I don't know about anyone else, but sometimes I need to get what is going on in my brain, out of my brain. Last week was a challenge on...

On approaching the last twelve months of my forties, I have been reflecting on the last ten years. So much change, so many ups and downs,...

Wintering has always been a challenge for me. Having been raised in the Western culture, where we “keep pushing through” with the same...

It’s over two months since I hit burnout, and life has continued its rollercoaster-like path. Awaiting a surgery date for my Dad which...

I thought it was just everyday stress of work - the pace had become busier, we had staff shortages then sickness then holiday season then...

Sometimes, words just don't feel enough to capture an experience. Photographs just don't do justice to how you felt in the moment. A...

As I have been navigating midlife, I have begun questioning what I actually want from my life, from this limited time I have in the...

Something has been bubbling in me for some time. I started thinking about it back in December following a coaching call with the...

A few years ago, someone described me as their “biggest success story”, and while I was initially flattered, it also made me feel a bit...

2023. The best way I can describe it for me is with this lyric from Meredith Brook’s song “Bitch”: “Just when you think you’ve got me...

I don't know about you, but this time of year is exhausting. Apparently, its frowned upon for humans to actually hibernate, but I have...

It’s hard to pinpoint when it started, this feeling of invisibility. Was it when I became a mother? A wife? Or when I became “old”? I...

TW - mention of sexual assault and rape. I find myself considering a dichotomy. I am a 47 year old woman who has lived her life in a...

What happens to our sex drive during menopause? Again, a frustrating search through various articles via Google leaves me annoyed....

Why do we feel so guilty? I have noticed I am feeling a great amount of guilt for thinking about my needs and wanting to express them....

I wanted to write something about menopause and women reaching midlife, and how even now we are supposed to “stay in our box”. I read...

April is Stress Awareness Month, and has been held each year since 1992, "to raise awareness of the causes and cures for our modern-day...

As a writer, I know first-hand that there are times when motivation is low, and the creative well runs dry. The first three months of...

Friendships are such an important part of our lives, aren’t they? They are a normal element of daily social interaction and having such...

Over the last few weeks, as the season has turned, I have made an effort to start "sorting out" my garden. When we moved house in March,...