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Category Archives: Health | Midlife

Apr202016May 2 2016

How to Stop Smoking

by KatieP, in category Health | Midlife

If you had told me last week that I would be smoke free today, I wouldn’t have believed you. I was one of those people who had a massive panic attack just thinking about not smoking any more. I have tried giving up* before and failed miserably. I even used Champix and had a cigarette as… Read More

Oct132015Jan 12 2016

Why I’m handing back my Midlife membership card

by KatieP, in category Health | Midlife

In a few days I will turn 51. It is not a momentous birthday like my last one (and I’m not in KL to celebrate it sadly), but I have come to a significant understanding — I am not cut out to be a Midlife Lady — at least not the type I sometimes encounter online. Here… Read More

Oct72015Jan 14 2016

The Girl and the Unicorn

by KatieP, in category Health | Midlife

The girl had wished for a unicorn her whole life. She had seen the beautiful creatures in magazines with the most successful recording artists, models and actresses and she knew she was just the kind of person who could have one for herself. She also knew boys adored girls with unicorns and with one, she would… Read More

Oct12015Jan 14 2016

Eating Disorder Recovery • Six Years of Sobriety + Seven Recovery Tips

by KatieP, in category Health | Midlife

On a cold September morning in 2009, I sat in the bottom of the shower sobbing so hard I was almost sick. I wasn’t upset because someone had died, or was ill, or had been hurt in any way, I was crying because I had binged the night before and my morning weigh-in had shown the ugly… Read More

Aug272015Sep 2 2015

Why your self-love efforts aren’t working

by KatieP, in category Health | Midlife

After I finished writing yesterday’s post on the three types of love strategies between a couple, it occurred to me that the same principles apply to self-love. If you know how you receive love from others, you know how to receive it from yourself Many people’s self-love efforts aren’t making any difference because people are following advice based… Read More

Jul312015Oct 12 2015

7 Things No One Tells You About Your Fifties

by KatieP, in category Health | Midlife
Midlife isn't a downward spiral to the grave, it's a time of freedom and awakening.

The only thing more talked about on women’s blogs than children is The Change. Somewhere around your fifties, you stop having your period and start having things that they call Symptoms. These are physical and psychological changes that seem to have the power to wreck lives and signal the start of a downward spiral into… Read More

Jul142015Feb 1 2016

A Woman’s Essence • Replanting Trees

by KatieP, in category Health | Midlife

Women are like trees. As they grow in years they also grow in their power to provide shelter and to live in full bloom. Some people don’t like trees. Trees strike them as messy — they sway and grow chaotically against the perpendicular lines of houses and fences. Some people want to cut down trees, make them quiet, and make… Read More

Jul82015Jul 8 2015

The Birthday • planting lavender

by KatieP, in category Health | Midlife

The smell was overwhelming. Not the sharp sting of hospital bleach, as I had expected, but a sickly sweet lavender smell that clung to the folds of my sweater. The room was warm and bright, the large windows overlooking acres of rolling hills dotted with sheep. My father sat in a recliner chair, the upholstery made… Read More

Apr272015

V is for Vision • #atozchallenge

by KatieP, in category Health | Midlife

I’ve often wondered if all the hours I spent reading under the blankets with a torch when I was a kid contributed to my bad eyesight. I’m short sighted – I can’t see anything more than a few centimetres in front on my nose. Too vain to wear glasses, I have worn contact lenses since… Read More

Apr222015

R is for Rain • #atozchallenge

by KatieP, in category Health | Midlife

It’s been raining since Monday. A low pressure system off the coast has been beating down on us relentlessly, bringing with it winds gusting up to 125 km/hr. We live on a hill, right on the beach. Our dead-end street is lined with trees that have fallen over, taking down the power lines with them. We… Read More

Apr192015Apr 19 2015

The Practice of Self Love • #1000speak

by KatieP, in category Health | Midlife

Art is a practice, medicine is a practice, and architecture is a practice. Photography, painting, meditation, dance, writing, and yoga is a practice. What makes these particular things a practice? A practice is something that has an intrinsic (internal) motivation to achieve excellence both for oneself and for the good of the community. It brings to mind such… Read More

Apr72015Jan 18 2016

F is for Fat

by KatieP, in category Health | Midlife

When I decided to enter a body-building competition in my forties, there was something the trainers and seasoned competitors forgot to tell me. They forgot to warn me that once you’ve experienced being so thin that your tailbone digs into the chair, any weight higher than that will feel fat. So from my point of view, I spend… Read More

Apr42015Jun 28 2016

D is for Dad • #atozchallenge

by KatieP, in category Health | Midlife
D is for Dad • remembering Bob

He’s my dad but I like to call him Bob. When I was a little he used to say “When people say ‘Bob’s your uncle’, you can say ‘actually, Bob’s my father.’” In the photos I have of him when he was young, I can see a spark of mischief in his brown eyes. It seemed… Read More

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