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Still Becoming: Why Midlife Is Not the End of the Story
Midlife reinvention for women doesn’t mean a crisis or a complete reset. This reflective essay explores second acts, personal growth, and still becoming in your 40s. A hopeful look at midlife transition, possibility, and redefining success on your own terms.
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Our Little Friday Letter | Friday, 27 February, 2026
In this fortnight’s Little Friday Letter, I reflect on midlife recalibration, showing up authentically at 47, and what it means to quietly return to yourself. I share life updates from our little house in the country, gentle seasonal resets for late winter, simple weekly rhythms for busy term time, and the new March slow living calendar. A thoughtful pause for women navigating identity, intention, and everyday life in a changing season.
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Our Little Friday Letter | Friday, 13th February 2026
This fortnight’s Little Friday Letter reflects on continuing softly through February, midlife steadiness, seasonal living, everyday rituals, and slow rhythms at home. A gentle pause with reflections from the blog, archives, and small moments that shape ordinary days.
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The Lonely Side of Personal Growth – It Takes Time to Settle Into a New Season
A gentle reflection on the lonely side of personal growth and the in-between season of becoming. You’re not broken—you’re just not finished yet.
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From Deputy Principal to Slow Living Blogger: My Story
If you had told me a few years ago that I’d leave behind a 25-year career in education to write about slow, intentional living, I would have laughed. Life doesn’t often take the straight road we expect, does it? For years, my identity was wrapped up in my role as a deputy principal. I was dedicated to my work, my students, and my colleagues. I loved the sense of purpose, the structure, the challenges. But somewhere along the way, the pace of it all started to feel… relentless. I found myself constantly pulled in different directions, with very little energy left for home, for my family, for myself. The Moment…