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Clarity rarely arrives before we move

It grows through the choices and actions that help us find our bearings again.

The other day, I was out on my mountain bike in the woods when I had a brief moment of feeling completely lost. The turning I was looking for wasn’t where I expected it to be,...

The discomfort we feel around 50 may not be evidence that something has gone wrong. It may be the information we need to create what comes next.

Around 50, many women find that their tolerance for compromise begins to disappear. The responsibilities we have carried for years feel heavier. Relatio...

How confusion in midlife can reveal the life that is trying to emerge underneath the one you have outgrown

Confusion is almost inevitable somewhere along the menopause journey. We are shifting deep parts of our identity, and things that made perfect sense before can suddenly lose their shine. Wha...

The need to retreat around 50 may not be a sign that something is wrong.

It may be part of the transformation into the woman you are becoming.

There is something strange that happens to many of us around 50. We suddenly want to be alone. We want less noise, fewer demands and fewer people needing...

The transition around 50 can touch far more than your body.

Sometimes it asks you to reconsider your relationships, your work, your priorities and the life you thought you were supposed to want.

Like many women, I went through a dark night of the soul around 50. Of course, when I was in the mid...

Around 50, the question is no longer whether you can keep going. It is whether the life you are committed to still feels like yours.

I woke up one morning around 50 and realised that my heart just wasn’t in it anymore. There wasn’t a dramatic event or one terrible thing I could point to. In many ...

At 55, I have changed my mind about forgiveness, the past and the dreams we thought life had already taken away from us.

I will be 55 this week, and birthdays have a funny way of making us look in both directions at once. We look back at the woman we were, the choices we made and the things that ha...

Around 50, many women begin to realise that leading others means very little if we are still abandoning ourselves.

There comes a point around 50 when many women begin to question who has actually been leading their lives.

Was it you, or the expectations you inherited? Was it your own inner know...

Sometimes the years around 50 feel like losing yourself.

With distance, we may discover that an old identity was dissolving so a truer life could emerge.

There are experiences we cannot understand while we are living through them.

At the time, we are often simply trying to survive. We do not yet ...

How the 50 Threshold calls us into our authority

As we approach 50, many women begin to feel restless with the work they have been doing and the roles they have been playing.

This restlessness does not necessarily mean that everything is wrong or that we need to burn our lives down and begin again...

Why perimenopause makes it harder to ignore what is no longer working

Yesterday afternoon, I got bitten by a dog.

Before you worry, I am okay. I am sore, annoyed and temporarily less mobile than I would like, but okay. Naturally, I have also already turned the whole thing into a life lesson, becau...

How the experiences that looked scattered, difficult or even regrettable may be preparing you for your most meaningful work

For years, I identified strongly as multi-passionate. When I first discovered Human Design and learned that Manifesting Generators are often described that way, it felt like a...

How perimenopause, the Chiron return and lived experience can become the beginning of a woman’s next chapter

There is something about the transition a woman goes through around the 50 threshold that we still don’t have enough honest language for.

We have plenty of language for the physical side...