Letters & Lessons from the Courageous Middle
Midlife isn’t about reinvention or fixing yourself. And it’s not about rushing towards clarity because you feel you should have it by now. It’s about creating space to hear your own truth, maybe for the first time. Then taking one courageous step at a time to live a life that feels like yours.
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Why a Midlife Transition Takes Time, and You're Not Behind
You read the book. You had the idea. You've had it a hundred times now.
And you're still standing in roughly the same place, wondering what's wrong with you.
Nothing is wrong with you. A midlife transition asks you to change the way you've lived for four or five decades. That kind of change doesn...
Oct 01, 2026
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Redefining Courage in Midlife: It Looks Different Now
Earlier this week, I hosted a live Zoom masterclass called Courage Looks Different Now. I asked a room of women, most of them strangers to each other, to look back across their whole lives, notice a handful of moments that had asked something hard of them, and then circle the one that stood out m...
Sep 24, 2026
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How to Stop People Pleasing at Work
You've been the dependable one for a long time.
Someone asks, and you say yes. Or you don't even say yes. It just becomes yours, because you've proven, over and over, that you're the one who can handle it.
That's not a personality flaw. It's a pattern built over decades, and it doesn't undo itsel...
Sep 17, 2026
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