Episode 35: The Power of Self-Compassion: How to Be Kinder to Yourself
Welcome back to Live a Well-Designed Life! Last week, we explored self-love, and today, we’re div…
MIDLIFE BY DESIGN: CURATING YOUR NEXT CHAPTER
Welcome back to Live a Well-Designed Life! Last week, we explored self-love, and today, we’re div…
Don’t hide behind other people’s decisions. Don’t let others tell you what you want, or what you are capable of. Explore the unknown. Test the limits. Design YOUR journey every step of the way. As human beings, we are constantly outgrowing what we once thought READ MORE…
Spend a few minutes pondering over the below questions and see what comes up. I get joy from talking about… Something I could do for eight hours and not get tired of is… If I didn’t have to go to school or work for a READ MORE…
A practical guide to using technology with intention, protecting your peace, and returning to the woman underneath the noise There is a particular kind of exhaustion that has nothing to do with how much sleep you get. It is the exhaustion of a mind that READ MORE…
I think one of the quietest ways we lose ourselves is by rarely being fully where we are. Our bodies are in one place, but our minds are somewhere else entirely. In tomorrow’s to-do list. In next week’s worries. In a conversation that has not READ MORE…
There comes a moment in midlife when speed starts to feel suspicious. Not because ambition disappears. Not because we suddenly have nothing left to build, become, desire or become undone by. But because the pace that once kept us feeling accomplished now feels like it READ MORE…
International Women’s Day always makes me pause, not in a performative, hashtag kind of way, but in the quiet way. The kind where you look at your life and realise how many versions of you have existed just to get you here. Midlife has a READ MORE…
Donna Power has spent years at the intersection of clinical menopause care, workplace policy, and lived reality. Having worked alongside some of the world’s leading menopause clinicians, including helping to establish the Marion Gluck Training Academy to train doctors internationally, she has a deep understanding READ MORE…
Menopause is so often spoken about in clinical terms, symptoms to manage, hormones to correct, productivity to preserve. But Kate Codrington, menopause facilitator, author, and speaker, has spent years offering women a radically different lens. One rooted in cycles, seasons, and rites of passage. Rather READ MORE…
Menopause is often discussed in terms of symptoms, protocols, and fixes. What’s spoken about far less is the inner terrain, the thoughts we carry, the stories we absorb, and the relationship we have with ourselves as everything begins to shift. Lisa R Triggs, widely known READ MORE…

I know what it feels like to have a life that looks completely fine from the outside, while something on the inside quietly says it no longer fits. That's why I built this. I'm an award-winning Midlife Lifestyle Coach, author of From What Now? to Watch Me, and founder of The Sattva Collective CIC. For over 15 years, I've been helping women come home to themselves and shape what comes next. More about me →