Meredith Roberts

12/10/2025

December can be beautiful, but it can also awaken feelings we’ve tucked away - grief, loneliness, distance, old hurts, or the quiet ache of not having what everyone else seems to celebrate. If this season feels tender for you, please know you’re not alone in that experience.

There’s no “right” way to move through the holidays. Honour what you need, take breaks when you must, and give yourself permission to slow down. You're not alone in this. 🤍

12/10/2025

This may seem like a good idea, and easier than dealing with the truth, but it takes a huge toll on your nervous system and physical and psychological health. It’s healthier to face the issues or divorce and move on…

Back in the ’80s the divorce rate in the U.S. was at a historic annual high of around 20 divorces for every 1,000 married women. Now, that rate sits near 14. “Still, at parties, I hear women hiss their contempt for their selfish spouses,” Monica Corcoran Harel writes. One middle-age woman without kids in a decade-old dented marriage said she now only travels solo, to “take much-needed vacations from my annoying husband.” Another moved into her daughter’s bedroom as soon as their teen left for college.

Are women in midlife “subconsciously uncoupling” — and sticking it out in their marriages?

“If you ask the dozens of women — as well as couples therapists, a handful of husbands, a founder of a support group for ‘anxious men’ in sh*tty marriages, a co-founder of a writing workshop for women contemplating divorce, and a divorce attorney — I spoke to for this story, the answer is yes,” Harel writes. And, it seems, unhappy people are hanging in there way longer.

More than a few women told Harel they’re too busy to even wrap their minds around separating. “I barely have time to talk to you about how I’m quietly quitting my marriage. Planning a divorce right now is out of the question,” says one woman who is striving to make partner at a venture-capital firm.

“Right now, it’s much easier for a person to say, ‘I’m quietly quitting my marriage,’ because there’s language for what they’re doing,” psychologist Kathy McMahon said. “Many couples ‘quit’ years before I meet them,” therapist and certified divorce coach Mindy Walder said of her private clients in therapy. “They just give up. It’s like putting on sweatpants every day.”

Read Harel on how more and more women over 40 are choosing to just check out in their marriages — instead of dealing with the inconveniences of divorce: https://nymag.visitlink.me/zL9T_b

12/09/2025

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12/08/2025

12/08/2025

“Flexibility becomes less of a “goal” and more of a companion — something that quietly supports you in the background of daily life…

It’s a tender way of caring for yourself, a gentle promise that says, “The way you feel matters, and you deserve to feel comfortable as you move through the world.”

Even a little more flexibility can bring big rewards: easier movement, calmer nerves, better sleep, and a body that feels like a friend again.

12/08/2025

Happy Monday! 😆

12/07/2025

I know many can relate to this… ❤️

Into the final stretch of 2025, and I can feel the truth of what’s now past settling into my bones. A year designed for shedding what can’t come with us into the next chapter. Collectively & personally, it’s been a season of letting go — closing loops, clearing old residue, dissolving identities that once kept us safe, and allowing former versions of ourselves to finally exhale.

Astrologically & energetically, 2025 was never meant to be a year of momentum. It was a year of unearthing… purging… recalibrating. A year that asked us to get honest about what was complete, and to trust the messages of our bodies as they guided us through the slow, sacred work of making space again.

If you’ve felt unraveled, redirected, or quietly dismantling parts of your life that no longer feel aligned — you’re in good company. So many of us have been moving through this.

2026 meets us as a 1 year — a year of beginnings. A year of fresh cycles, new chapters, and life emerging from everything that’s been released.

Now is the moment the space created begins to matter. The moment the seeds you’ve been holding (but haven’t yet planted) are ready for the rich, composted, fertile soil.

If 2025 was the year of letting go,
2026 is the year of tending new shoots & blooms.

What left you this year wasn’t loss — it was preparation.

What feels empty right now is what’s making room for what’s on its way.

And the tenderness you feel rising in the cracks… it’s the sign that something truer and more aligned is already approaching.

Endings were a bitter medicine this year.
And here’s to new beginnings being the blessing.

12/07/2025

Let’s do this! 2026..

12/06/2025

12/03/2025

Your habits are basically tiny daily love letters to your future self. 💌

Show up like someone who knows they’re meant for big things — because you are.

Reset your mind, reset your life. 💫

12/03/2025

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There’s a point we all reach in life where effort has to match effort.
Where we stop pouring ourselves into people who offer very little in return.
Where we learn that loyalty means nothing if it’s only coming from one side.

That’s something worth teaching our kids early —
not to harden them,
but to help them recognise when a relationship is uneven,
when their energy is being drained,
when they’re doing all the crossing and the other person won’t even meet them halfway.

Because some children — the gentle ones, the hopeful ones, the ones who just want to belong —
don’t always recognise disrespect when it’s right in front of them.
They try a little harder,
bend a little further,
give a little more of themselves
just for a seat at a table that was never meant for them.

And it’s painful to watch.
Watching a child beg for acceptance from people who offer them so little in return
is a particular kind of ache.

But this is why the lesson matters.
To show them that kindness should never require self-abandonment.
That being liked isn’t worth chasing if the cost is their dignity.
That real connection never demands they shrink, apologise, or earn the right to exist.

Kindness matters.
Generosity matters.
But so does self-respect.

We want our children to grow up knowing the difference between being caring
and being depleted —
and that choosing themselves isn’t unkind.
It’s wise.

And it’s how they’ll learn to walk through the world with their head held high. ❤️

12/02/2025

Codependency is often misunderstood. Learn what it is--and what it isn't.

https://www.livewellwithsharonmartin.com/what-is-codependency/