Life lessons: from birth to teens, midlife & beyond
Postcards From Midlife
Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2020
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Joining Lorraine & Trish to share her life lessons, is writer, professor and nurse Christie Watson. Her books, The Language of Kindness and The Courage to Care are a fascinating insight into the world of nursing, in which she weaves her own life story and the lessons about humanity that she has learned along the way.
Plus: How to win at midlife - quick nutrition wins; those annoying what’s app groups and heartthrob nostalgia
To get in touch, ask a question or share your midlife story, DM us @postcardsfrommidife.com, join our Facebook Group, or email us hello@postcardsfrommidlife.com
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| 0:00.0 | Trish. Yes. What do you have for your lunch? |
| 0:05.2 | Cheese and bread of a variation. Did you have cheese on toast? Because I had cheese on toast, |
| 0:09.6 | which is very odd that we would be having the same lunch at the same time in different parts of |
| 0:14.0 | the world. Well, it was cheese. Cheese and bread of a variation, but it was cheese on homemade soda |
| 0:19.2 | bread. I don't even know what homemade soda bread is. Don't tell me, plain white slice. Yeah. |
| 0:24.8 | Mine was a toasty thing, plain white slice with cheese. And do you know what I do? Which is |
| 0:29.6 | so disgusting, really, upsets everybody. Marmite. Oh, no, no, I get that. Cheese and marmite, |
| 0:34.8 | but if a tangy loves to it. And because I'm on my own in the kitchen, I just lick the knife with |
| 0:43.7 | Hello. Hello. Welcome to postcards from midlife. I'm Lorraine Candy, and I'm Trish Halpin, |
| 0:49.6 | and we're here to share everything we know and have learned about being in our marvelous midlife. |
| 0:54.4 | Yes, we'll be celebrating the highs as well as laughing and sometimes crying |
| 0:58.7 | through the lows about all the issues that affect women at this stage of life from sleep and sex |
| 1:03.6 | to parenting and the pearls of perimenopause. In today's episode, we're going to be ditching |
| 1:09.9 | the Percy pigs and sharing the best midlife nutrition advice to shrink an expanding waistline |
| 1:15.2 | and help with some of those other dreaded perimenopause symptoms. We'll be discussing the etiquette |
| 1:19.6 | of WhatsApp, parent and friends groups, and we'll also be chatting to the all-round amazing writer, |
| 1:24.5 | Professor and Nurse Christy Watson, who will be inspiring us with her life lessons from birth |
| 1:29.3 | to teens, midlife and beyond. And don't forget, we love to hear your life lessons and midlife |
| 1:34.8 | experiences too. Either on our private Facebook group, on Instagram or by email at |
| 1:40.9 | hello at postcards from midlife.com. Yes, we've really enjoyed reading the threads on the Facebook |
| 1:46.6 | group and joining in with them too, while we've been away, and we've learned so much, and I have |
| 1:50.5 | to say, well, an amazing group of women you all are. There's just so much warmth, kindness and |
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