From Low To Glow: How I Reinvented Myself At 60
Three years ago I found myself in a dark place staring down at my 60th birthday. I was clinically depressed and probably should have been…
Three years ago I found myself in a dark place staring down at my 60th birthday. I was clinically depressed and probably should have been…
The menopause: the light at the end of a very long tunnel and NO PERIODS, at least that’s how I’ve always viewed it, but OMG,…
The brazen use of drugs amongst teenagers is becoming a common sight within our local communities. They no longer feel the need to skulk behind…
They say there are five stages of isolation. ‘They’ don’t, I just made that up. Isolation is different for all of us, even though we…
I started performing burlesque at age 55, and I am now a regular performer on the London and Brighton burlesque scene. I began to learn…
I'm a single parent to a 13-year-old daughter, a nutritional therapist, and a former alcohol addict. I’d always liked alcohol a bit too much, right…
My greatest achievement to date was becoming a mum. Having my children has changed me. I found a new inner strength that I had never…
I’m fifty, the age when, according to French Author, Yann Moix, I become unlovable. As I apply my make-up, painting over my age-earned imperfections with…
Three years ago, in my late fifties, I walked out of my life. I remember waking up one Monday morning and saying to myself, “I…
It was the 5th restructuring at work in a decade. My typical approach had been to re-apply for a new role, usually a slightly bigger…
A lot of us midlife women feel like there isn’t a lot to celebrate once we’re over 40 but for me, the opposite is true.…
Ageing is like climbing a mountain but, despite what we’re led to believe, getting to your peak is not the best part. Once you’re over…
According to Mentalhealth.org ‘Mental health problems affect 1 in 10 children and young people.’ As I read this statement I can’t help but think that…
I have never been what I would call slim, say a UK 10. The only time I have been that size is when I was…
For four decades I lived what I considered to be a contented life of a city girl in my beloved Toronto. The only time I…
As the sun streams through the window in my room, I smile. Yes! I now have my own room, three little words that light up…
I read a very good quote the other day which said: "Motherhood is not the graveyard of your dreams". In fact, for many, motherhood is…
James Joyce used to call them “Epiphanies”: sudden revelations in which objects of common life become “revealing” of a deeper world. A ray of sun,…
I joined 'She Who Dares' on the cusp of my fortieth birthday. A women’s outdoor pursuit group, the only one of its kind in the…
In life, we have the ability to turn our stumbling blocks into, stepping-stones. In my twenties, life pulled the plug on my aspirations of earning…