding everyone else’s feelings like they’re glass, holding your own feelings down so nobody else READ MORE…
Where You Still Disappear to Keep the Peace
Disappearing doesn’t always look like leaving. Sometimes it looks like smiling when something lands badly, nodding when you don’t agree, answering with it’s fine when it isn’t, swallowing the thing you wanted to say because you can already predict the fallout. It looks like being READ MORE…
What It Costs You to Stay Where You’ve Outgrown
Sometimes the hardest part of outgrowing something isn’t leaving, it’s admitting you’ve already left… internally. You’re still showing up, still performing competently, still meeting expectations, still doing what you said you would do. But inside, something has quietly detached. You don’t feel inspired. You don’t READ MORE…
From Hustle to Honesty: Redefining Ambition in Midlife
Hustle used to feel like power. It looked like being busy, booked, needed, and impressive. It looked like pushing through, staying late, saying yes, doing more than anyone expected. It looked like ambition, but if I’m honest, it often felt like fear dressed up in READ MORE…
What Changes When You Stop Over-Explaining Yourself
Over-explaining is one of those habits that looks like communication, but often comes from fear. Fear of being misunderstood. Fear of being seen as difficult. Fear of someone being disappointed. Fear of someone thinking you’re selfish, cold, too much, not enough. So we pad the READ MORE…
From Management to Relationship: A New Way of Living With Your Health
For most of my adult life, I was “good” at managing my health: I tracked, I planned, I adjusted, I controlled. On paper, it looked responsible. Disciplined. Together. But if I’m honest? It was tense. There was always something to optimise. Something to tighten. Something READ MORE…
Self-Trust Isn’t Loud, It’s Consistent
Self-trust is often sold to us like confidence. Like a woman striding into a room in heels with a bold lip and no fear, like a big decision made overnight, like a dramatic moment where you finally choose yourself and everything clicks into place. But READ MORE…
