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Festive Season or Christmas
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How to enjoy the holiday season without the stress, overwhelm, ´hangover´!

How to have a more mindful or conscious holiday season that won´t wreck your mental or physical health. As the holiday season approaches, midlife women often find themselves navigating a whirlwind of festivities (including organising it all), delicious treats, and celebratory libations. Yes, it is also a time for joy, celebration, family, but, from my […]

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What almost everyone gets wrong about midlife

Exposing 4 myths and misinformation about midlife. Contrary to popular belief, many people experience increased happiness and life satisfaction during midlife. Would you agree? From my personal experience I certainly feel freer to do things and care a bit less about what people think now I am 50 (but it is still a work in […]

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How to Stop Being a People Pleaser

Understanding the People Pleasing Phenomenon People pleasing is pretty common, especially amongst us women. In fact, perhaps unsurprisingly approximately 85% of people-pleasers are women. So what is people pleasing? Prioritising others, doing or saying what we ´think´ we should do and generally thinking about everyone else. People pleasing is a behavior pattern in which individuals […]

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Conscious Connection

One of the great things about having lived in a few different countries is that you have friends all over the world. One of the not so great things about having lived in a few different countries is that you have friends all over the world. It is obviously wonderful in so many ways to […]

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Feeling Peripheral

I don’t think I am alone, but sometimes it feels lonely. Maybe that’s life. We all feel lonely sometimes. But the pandemic has certainly heightened and exacerbated any loneliness or isolation we might have felt beforehand. As Sheryl Paul so eloquently puts it: “There’s a fundamental loneliness that is part of the fabric of being […]

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Time to break out of our bubbles?

I don’t know about you, but I feel like I am turning into a bit of a hermit. Yes, I might live with my husband and two kids and speak to a few people online, meet a friend for an occasional walk maybe; Apart from that not a lot else. The rest of my social […]

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23 Tips to Help Expats Strengthen Their Relationships

How can you strengthen your relationship with your partner whilst living abroad? Whether you are a living overseas or not, it will probably come as no surprise that according to experts strong close romantic and social relationships are more likely to lead to being very happy and also to living longer.   Obviously they can […]

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Are our relationships in a pandemic rut?

The reality of our relationships (whether together or apart) in a pandemic. With us now being over 10 months into the pandemic, it is safe to say that many of us are on autopilot and navigating the day to day as best we can.  Whilst the rules and recommendations from country to country or even […]

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