CHAT WITH MICHELLE
Read: How do I shift my grief about life before chronic illness?

The primary issue I often hear from women is the profound sense of loss—of identity, the life you once knew, and the future you imagined for yourself.

It's also been a significant part of my...

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Read: Why I love ageing

I think we spend most of our life trying to work out how to 'do' life. I now have enough evidence to see that I made it through all the things that worried me in my 20s, 30s and 40s.

Here's what...

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Chronic Illness - How to ask for help with ease

When you live with chronic illness asking for help is often the last thing you want to do. And it’s the hard thing we all have to do. It took me a long time to work out how to do it in an...

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Read: Give yourself permission to ask for what you want

There are times in all our relationships, personal and professional, where things build up. Unmet needs or overbearing demands congeal into resentments, and we can get overwhelmed. I have noticed...

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Read: Never make a man uncomfortable, and other useless advice

Over the last month, power dynamics in relationships has been a hot topic for my clients. In particular, women have been describing what I call ‘the command’, where a man instructs a...

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Read: The World Does Not Need More Frantic Women

For the last couple of months, I have driven myself crazy creating relentless promotion and event deadlines (not to mention cash outlays). My daily demands (laments) were that I needed to promote...

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Read: Why healthy relationships demand all your messiness

Over the last couple of months I have fallen in love with a generous, intelligent man who knows his own emotional depth. Some of the fabulous aspects of romantic relationships are the...

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Read: Treats and Tantrums: Is your inner child running your life?

I like to think of myself as a mature adult. However, I know I make decisions and have reactions that are shall we say, are not the most mature option available.

I have come to understand how all...

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Read: Chasing More: the Anxiety Spiral

We often think about where we want to be – the next career move, next apartment, next loving romantic partner or the next time we fit into a size 10 dress. Once we get there, then things will...

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Read: Mastering Maturity - 6 Keys to finding your inner adult

In our culture women are not encouraged to be in their authentic, mature feminine self. Most of us don’t even know what that would feel like. Yet it is possible stand in your...

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Read: 'Stop Apologising': What those of us living with chronic illness need to remember

 

It’s time to talk about it.

I rolled out of bed one Sunday morning and made it as far as the hallway before my whole world started to swirl and I was falling. Logic tells you that once...

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Read: The Labour of Love

It has taken me years to come to terms with one of the most obvious truths about intimate relationships: that there is labour in love.

We have all heard that you can’t change a person, and...

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