Lockdown Diary: Grief, Solitude and Acceptance in Mallorca
Locked in their home in Mallorca due to COVID-19, a midlife couple make the most of the moment, and learn to appreciate the real gifts of life.
Category: Midlife Strategies
By Kay Newton
Her ‘Roadmap’ Prepares Women For Loss of a Partner Through Death or Divorce
Realising that most women are left clueless about finances and paperwork after a spouse’s death or divorce, Nancy Juetten created the perfect solution.
“There Has to Be a Sense of ‘We’, But Not at the Expense of ‘I’” – Relationship Coach Heather Garbutt
UK-based life and relationship coach Heather Garbutt’s own journey has been one of overcoming odds and pushing on despite obstacles.
From an Abused Child to a Healer: The Remarkable Journey of Michelle Evans
Canada-based life coach Michelle Evans turned the trauma of her childhood into fuel for self-transformation and healing others.
7 Ways to Prepare Yourself for an Empty Nest
Are you dreading having an empty nest soon as your kids grow up and move away? Don’t let it take you by surprise!
10 Ways to Make 2020 Awesome (Without New Year’s Resolutions)
There’s no point making New Year’s resolutions that you will break within days! Here’s how to make the next decade great without resolutions.
Year-End Resolutions: Making a Daily Greatness Journal and an End-of-Life Plan
December is a fabulous time to reflect and make plans for the year and decade ahead. Two life coaches share ways to make it meaningful.
Looking for Midlife Mojo? Strengthen Your ‘Life Table’ in 5 Steps
Facing a midlife crisis? Here’s how to strengthen your ‘Life Table’, with four legs of health, connections, knowledge, financial flow, and a tabletop of ‘Thyself’.
Better with Age: How Two Women Launched New Enterprises Midlife
If having your own business is something you dream of, a great place to start is listening to the advice of these women who launched startups in their 50s.
Women Become ‘Invisible’ After 50, But These 2 Entrepreneurs Made the Most of It
Society invisibilises older women, but these divas have turned age and invisibility into a career opportunity, turning life’s lemons into lemonade.
Are You Making Conscious Choices, or Running on ‘Default’? Three Life Coaches Share Tips
Even not choosing is choosing by default. Are you making conscious choices or unconscious ones? Three international facilitators share their experiences with Kay Newton.
From Suffering to Success: Two Women Share Their Secrets of Being ‘In the Flow’
When we’re ‘out of flow’, we are stressed and lack energy and purpose. How do we get ‘in the flow’? Two women share their experiences.
Travel with Self-Growth? These 4 Women Host Retreats Around the World
If spending time getting to know yourself better, making new friends and trying a new destination appeal to you, then here are a few retreats and hostesses you should know about.
A Group of Earth Lovers, and an Ambitious Plan to Save the Planet
From combing the oceans of plastic waste, to creating healthy chocolates and promoting sustainable luxury, these people are out to help the Earth, finds Kay Newton.
How to Clear the Clutter in Your Life Using Thoughts, Voice and Action
In order to bring the new into our lives, we have to let go of the old. Kay Newton shares new ideas for cleaning out all levels.
3 Women Share How Compound Action Transformed Their Lives
The step-by-step advances we make everyday have the power to transform our lives and change our destinies, says Kay Newton.
These Women Expats Are Taking Forward the Traditions of Their Adopted Countries
Welsh multimedia artist Deborah Claire Procter and American spiritual coach Lyn Bishop share their experiences of living in foreign lands.
Five Generations in the Workforce For the First Time: Can We Make It Work?
As modern technology accelerates and life expectancy increases, five different generations are now rubbing shoulders together in the workforce, says Kay Newton.
The Gap Year: Why More Older Couples Are Taking Time Off From Their Lives
It’s not just a term used for school-leavers; even people in their 50s these days are trying out the concept of ‘the gap year’: taking a year off from their regular lives, rebooting and travelling the globe.
How a Couple’s Home-building Journey Became an Apt Metaphor for Their Marriage
When Kay and her husband first bought a run-down farmhouse in Spain, their friends thought they were mad. But over the years, as they decorated, renovated and expanded it, the process became symbolic of their marriage.
How I Used Lessons from Judo to Practise Mindful Parenting
Allow your children to find their own paths – like the practice of a martial art, it may just lead you to grow yourself, says Kay Newton.
Travelling Light: When Giving Up Possessions Liberates Your Mind
Making a big life change becomes easier if you ditch the emotional and physical baggage, and travel light – in body and heart.
Take the Rocking Chair Test to Know Your Life’s Purpose – and Regrets
There is nothing to fear in change, it is part of life. Try the ‘rocking chair test’ to see if you have lived your life to the fullest, without regrets, says Kay Newton.
How One Woman Finds Her True Purpose After Being Shamed for Her Dreams
A moving film she watched with her grandma and a humiliating moment in school led Kay Newton to her life’s true purpose.
