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A huge welcome to my blog page
Thanks so much for joining me here. This is where I share my ideas, thoughts and experiences about wellbeing, midlife and all things living gently.
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Embrace the joy and fun in life and follow what you love
Pleasure and fun. Joy and laughter.
Has life got so buried beneath the chores and the routine, the trivia and the humdrum that you’ve forgotten to take time to savour the beautiful, the inspiring and the majestic in life?
When was the last time you could hardly stand for laughing, when the joy of a shared joke left you gasping for breath?
In this post, I’ll share my experiences of creating more time for fun in my life and why it’s been such a life-enhancing experience.
Seven steps to walking with ease perfection
The Art of Living Gently encompasses how we use our body, moving in a way that is softer, creating less tension because when we experience less physical tension, this has a huge impact on the amount of emotional strain we feel.
We can all sometimes be guilty of plodding, of shuffling along as if we’ve suddenly aged thirty years rather than walking with the grace and poise of a dancer.
But learning how to walk with more ease, with greater elegance, is easier than you think.
It’s time to be daring and brave and ditch the limitations.
Were you ever paralysed by concerns about what others thought of you when you were younger?
Have you noticed you care less these days about anyone else’s opinion about your life, your looks, or choices?
What if this were the perfect time to ditch the limitations and start being braver and bolder?
When you’re feeling jaded in midlife, rediscover your wonder in the world
Feeling jaded? Living with the “seen it all before” feeling for too long?
It’s very easy for this feeling of “same old, same old” to hit us in midlife.
In a way, we have seen it all before and it can seem as if there’s little that’s new and exciting. That tired feeling of “been there, done that” can be overwhelming at times. But in this post, I’ll share how to reignite your sense of wonder and awe of the world.
Where our experience of life (the good, the bad and the ugly) is really coming from
We’ve all been conditioned to think our experience, our happiness or misery comes from the things outside us – our situation in life, our health, our finances, our relationships. So when all is going well – we feel great.
But we also take it for granted that when difficulties strike, inevitably, we feel bad. The car breaks down, we feel stressed, our bank balance is low, we start to feel anxious.
But this isn’t actually how life works and in this post I’ll share where our experience really comes from and the transformative implications of this for our emotional wellbeing.
Is it time we learned to embrace the big, bad wolf of stress?
Is stress really as bad for us as we think?
In this post, I’ll share conclusions from the book The Upside of Stress.” written by health psychologist Kelly McGonigal which has huge implications for our relationship with stress and can transform how we deal with difficult situations.
The secret of menopausal wellbeing that can transform your life
What does wellbeing feel like for you?
It can encompass many things. It’s that delicious feeling of contentment, a sense that all’s well in the world when we literally want for nothing.
But as we near menopause, with all the challenges this time of life can bring, it can sometimes seem more elusive, a mere memory.
In this blog post, I’ll share the truth about where wellbeing really comes from and how you can tap into it whenever you need it.
Five tips to reignite your midlife confidence to make your life amazing
For many of us, midlife and menopause are the time when our confidence takes a nose-dive and we can start to question our ability.
We don’t have to put up with this.
Read my blog to discover five principles to help you recapture self-confidence and make the most of all the opportunities this time of life can give us.
What's the quickest way to effortless change without resorting to willpower?
You’ve tried willpower, every self-help technique going, programme after programme and made years of New Year’s resolutions.
But still that habit or situation you want to change hasn’t shifted. It remains stubbornly stuck.
You’re convinced that change is virtually impossible and you’d better learn to accept who and where you are.
And yet people do change and sometimes that transformation happens incredibly fast and I’ll show you could do this too with as much effort as taking a long, slow, confident breath.