I am often asked, “how bendy”, I am in my midlife when I tell people that I enjoy Yoga. I am old enough to remember those salacious jokes about being ‘bendy’ from watching programmes like Friends. So tune off now if you are looking for double entendres in this post. In my earlier years I …
Celebrating the Older Woman on International Women’s Day
I am quite vocal in life. Being assertive is an important trait to me. But I cannot singlehandedly fight the very subtle airbrushing of the older woman in society. As I age I notice that the spaces where I was once listened to and enthusiastically sought out are gradually receding. No, this isn’t my imagination. …
Maintaining a Relationship Through the Midlife Crisis
One of the things that a lot of people struggle with is coping in a relationship when you are also going through a midlife crisis. It’s certainly not easy to handle, and it can stress you out even more on top of everything else that is getting to you. However, if your relationship is the …
Waiting for bedtime – My reaction to my menopause
I refer to this as my ‘menopause photo’ because I felt grey despite all that colour Being menopausal isn’t fun, it isn’t the making of me and it sure as hell doesn’t present pivotal opportunities from which to launch memorable midlife moments which I will remember on my death bed, one day. The menopause was …
Counting your blessings improves your mental health so get counting
During the first lockdown, way back in Spring 2020, I sat in my familiar garden but experienced an unfamiliar sensation. Sitting in my garden was something that I had done hundreds of times before but there was a newness to it all that day. An eerie silence hung in the air instead of the …