Get a positive midlife mindset with Martine Wright
Postcards From Midlife
Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Trish and Lorraine meet the disabled Paralympian and motivational speaker, Martine Wright MBE, who lost both her legs in the 7/7 terrorist bombing on the London Underground. On the eve of her 50th birthday, Martine reveals the positive mindset and coping strategies that helped her not only survive this near-death experience in 2005 but also helped her to thrive and create a remarkable life she feels she was destined to live. And she talks us through her midlife journey and how HRT has helped her day-to-day life.
Plus: getting into the groove with some midlife dance moves; the seven types of rest we all need, and a nostalgic look at teenage bedtime routines
Get in touch: hello@postcardsfrommidlife.com
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| 0:00.0 | Trish one of those things has happened to me again that you know this I've got a thing about |
| 0:04.5 | keys that makes me very very stressed whenever anyone gives me a key and says we'll just lock up |
| 0:09.0 | or just do that I know for sure 100% I will not be able to work that key. Oh so not losing the key |
| 0:15.1 | no I never use it I can't work a key and God how can that happen to me God knows it happens to |
| 0:20.4 | me so much and this week I managed to do something quite spectacular with a key that I couldn't |
| 0:24.8 | lock the door oh my goodness what stuck the key and you broke it you became off in my head |
| 0:30.4 | I just was standing holding the end bit he's the other bit sticking out thought that was quite |
| 0:36.1 | impossible to do but you managed it I'm not at the rock I mean I'm not really strong it's not |
| 0:42.0 | like I did it my super Hulk-like anger with the key but this has happened to me before I've |
| 0:47.8 | done it in a petro cap as well oh no what you do you can't I get covered in sweat for 10 minutes |
| 0:54.3 | fury and sweat and I had to leave and we've had to call a person to come and do it to this whole |
| 0:59.8 | key so you just left it do you have things in your life you just can't do no because I'm very |
| 1:06.0 | capable obviously and if I can't I just delegated to me because he's very practical well that's |
| 1:13.7 | you that makes me very close I can't better delegated to a man or I'm gonna I'm gonna come clean |
| 1:19.4 | here we stayed in an Airbnb last week during half-term and I couldn't use the key |
| 1:24.8 | well what I had to get into it but I didn't break it I just couldn't open it I'm gonna go on |
| 1:30.6 | a course I'm gonna drain my brain so that I can I'm gonna test every single key in every single |
| 1:34.9 | lock on a special course because people will be calling me to come and undo their doors for them |
| 1:40.0 | I'll have a cape I'll be like a key super hero super locksmith woman yes awesome let's do that |
| 1:45.8 | hello welcome to postcards from midlife I'm Lorraine candy I'm Trish Halpin and we're on |
| 1:53.6 | a mission to help you make the most of your magnificent midlife we'll be tackling everything |
| 1:58.2 | from mind and body wellness to HRT and your sex drive Lorraine and I here to help you have a |
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