The Messy Midlife Toolkit
by Dr Janine van Someren and Vivienne Berryman
The Messy Midlife Toolkit is a podcast about navigating midlife, identity shifts, burnout, confidence, relationships, career crossroads, and the question many women find themselves asking: "What next?" Hosted by Dr Janine van Someren and Vivienne Berryman, each episode explores the challenges, questions, and transitions many women face in midlife, from the invisible load and changing identities to friendship shifts, burnout, and starting over. Honest conversations, practical tools, and reminders that you're not the only one figuring it out as you go.
Episodes
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Has Your Friendship Got a Use By Date?
The messy truth about midlife friendships Can you miss a friend and still know that the friendship doesn't quite fit your life anymore? We talk a lot about romantic relationships ending, but what about friendships? The ones that gradually drift, the ones we hold onto because of shared history…
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Is this it? Rethinking your career in midlife.
What if you’re good at your job, but it doesn’t give you what it used to? You don’t have to hate your job to start wondering whether it still fits. In this episode, we talk about why career questions can get louder in midlife, the guilt that can come with questioning a perfectly good job, and how...
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Where did my confidence go?
How can you have so much life experience, and somehow trust yourself less? In this episode, we’re talking about confidence: where it goes, what or who can knock it, and why feeling less confident in one part of your life doesn’t mean you’ve suddenly become an unconfident person. We look at the...
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The Invisible Load
Why can you feel exhausted when, physically, you haven’t actually done that much? Sometimes it’s not the things you’re doing that are wearing you out. It’s everything you’re remembering, anticipating, organising, checking, worrying about and keeping track of in the background. In this episode, we...
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Why we spiral: maybe you’re not the problem.
Ever found yourself snapping at someone you love, lying awake overthinking, doom scrolling, or feeling completely overwhelmed by something that normally wouldn’t bother you? When we’re carrying too much for too long, it can be easy to assume that we’re the problem. In this episode of The Messy...
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Rediscovering Yourself in Midlife
What happens when the life you’ve built no longer feels quite like you? In this episode, we talk about that strange midlife feeling of losing touch with yourself, when nothing is necessarily wrong, but something doesn’t quite fit anymore. We explore identity, values, the roles we take on over the...
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Who We Are & Why We're Here
Welcome to The Messy Midlife Toolkit. In this short introduction, meet your hosts, Dr Janine van Someren and Vivienne Berryman, and hear why we created this podcast. We'll be talking about identity shifts, burnout, confidence, relationships, career crossroads, the invisible load, and the…
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Introducing The Messy Midlife Toolkit
Welcome to The Messy Midlife Toolkit. In this short introductory episode, Vivienne shares how the podcast came about and some of the topics we'll be exploring in future episodes. From identity shifts, burnout, confidence and relationships, to the invisible load many women carry, changing...
About this show
The Messy Midlife Toolkit is a podcast about navigating midlife, identity shifts, burnout, confidence, relationships, career crossroads, and the question many women find themselves asking: "What next?" Hosted by Dr Janine van Someren and Vivienne Berryman, each episode explores the challenges, questions, and transitions many women face in midlife, from the invisible load and changing identities to friendship shifts, burnout, and starting over. Honest conversations, practical tools, and reminders that you're not the only one figuring it out as you go.
Hosted by
Dr Janine van Someren and Vivienne Berryman
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