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My midlife awakening: ‘Who the hell am I now?’


by Amanda Cassidy
14th May 2023

The mid-life years are the time for us to ask ourselves what is the life you want to be living. The problem is that the answer isn’t always straightforward

When Alana Kirk found herself at a crossroads in life, she realised that she had to relearn how to colour herself in. For too long she’d felt like a Russian doll, wrapped up in roles within roles, often forgetting the solid nuggets of self at the core. She called this time in life the ‘sandwich years’, women squished between obligations with our children, and then suddenly our parents. Midwife is often the time we reach...

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