The Livewell Playground

13/07/2025

Midlife is challenging. Between caring for others, riding the hormonal rollercoaster, and questioning who you even are anymore… it’s a lot.
This isn’t just another yoga class.
It’s a gentle, trauma-informed practice that meets you exactly where you are — no pushing, no fixing, just coming home to yourself.

🧘‍♀️ Trauma-Informed Yoga Workshop
✨ For midlife women craving rest, regulation, and reconnection
🗓 10-11.30am on 26th July 2025
💲 $35

You don’t need a trauma history to feel the weight of life in your body.
If you're tired, tense, or just quietly yearning for a reset — this is for you. 💛

Send a message to learn more

13/07/2025

Midlife is challenging. Between caring for others, riding the hormonal rollercoaster, and questioning who you even are anymore… it’s a lot.
This isn’t just another yoga class.
It’s a gentle, trauma-informed practice that meets you exactly where you are — no pushing, no fixing, just coming home to yourself.

🧘‍♀️ Restorative Yoga Workshop for Midlife Women
✨ For midlife women craving rest, regulation, and reconnection
🗓 10-11.30am on 26th July 2025
💲 $35

You don’t need a trauma history to feel the weight of life in your body.
If you're tired, tense, or just quietly yearning for a reset — this is for you. 💛

Send a message to learn more

05/07/2025

By midlife, many of us find ourselves carrying layers of experience that we haven’t had the chance to process —old hurts, silent grief, persistent tension, and patterns of over-functioning or emotional disconnection that no longer serve us. The legacy of our experiences often begin to emerge in the body at midlife.

https://thelivewellplayground.com.au/2025/06/30/how-trauma-emerges-in-the-body-at-midlife/

Learn how trauma emerges in the body, and how to heal - learning to overcome chronic tension, pain, or a persistent feeling of being unsafe.

28/06/2025

You don’t need another self-help checklist.
You need real care. The kind you craved but didn’t always get.

At this point in life, we’re learning that healing isn’t about fixing ourselves — it’s about showing up for ourselves.
Every. Single. Day.

✨ We mother ourselves — with tenderness, compassion, and warmth.
✨ We father ourselves — with boundaries, protection, and fierce loyalty.

This is the work of midlife. It’s not flashy. It’s not always easy.
But it’s the most powerful, soul-realigning thing we’ll ever do.

You in?

17/06/2025

Okay ladies, I have a proposition.
I just finished reading All Fours by Miranda July and… wow! I don’t even know where to begin. It’s strange, it’s sensual, it’s hilarious, it’s uncomfortable. And I'd really like to talk about it- not just about the book.I really want to have a rich, juicy chat about MIDLIFE.
There’s marriage.
There’s motherhood.
There's changing relationship dynamics.
And there’s definitely midlife mayhem.
So, here’s my invitation:
✨ Come on a date with me to chat about midlife.
Let’s pour a glass of wine (or chai), maybe wear our comfiest (or wildest) pants, and talk about this bold, raw, and pretty complex stage of our lives. We can be unfiltered. Let’s make space for the conversations we don’t always get to have.
📍I’m thinking of hosting an informal, soul-nourishing chat. Just real women talking real midlife.
If you’re in, DM me or comment below and I’ll send the details.
Because this is the kind of connection we crave at this stage of life.
Honest. Curious. A little weird. And totally ours.
💫 Michelle

All Fours by Miranda July offers a profound exploration of midlife, challenging readers to confront desire, relationships & identity.

09/06/2025

Have you ever reached a moment where the old ways of navigating life just… stop working?
Midlife has a way of gently, or suddenly, asking us to put down our borrowed maps and learn to trust an inner compass.
This can feel disorienting, even painful. But it’s also profoundly sacred.
You get to redefine what matters to you — and what doesn’t.

What no longer defines YOU at midlife?

02/06/2025

Midlife is often a time when we may feel the old maps we were using to navigate life no longer fit, and we must chart new territory. And this can feel overwhelming.

In this month's article we explore how confidence and clarity can emerge not from certainty, but from soulful self-awareness, embodied presence, and the courage to grieve and grow.

With practical tools and compassionate guidance, it’s a roadmap for becoming who you were always meant to be.
https://thelivewellplayground.com.au/2025/06/01/how-to-manage-midlife-with-confidence-and-clarity/

13/05/2025

Why Your Stress Tolerance Shrinks at Midlife

If it feels like you’re losing your ability to handle stress like you once did, please know—you’re not failing, and you’re certainly not alone. Midlife is a time of profound change, and your body and mind are carrying so much more than they once did.

Here’s why your resilience is lowered at midlife:

Hormonal Shifts: Your body is recalibrating, and with it, your emotions can feel unpredictable.

Accumulated Stress: Years of “just pushing through” can leave your nervous system overwhelmed and exhausted.

Major Life Transitions: Marriage ending, empty nest, aging parents, career pivots, —your world is shifting in ways that can feel both freeing and frightening.

Old Wounds Resurfacing: Memories and feelings you thought you left behind may be coming up. These unresolved issues are asking for healing.

But here’s the truth: Your sensitivity isn’t a weakness. It’s your body’s way of asking for you to attend to things with gentleness and care.

As a midlife counsellor, I help women just like you:
• Understand your stress responses without judgment.
• Reconnect to calming practices that feel soothing and sustainable.
• Explore and heal past wounds with kindness.
• Build a more resilient, compassionate relationship with yourself.

If you’re tired of feeling overwhelmed or disconnected, let’s talk. You don’t have to navigate this alone.

Click the link in my bio to learn more, or send me a DM.

10/05/2025

To all the incredible women waking up without another parent to witness their efforts this morning:

✨ Your strength is undeniable.
✨ Your efforts are enough.
✨ Your scars are adornments, not blemishes.

Happy Mother’s Day, beautiful!
You are seen, valued, and loved.

06/05/2025

Why the Window of Tolerance Narrows at Midlife

This blog post explains why it’s common to feel more reactive in midlife—and how to widen your window again.

Read more here....
https://thelivewellplayground.com.au/2025/04/30/midlife-stress-and-your-window-of-tolerance-why-you-feel-more-anxious-now/

08/04/2025

👉 Midlife is an invitation to step fully into one’s own life. It is a time of reckoning, but also of freedom.

The tension between Gen X daughters and their Baby Boomer mothers is deeply layered, but it does not have to define the second half of life. The work is not to change your mother, but to change your relationship to her mother.

We owe it to ourselves at midlife to become the mother to ourself that we never had. The love, approval, and nurturing we seek is something we can cultivate within ourselves, we can learn to validate ourselves. The power of midlife is that we get to choose what narratives we continue and which ones we let go of.