I turned 49 this week, and it landed more than I expected. Not in a crisis way – but with that familiar tug of reflection. The last year of a decade has a way of holding up a mirror, and I’m not totally thrilled with what I’m seeing. I’ve spent much of my 40s learning […]
This Sunday, the clocks go back. At 2am on October 26th, we’ll gain an hour, though whether it feels like a gift or a theft depends entirely on how you look at it. When I was 18, it fell on my birthday night out. We got an extra hour on the dance floor – one […]
You know that feeling when you’re working harder than ever but still feel like you’re falling behind? Or when you tell yourself you’ll finally relax once you finish this project, lose a few pounds, get the promotion, or sort out the house – but the finish line keeps moving? That’s not you being lazy or […]
The autumn equinox marks the balance between light and dark – day and night equal, summer giving way to autumn’s first chill. In the garden, this is one of the busiest seasons: harvesting what grew, saving seeds, planting bulbs, and mulching perennials so they return stronger next year. Life offers the same invitation – gathering […]
Midlife often gets framed as a crisis – decline, fading relevance, hot flushes, a desperate cling to youth. But here’s the truth: your 40s can be your most powerful decade yet. This power emerges in early midlife – Not because everything magically falls into place or the challenges disappear. But because you’ve lived enough learned […]
I’ve always been an ‘all in’ kind of person when it comes to work. Give me a project I believe in, and I’ll throw everything I have into it. But somewhere along the way ‘all in’ became ‘all consumed.’ My self-worth was tied to productivity and achievement, and anything else felt like failure. There was […]
