Mental Health

Midlife for women brings its own challenges when it comes to mental health. Read about the challenges and triumphs we experience.

Eleanor's letter: Women supporting each other is a powerful thing

What Davina McCall showed me about 'sistering' plus how we can be better sisters to all women

The Queenager: Coming through the midlife darkness and into the light

Coming through the midlife darkness and into the light

The Queenager: The biggest risk in midlife is to take no risks at all

The biggest risk in midlife is to take no risks at all

The key to a fulfilling midlife career – mastering your dance with fear and confidence

We know mid-life is a uniquely challenging time, but it’s also a key pivotal time. The choices you make now really matter. Author and careers coach, Laura Walker, shares insights from her award-winning research and what you can do to help yourself master the next steps. 

“I realised therapy was less of a challenge than navigating your way towards it.”

Her own experience of traumatic mental breakdown in her family and her training in branding and communications then as psychotherapist has led Maryam Meddin to pioneer a new approach to mental health.

'I was living for everyone else but myself'

A straightforward question turned into the crash and burn moment that made Claire Pestana realise what was missing from her life: herself.

Welcome to the parent grief club 

When Kerensa Jennings’ beloved mum died, she became a member of a club she never knew existed or wanted to join, and was left wondering why more people don’t talk about the special searing grief of losing a parent.

'People think divorce is contagious – I don't get invited to parties anymore'

Caro Giles found herself a single mother to 4 daughters after her marriage broke down. She saved them all through 'a wild kind of mothering'

How Parents Can Support Their Child Through an Eating Disorder

Throughout her late teen years, Megan Ravenhall found herself in the grip of an eating disorder. Though she feels she has still not fully recovered, Megan reflects on how her parents' support led her to ultimately choose life.

How I got to grips with my chronic anxiety

Ilona Bannister suffers from chronic anxiety and agoraphobia, two debilitating conditions. But at times, her greatest struggles have also proven to be strengths

'I looked like a success but I was too numb to enjoy anything'

Helen Barnes on how she gave up traditional notions of success, concentrated on her family and discovered the joy of reinventing herself.

How learning to surf at 50-plus changed me

Danielle Cass began surfing age 50 plus and turned from invisible to strong and beautiful

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