I’m not a fan of rollercoasters.  That slow crescendo to the top, that gut-out-your-mouth rapid descent, repeated several terrifying times is not how I choose to seek thrills. My kids love them, and while I’ll gladly roll down dunes getting sand in my knickers, I can’t do a rollercoaster.  More than happy to hold bags and catch vomit. Yet, I know from my own experience and from people I’m coaching, that many of us are experiencing that rollercoaster feeling (on a daily basis sometimes) these last few months. While this can feel stressful, it’s actually normal for life to feel like t ..read more

This was meant to be a Monday Mayday blog, but the sun came out and so I abandoned desk-bound jobs and adapted the priorities of my to-do list to suit my mood and the weather. As a Recovering Perfectionist, one of the most important gifts I gave myself was that one; to become less rigid, become more adaptable, and as a result, become better at enjoying each day for what it is, not for what I think it ‘should’ be. If you are anything like me, the Lock-down Lo-down last week gave me equal measures of hopeful and haphazard emotions.  On one hand we have a plan!  An end is in sight. On t ..read more

Another week of adapting to our new lives in shut-down, with our home, work, parenting, partnering, daughtering lives all meshed together.   I’ve kept up the MidLife Hacks – short 3 minute videos with some coaching and life skills to help us all through these days. Below are a one-place stop summary of last week’s: MidLife Hack #6 – Hierarchy of Care MidLife Hack #7 – Water the good seeds. MidLife Hack #8 – Triage the moment MidLife Hack #9 – Friend Yourself MidLife Hack #10 – Become an Influencer   MidLife Hack #6 – Hierarchy of Care  This is an issue that shows up time and time again in my c ..read more

As we enter yet another stranger week than the last, I’ve noticed that while everything is constantly changing, it’s interesting how quickly the changes become the ‘new normal’.  We humans are born to adapt… coming together by staying apart is us adapting.  But because I know it’s as important to wash our minds, as well as our hands (or keep sane as well as safe) I’m planning to release another MidLife Hack each day this week to help you through these changing, challenging days.  Below are a one-place stop summary of last week’s: Emergency Hack – What to do when you want to tear your hair out ..read more

This is a recording of my recent webinar on how to stay grounded when everything feels up in the air as it is for many of us at the moment! Here https://zoom.us/rec/share/_fVOdbK32GNLQLPX41HPBqE8N5_eX6a81SMa-aJbnhupJ8yK3t0Q7ux8vZ_ayHi5?startTime=1584705363000 ..read more

  MidLilfe Hack #1 Everyone needs a helping hand to get through the tough days. And these are tough days! So this is the first of my daily MidLife Hack videos which are 3-4 minute short, sharp hacks – tips really – to help in those moments of overwhelm and stress. First hack up is how to CIA the hell out of your life.  No, I don’t mean you call the Feds.  When something threatens to change our expectations of how something should be, we often spend most of our energy and time in the zone we can’t change – reality. But the sooner we accept the situation (we absolutely don’t have to like it), t ..read more

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The snowdrops are showing, a few eager daffodils are dancing, and despite the morning chills, Spring is definitely in the air. And so begin the social media posts, podcasts and programmes about the need to declutter, spruce up and Spring clean your cupboards and Inbox. Then in magazines – alongside horror headlines yelling for us to get Bikini Ready that make our winter bodies just want to retreat to permanent Jumper-wearing Land) – we get features on how to clean your closet, wave a magic wand on your wardrobe, and ditch the grey for the colour du jour, which this year appears to be a brigh ..read more

Hooray!! I’ve just turned 50! I’m most definitely not one of those people who like to let the big numbers pass by (or any numbers for that matter!) with a silent prayer. I’m a ‘celebrate like there’s no tomorrow’ kinda gal. I know too many people who never made it this far to be complaining, or worrying too much about my over-sun-scorched chest skin looking old (that’s not to say I’m not buying into the anti-ageing marketing bullshit anyway, and investing in exorbitant skin creams!). In fact I’m so glad to be 50, I’m throwing a party, full of people from all aspects of my life – people who ..read more

It’s been a week of shocks.  A week of emotions. A week where I really felt I lived most of its moments. Some weeks can fly by so fast we just catch a blast of breeze as it speeds by us, and at the end, we look back a little dazed, wondering where we actually conscious for any of it at all?  Weeks like that can disappear from our memories faster than a bar of chocolate in a house full of four females (or is that just in my home?). Then there are weeks like the last one, where so much seems to happen, days leave imprints on our memories like feet on wet sand.  Two news events happened that ..read more