Notes on Skiing, Midlife & Capacity

Been cleared to exercise but your body still braces? This is the Recovery Gap - between medical clearance and feeling ready. Here's what's actually happening.

When oestrogen drops, your nervous system changes the rules. Learn how perimenopause rewires resilience—and how to rebuild energy, calm and capacity again.

Grief often feels heavier at night, when the distractions of the day fade and loneliness grows louder. Here’s why grief is worse at night – and gentle ways to ease the weight.

We don’t talk enough about those seasons when life feels untethered. If you’re asking ‘what do you do when you feel lost in life?’, you’re not broken – you’re human. Here’s why it happens, and what can help.

A decade of chronic pain taught me healing is about more than fixing the body. Here’s how three extraordinary physios and nervous system wisdom helped me reclaim movement, trust, and joy—and what every professional should know.

Some days, it's not exhaustion. It's just feels like you're wearing support tights that are one size too small. Most midlife women aren't burned out in the dramatic way - they're in a long, slow squeeze. Here's the difference between burnout and bandwidth, and why it matters for your nervous system

You’ve been signed off, but you don’t feel like yourself. This blog explores how stress lingers in the nervous system after recovery — especially for midlife women.

There’s a kind of grief many midlife women carry without realising it—the quiet ache of shifting identity, energy, and ease. This blog explores how gratitude and grief can coexist, how the body holds what words often miss, and why reconnecting with yourself doesn’t begin with bouncing back—but with honesty, presence, and breath.

After years of pain, injury and disconnection, I found my way back to movement—and back to myself. This blog is a reflection on rebuilding body trust in midlife, navigating chronic pain, and finding confidence not through pushing harder, but through presence, patience, and reconnection. For any woman who’s ever felt unfamiliar in her own skin—this is for you.