What’s going on inside the mind of the midlife man?
Postcards From Midlife
Lorraine Candy & Trish Halpin
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Lorraine and Trish talk to their old magazine buddy and best-selling author Mike Gayle about what’s going on for midlife men, what they know about menopause and how turning 50 is an emotional milestone for them too.
Plus, generational parenting styles: how the way you were brought up impacts the way you parent; Lorraine models a chin strap; and Trish does some positive thinking …
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| 0:00.0 | Trish, look what I'm holding up on the camera, especially for you here. |
| 0:03.2 | Oh my goodness, it's a mug with us on the front of it. |
| 0:07.1 | It's a mug with some mugs on it. |
| 0:09.1 | See what I did there? |
| 0:11.3 | It says postcards from midlife and it's basically the kind of thing you have on a TV show |
| 0:16.2 | isn't it when you're hosting some kind of ladies TV shows my husband would refer to them |
| 0:21.7 | But you've got one and I haven't. I'm very upset. No, there's one for you. |
| 0:25.2 | Two for my birthday, one for me and one for you. Oh, one for a joint birthday, that's so sweet. We'll be giving joint speeches at weddings soon. |
| 0:33.0 | Hello. We'll be giving joint speeches at weddings soon. Hello! |
| 0:35.0 | Welcome to postcards from Midlife. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm Trish Helpin and I'm Lorraine Candy and we're on a mission to tackle all the big and small issues that affect women at this stage of our life. |
| 0:51.0 | From insomnia to mind and body wellness, |
| 0:53.9 | HRT to sex drive, careers and relationships, and as always the challenges |
| 0:58.7 | and joys of parenting teens. |
| 1:00.5 | In today's episode we're going to be talking to one of our old magazine peers from way back in the 90s, who like us began his career on teen magazines, but then unlike us, went on to become a hugely successful novelist telling funny and poignant stories about the |
| 1:15.2 | lives, loves highs and lows of a really interesting cast of characters. |
| 1:19.2 | Yes, we're going to be joined by Mike Gail, who's going to reveal what's going on in the minds of midlife men. |
| 1:24.7 | We'll also be discussing how the way we were parented impacts our own parenting style. Thanks though Lorraine, I hear you've made a little breakthrough on the sleep front this week. |
| 1:41.3 | Yes I have Trish, unexpected breakthrough, didn't think it would work, but for two |
| 1:46.4 | weeks every day I've been taking a 250 milligram tablet of magnesium because I think real kind of insomnia again not not |
| 1:55.6 | kind of I don't think it's perimenopause or menopause is not the waking up at |
| 1:58.8 | four it's the not going to sleep time not been able to go to sleep I would call it restless rather than no sleep maybe not |
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