A therapist's guide to finding midlife joy with Julia Samuel
Postcards From Midlife
Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
From coping with meno rage to getting out of a mindset rut, plus the power of setting family boundaries and saying no, best-selling author and psychotherapist Julia Samuel shares the emotional tools every woman needs in midlife.
Plus: Culture Club - Trish & Lorraine’s round up of the books, films & TV shows to look at now; re-entry fashion - how to reboot your wardrobe and a nostalgic look back at 90s clubbing days
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| 0:00.0 | Lorraine, I'm very excited something a moment has happened this week. I think when you say you're |
| 0:05.2 | very excited, it's often the opposite of what I would consider very exciting. What is it, Trish? |
| 0:10.8 | Well, the swifts are back. Who are they? As for the cartoon characters, what are they? |
| 0:16.5 | They're the birds that fly in the sky. I actually bird. God. What is the twitching? Is that what you're |
| 0:22.0 | doing now? Well, I was in the shower and I could see out the top of the window and I could see |
| 0:26.0 | it there floating around in the sky and I thought, oh my goodness, they're back. Because you know |
| 0:31.0 | what they do? They winter in Africa. They winter in Africa. Like the royals. Like the royals |
| 0:38.8 | in Kenya or wherever. They winter in Africa and then they come back to ones worth |
| 0:44.5 | in the same time, just in time for my birthday. My little birthday swifts, I like to think of them as |
| 0:50.4 | I don't think that's very exciting. But how can you not like swifts, Lorraine? Well, how do you |
| 0:56.5 | know this with Stephen? I don't take a lot of knowledge to kind of, you know, a couple of episodes |
| 1:03.1 | of Springwatch and you're laughing, you know. I wouldn't even want that knowledge in my head |
| 1:07.2 | because I'd be out somewhere exciting and someone would just mention birds and I'd know about them |
| 1:12.3 | and then they'd look at me and they'd say, well, she's old, isn't she? Welcome to my world. |
| 1:19.9 | Hello. Welcome to Postcards from Midlife. I'm Lorraine Candy. I'm Trish Halpin and we're on a |
| 1:25.7 | mission to help you make the most of your magnificent midlife. We'll be tackling everything from |
| 1:30.5 | mind and body wellness to HRT and your sex drive. Lorraine and I here to help you have a stylish |
| 1:36.0 | second act and answer all your midlife questions on fashion, beauty, careers, relationships, |
| 1:41.2 | family and as always the challenges and joys of parenting teams. |
| 1:45.8 | Now, Trish, I'm hoping for a bit of calm in this week's episode and because it's been a really |
| 1:51.5 | busy couple of weeks, the phone's been ringing off the hook, emails have been pinging in, |
| 1:56.0 | social media has been, well, it's been endless, our social media hasn't it? It really has. Well, |
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