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

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...