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Spring Clarity: Naming What You Actually Want From Your Work

Spring Clarity: Naming What You Actually Want From Your Work

There’s a kind of clarity that arrives in Spring that doesn’t feel like motivation. It feels like the truth, the light changes, the days stretch out, you can breathe a little differently, and suddenly the work you’ve been tolerating becomes… louder. Not because it got READ MORE…

Midlife Friendships: Who Grows With You and Who Grows Away

Midlife Friendships: Who Grows With You and Who Grows Away

Nobody tells you that one of the strangest parts of midlife isn’t your body changing, it’s your friendships. Not in a dramatic, ‘Real Housewives’ kind of way. More like… a quiet recalibration, a slow shifting of emotional gravity. The kind that happens when you’re no READ MORE…

Episode 98: Substack Live | Women on Identity: When Who You’ve Been No Longer Fits

MIDLIFE BY DESIGN: CURATING YOUR NEXT CHAPTER
MIDLIFE BY DESIGN: CURATING YOUR NEXT CHAPTER
Episode 98: Substack Live | Women on Identity: When Who You’ve Been No Longer Fits
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In this episode of Midlife by Design: Curating Your Next Chapter, I’m sharing the audio version o…

May: Flourishing into Fullness

May: Flourishing into Fullness

May arrives in full colour. Blossoms spill over gardens, the air feels softer, and everything hums with possibility. It’s the month of flourishing, nature in abundance, days stretching long, and life brimming with activity. For women in midlife, May can mirror that fullness: an urge READ MORE…

Episode 97: Curating the Life You Actually Want to Live

MIDLIFE BY DESIGN: CURATING YOUR NEXT CHAPTER
MIDLIFE BY DESIGN: CURATING YOUR NEXT CHAPTER
Episode 97: Curating the Life You Actually Want to Live
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In this episode of Midlife by Design: Curating Your Next Chapter, I’m talking about the quiet but…

Interview with Terry Tateossian, founder of THOR: The House of Rose

Interview with Terry Tateossian, founder of THOR: The House of Rose

There comes a point in midlife where the old rules stop working. The diets that once “worked.” The pushing through. The shrinking. The self-neglect dressed up as discipline. And for many women, that moment can feel deeply unsettling, because it’s not just the body that’s READ MORE…

Where You Still Disappear to Keep the Peace

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

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…

Episode 96: The Pause I Didn’t Plan For

MIDLIFE BY DESIGN: CURATING YOUR NEXT CHAPTER
MIDLIFE BY DESIGN: CURATING YOUR NEXT CHAPTER
Episode 96: The Pause I Didn’t Plan For
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In this episode of Midlife by Design: Curating Your Next Chapter, I’m sharing a story about somet…

The Version of Me This Space Was Holding

The Version of Me This Space Was Holding

I didn’t sit down one day and decide to stop writing here. There was no big moment, no announcement, no clear line in the sand, just a quiet shift; the kind that doesn’t ask for permission, the kind that simply happens while you’re busy living. READ MORE…