What If Midlife Is Exactly What You Needed?

Send us Fan MailIt seems that, for many women, something starts to change in midlife. The life you've diligently built no longer feels quite right, and there's a growing sense that there's more to life than simply doing what you've always done.In this episode, I'm joined by Laura Hoorweg, a spiritual counsellor, psychic and medium, for a conversation that went in all sorts of unexpected directions. Laura shares her idea of the "two books of life": the first written through expectations, responsibility and conditioning, and the second beginning when we finally start asking ourselves what we actually want.We go wide and deep, from the very real pressure women carry to "have it all" — career, parenting, relationships, body, beauty and emotional labour — to the consequences of living out of alignment for years. Laura shares her own midlife career disruption, the sting of workplace ageism, and how sudden loss led her on a healing journey that completely reshaped her work and sense of purpose.Along the way, we also explore bigger cultural and health questions, including early puberty, fertility concerns, what these changes might mean for menopause, and how the second half of life could look very different to the first.Most of all, this conversation is an invitation to reconnect with yourself before you go searching for your purpose. We talk about meditation, intuition, self-trust, and why living your purpose doesn't have to look "spiritual" to be deeply meaningful.Subscribe for more conversations for midlife women, share this with a friend who needs it, and leave a review so more Rebels can find the show. What would you put on the first page of your second book?Visit our website to find out more about this week's guest.All of our guests, including this one, are included in our Guest Directory so that you can find out more about them and the work that they do.https://midliferebelpodcast.com/guest-directoryIf you'd like to support the show you can buy me a coffee!https://buymeacoffee.com/midliferebelpodcast