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Where Do I Need a Little More Space?
Sometimes we don't need an entirely different life — we simply need a little more room inside the one we're already living. This gentle reflection explores where you may need more time, physical space, mental space, emotional space or room for something that belongs only to you, and how even a very small pocket of space can make ordinary life feel different. Includes a beautiful free printable.
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What Am I Carrying That Isn’t Mine?
We can care deeply about the people in our lives without taking responsibility for everything they feel, choose or experience. This gentle reflection explores the worries, expectations, emotions and responsibilities we sometimes carry for other people — and how to recognise what is ours, what belongs to someone else and what we might gently hand back. Includes a beautiful free reflection printable.
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What Have I Outgrown?
Something can have been completely right for one season of your life and no longer fit the life you're living now. This gentle reflection explores the routines, roles, ambitions, expectations and old versions of ourselves we may have quietly outgrown — and how we might leave some of them behind with gratitude rather than regret. Includes a beautiful free printable.
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What Am I Doing Because I Think I Should?
How much of what we do comes from quiet rules we've absorbed along the way? This gentle reflection explores the expectations, obligations and ‘shoulds’ we carry — where they came from, whether they still fit and what we might be ready to keep, change or let go. Includes a beautiful free reflection printable.
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What Do I Want Less of in My Life?
What would you like a little less of in your life? This gentle reflection explores the rushing, pressure, obligations, habits and expectations that may be taking up more room than you want to give them — and what making them a little smaller might create space for. Includes a beautiful free reflection printable.
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What Do I Need More of Right Now?
What would make the life you’re living right now feel a little better? This gentle reflection invites you to consider what you need more of — for your body, mind, heart and yourself — and to look beneath the first answer to what you may really be asking for. Includes a beautiful free reflection printable from The Life I’m Living Collection.
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When the “By Now” Story Unravels: When Life Doesn’t Follow the Original Plan
What happens when life doesn’t look the way you thought it would by now? This midlife reflection explores identity shifts, grief, clarity, and redefining yourself in your 40s. A thoughtful essay on midlife transition, letting go of expectations, and making peace with the middle years.
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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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Learning to Begin Again
Learning to begin again doesn’t mean something went wrong. Often, it means something inside you has changed. In this reflective midlife essay, I explore why starting over isn’t failure — why so many of us quietly begin again without announcements or apologies — and how choosing a new direction can be an act of wisdom, not weakness. Rooted in seasonal living, real life, and lived experience, this post is for anyone who feels the pull to pause, reassess, and try again… gently.
