The Midlife Butterfly Journal

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Midlife is such an interesting space to arrive into. Like a sunrise that suddenly pops up, there you are. Fifty. Or maybe before. Or maybe after.

For me, menopause waved like a ch...

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Noticing is not the goal. It is the doorway.

We often think that learning to slow down and notice what is happening around us is about calming our nervous systems, or what is often ...

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Landing, Listening, and Learning to Live Differently

I have been back in Australia for almost six weeks now. That time has passed incredibly quickly and yet, somehow, not at all. It...

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As we move toward Christmas Eve, I find myself back in Australia, but not in a place that feels like home yet. I’m watching a different community prepare for the holidays, smaller an...

Beginning again in midlife is not a clean, painless journey.

You see the beauty and you feel the discomfort.
Two sides revealing themselves at once and eventually, you learn how to breathe between the...

Have you ever had a moment where you didn’t have the answers yet… but your whole body knew something had shifted?

As I sat on that ferry to Salerno watching the beautiful pink full moon rise behind t...

You know those mornings when you wake after a storm, the air feels fresh, there’s a little mess all around, but somehow everything feels lighter?

That was me after those forty-eight hours.

Sti...

 Have you ever gone on a trip to escape, only to discover it was never about the place at all?

I arrived in Italy full of energy… well, I thought so anyway.
Naples had filled me with that rush of poss...

Have you ever met a lifelong friend in a tree? I have. 🌳

Her name was Kerry, and we were both in China. The pine scratched our arms; the heat, the crowds, the noise — all for Confucius’ birthday. And...

Did you go backpacking at 18 or in your 20s? Or maybe you missed out? For many, that adventure is almost expected — a rite of passage before university or starting a career. That “gap year” is cele...

At 54, I’ve learned that time is a bit of a trickster, you can’t quite catch the pace it feels.

Tik tok.
It sometimes feels like it speeds up, other times it feels like it has slowed down. But, did y...

Call me crazy, but honestly — there are moments on the road, and in life, when you just know you’re being guided.

Not something like a perfectly timed shooting star… though that sounds pretty cool......