Midlife

Reimagining self care, self-advocacy and wellbeing with Suzy Reading just in time for the Holiday Season

If you're self-cared out, you've done everything right and you still feel burnt out

Nov 26, 2025 • Claire Fitzsimmons

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The Courage to be Cared for with Suzy Reading

Do you ever find that you are caring for everyone else, while trying to care for yourself, while wondering who is caring for me?

Nov 24, 2025 • Claire Fitzsimmons

47:56

Burndowns, Creative Energy, and the Longing for Real-World Connection with Liana Fricker

This week, venture catalyst and Inspirer-in-Chief Liana Fricker joins me as we explore burnout cycles, creative energy, and how real-world connection…

Nov 10, 2025 • Claire Fitzsimmons

46:34

Reclaiming Calm in a World on High Alert | A Conversation with Carrie Ekins

What if your brain thinks your inbox is a sabre-toothed tiger?

Oct 20, 2025 • Claire Fitzsimmons

47:40

A Library Made of Moments | A Conversation with Andrea Rathborne

This week on the podcast, I talk to Andrea Rathborne about the stories that stay with us, help shape our days and keep us connected to what matters most…

Oct 13, 2025 • Claire Fitzsimmons

45:37

52 Ways to Well: #4 What Qigong Taught Me About Moving, Mending and Midlife

What happens when you stop trying to optimise your life and start listening to it instead in a cold room on a Monday morning

Sep 7, 2025 • Claire Fitzsimmons

25 things I didn't know about my emotions until I hit midlife

Moving on from "I'm fine" or "I'm too busy to feel", "you're just so sensitive" or "don't be so emotional". On how to rewrite our emotional scripts…

Jun 10, 2025 • Claire Fitzsimmons

52 ways to well: #1 Dancing my way back to myself

Talking helps, but so does Abba. Disco dancing my way through anxiety, grief and fatigue.

May 29, 2025 • Claire Fitzsimmons

Friday Thread: There are some positives to being 47. Aren’t there?

In researching midlife and perimenopause I keep coming across this research: that 47 is the most ‘depressing’ time of our lives.

Nov 17, 2023 • Claire Fitzsimmons

Tonight in the Lost Together Book Club we're talking about Sharon Blackie's Hagitude

You can still write your own story in midlife and it might be more magical then you ever expected

Nov 9, 2023 • Claire Fitzsimmons

Subsnack #12: Five ways to go from here to there (and probably back again)

Midweek moments to feel better during midlife and (peri)menopause

Oct 25, 2023 • Claire Fitzsimmons

Looking for life in all the wrong places

We think of hiking Machu Picchu as a transformational journey. But sometimes it’s an overnight in London that awakens our lives.

May 29, 2023 • Claire Fitzsimmons

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