Midlife Awakening

It's not a midlife crisis, it's a midlife AWAKENING.

I reckon it's time for a rebrand of the quarter life and midlife crisis.

If you're questioning what the point of it all is, or you're trying to recapture the lost energy of your youth, YOU ARE ON THE RIGHT TRACK.

This life isn't meant to be vanilla. We aren't meant to be slaving away at our 9-5 and trying to squeeze our living into the weekend and our four weeks of annual leave a year.

We aren't meant to be handing our adult lives over to duty and obligation and then telling ourselves to 'grow up' when we feel dissatisfied and long for something more.

If you are experiencing a quarter life or midlife (or any other age) crisis, you are not going through 'a phase'. You are expressing a deep held desire for something more. A bigger life. A life that makes you feel alive, aligned and abundant.

Ok, so there are better ways to do this than trade in the family car and your partner for the cliched sports car and younger partner. Waaaaaay better ways to do it. And that road is likely to take you right back to where you started but with more heartache and less money. Who wants to be a cliche anyway? You're far too original for that.

A life that feels alive, aligned and abundant will look different for everyone but the starting point is the same: learn how to connect back in with yourself. This may feel challenging after years of learning how to disconnect from yourself as a coping mechanism for living a life that doesn't feel good. Go easy on yourself. Notice the things/people that make you feel energised and the things/people that make you feel drained. Start building in more of the energising stuff and reducing your exposure to the draining stuff.

Imagine how different your life might look if you were to do this for a week, a month, a year.

Imagine how different your life might look if you were to do it for a lifetime.