About two years ago I started thinking about how every stage of human life has a name: childhood, girlhood, adolescence, adulthood. We have words that hold these stages, honour them, give them cultural weight and recognition. And then I started thinking about what comes next. After adulthood. After the decades of doing, achieving, performing, building, […]

Picture two women walking into the same room.  Same age, similar backgrounds, comparable careers. On paper, their lives look almost identical. One lights the room up. People lean toward her, conversations deepen in her presence, and opportunities seem to find her. She moves through life with an ease that others can’t quite name but everyone […]

How learning to trust myself changed the way I make decisions, protect my energy and navigate midlife. A few months ago, I found myself staring at an email about an opportunity that, on paper, looked perfect. It aligned with my work. The people involved were wonderful. The timing seemed right. The potential benefits were obvious. […]

Some books entertain you. Others completely unravel the way you see yourself. A Radical Awakening by Dr. Shefali is one of those books. I first read it a few years ago, but I continue to revisit it because its message feels so relevant for women in midlife. Dr. Shefali explores how women have been conditioned […]

There’s a moment, often in midlife, when people begin to realise they are not simply reacting to life anymore. They are repeating it. The same fears, emotional triggers and self-sabotage. An internal voice saying: this is just who I am. But neuroscience is beginning to tell a different story. For decades, hypnosis sat awkwardly in […]

This is one of those books that feels less like self-help and more like an invitation to wake up to yourself. I’ve been following @the.holistic.psychologist for quite some time now, and her work continues to deeply resonate with me. There’s something incredibly empowering about the way Dr Nicole LePera explains human behaviour, trauma, healing and […]

The first morning in Bali, I woke before the sun. The air was thick with frangipani and the ocean moved steadily against the cliffs below. Beneath the sounds of birds and waves, I heard something I hadn’t heard clearly in a long time. Myself. It’s astonishing how loud your own inner voice becomes when you […]

There was a time in my life when I believed that if I could just think my way through things, I would be fine. It’s a belief that’s rewarded in high-performing environments. Logic is prized and rationality is respected. The ability to analyse, to weigh evidence and to arrive at a conclusion are the skills […]

What if manifestation isn’t magic… but something your brain is already doing? There is a particular kind of scepticism reserved for the word “manifestation.” It tends to raise an eyebrow or get quickly dismissed as a bit ‘woo woo’. For many, it sits somewhere between hopeful thinking and indulgent fantasy, a concept more at home […]

There is often a gap between how a life appears and how it is actually lived. From the outside, everything can look orderly, successful, even enviable. The career, the family, the routines that signal stability. It all holds together, convincingly so. But beneath that surface, something else can be unfolding. A quiet dissonance. A sense […]