ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
A podcast for creating practical calm in the messy middle of midlife.
This is your space to pause.
Because life in midlife is full-on. Between work, family, menopause, and the mental load, your nervous system can easily end up in constant overdrive — leaving you feeling exhausted, reactive, and overwhelmed by even the smallest things.
Each week, I’ll share my own tools, alongside honest conversations and practical nervous system support — to help you create more calm, peace, joy, and inner steadiness. Not by escaping your life, because that’s totally unrealistic, but by meeting it differently.
So when you're ready, let’s take a breath together…
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Average audio length:
39 minutes
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English
United Kingdom
349 episodes
since April 19, 2022
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
On this week's episode of Thursday Thoughts Lucy and I explore whether or not you see yourself as a lucky person, and how that belief shapes your experience of life.
We discuss how a victim mindset and negative narratives like “things never work out for me” can reinforce feeling unlucky, whil…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
On this week’s Thursday Thoughts, Lucy and I are talking about people pleasing, and what can happen when we prioritise other people’s needs, opinions and expectations over our own.
We chat about getting to know ourselves better, setting healthier boundaries, and becoming more comfortable with the f…
On this week's Thursday Thoughts, Lucy and I are talking about anxiety.
Most of us are familiar with worrying about things that haven't even happened, but what do we do when anxiety starts becoming a problem?
Lucy and I talk candidly about our own experiences of anxiety, as well as a few …
On this week's Thursday Thoughts, Lucy and I are talking about fitness.
We each share what our own fitness routines look like, covering strength training, Sprint Interval Training (SIT), running, rebounding, and good old walking.
Given that fitness is so important, especially as we age, we hop…
This week on Thursday’s Thoughts, Lucy and I are talking about optimisation, and whether our constant quest to look and feel better might actually be making us feel worse.
We’re bombarded on social media with advice on how to optimise almost every area of our health and wellbeing. Add in wearables …
On this week's Thursday Thoughts, Lucy and I are talking about our tendency to keep striving for the next thing, rather than appreciating what we already have.
We talk about the ‘hedonic treadmill’ - the idea that even when we achieve something we really wanted, the happiness it brings often d…
On this week's Thursday Thoughts, Lucy and I are talking about cultivating a beginner’s mindset, as well as the difference between fixed and growth mindsets.
In our conversation, we talk about how people often avoid trying new things because they're worried about not being good immediatel…
On this week's Thursday Thoughts, Lucy and I are talking about the ego and how it can hold us back from taking action.We explore how the ego often comes from a place of fear and judgement, making it one of the loudest voices in our minds. We also share ways to become more aware of that inner v…
On this week's Thursday Thoughts, Lucy and I are talking all about confidence and how to build more of it.We share why we prefer to think of confidence as a verb rather than a noun. Confidence isn't something you magically have before you start – it's something you create. It grows w…
On today’s Thursday Thoughts, Lucy and I are talking about comparison.As the saying goes, comparison is the thief of joy, but we can all be guilty of it to a greater or lesser extent. And it’s even harder to keep it under control in this age of screens and social media.Rather than comparing ourselv…
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