To hell and back: Marian Keyes on how to find your midlife joy
Postcards From Midlife
Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Joining Lorraine and Trish to kick off series two, bestselling novelist Marian Keyes shares her remarkable midlife story. Find out how she is rocking her fifties after overcoming severe depression, accepting she won’t have children, redefining work on her terms and becoming a proud Botox and HRT devotee.
Plus: what to do with teenagers who have turned into summer sloths; amazing mascaras and DIY gel manicures tried and tested.
Want to join the conversation, ask a question or share your midlife story? DM us at @postcardsfrommidlife, join our Facebook group or contact us at postcardsfrommidlife.com
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| 0:00.0 | Hello welcome back to postcards from midlife. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Trish Halpin and I'm Lorraine Candy and some idiots given us another series of |
| 0:16.7 | post-coves from Midlife. I don't know who because we're not professional podcasters at |
| 0:20.4 | all and we barely know what we're talking about. |
| 0:22.6 | Anyway, what we're going to do is carry on chatting about all the big and small issues that affect |
| 0:26.8 | women in this stage of life. |
| 0:28.6 | Everything from insomnia to mind and body wellness, HRT, your sex drive, your career, and your relationships. |
| 0:35.8 | We're going to bust some myths and we're also going to talk to some experts on your behalf. |
| 0:39.8 | And as always, the challenges and the joys of parenting teams. |
| 0:43.6 | Yeah, we were really blown away by the reaction to the first series and all your emails, |
| 0:47.8 | reviews and social posts which have shown us that there's just so much more you want to explore, discuss, chat and share about being a |
| 0:55.0 | woman in your 40s and 50s. And in fact we had this amazing letter from Nicola in London. |
| 0:59.8 | Lovely. Lovely letter. It's a very good one wasn't it who kind of sums everything up I think about how I've been feeling about the last few months as well. She says, |
| 1:07.0 | thanks to listening to your podcast since the beginning of series one. I self-diagnosed perimenopause and took myself to the doctor who prescribed |
| 1:14.2 | HRT. I've just finished my first month and can honestly say I think you have saved my |
| 1:18.4 | marriage and my sanity. The thought of being in lockdown, feeling as desperate as I did in January doesn't bear thinking about. |
| 1:24.9 | I think that's lovely. We did actually get a lot of women contact us saying they were feeling really desperate. |
| 1:30.0 | They didn't know what they were going through and they listened to us and we gave them the facts and they did know what they were going through and they did get themselves to their doctors. |
| 1:36.2 | So thank you very much for that Nicola. Please do keep sharing your stories with us. |
| 1:40.4 | You can find us via our website, our Instagram and our new Facebook group, all of which are rather |
| 1:45.7 | handily called postcards from Midlife. Search up those and you can contact us. |
| 1:50.3 | And you can also follow our personal accounts if you so wish wish I'm at Trish of the day on |
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