Postcards From Midlife

Lorraine & Trish turn agony aunts & delve into their (digital) postbag to solve listeners’ dilemmas. Learn about ‘mattering’ & how it could be affecting your approach to relationships, how to move on from an affair, the six word question to ask yourself in any dilemma & what to do if your grown up kids shut you out

Plus: the card game that has intrigued Lorraine & up-your-bum shorts at the gym strike again
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Trish & Lorraine meet leading integrative health specialist Dr Tamsin Lewis & discover the surprising fundamentals for creating mind & body harmony. Find out how to protect & support your brain to prevent cognitive decline, tune into the signals your brain & nervous system are sending you, the health tests worth having in midlife that will boost your healthspan & check if you are suffering from adrenal fatigue. She also shares her 80/20 rule for living your best life & why we all need to add more fun into our everyday lives.

Plus: 4 books you’ll devour this spring & the YouTube channel that sorted Trish’s sticky hip for good

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BBC Woman’s Hour presenter Nuala McGovern on how to enjoy an extremely stressful career, getting up at 5.45am and how she stayed sane during the toughest of times. One the eve of Woman’s Hour’s 80th anniversary Nuala, 54, gives us a peek behind the scenes and chats about her remarkable journalism career that landed her the job two years ago. In a rare interview, Nuala also opens up about her childhood growing up in a Dublin pub, the impact of witnessing the Twin Towers attack & the raft of other ‘history in the making’ moments she has had a ringside seat at. She also shares how she met her hubby, living in the now tips & why you’ll always find her on a dancefloor.

Plus: Trish & Lorraine’s list of new fun things to do with friends and 3 controversial novels to get your book club talking.

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Trish & Lorraine meet the international best selling author to pick up the story of her life detailed in her new memoir All The Way to the River: Love, Loss & Liberation. Elizabeth speaks with moving honesty about her love story with her ‘wife’ Raya, their descent into addiction, and the rage and pain of profound grief. She also shares her spiritual learnings & life philosophies for our midlife years, including how to stop ‘purpose anxiety’, why gentle curiosity rather than one big passion makes for a more interesting life, why women need to stop pouring themselves into others & her experiment in ‘honest ageing’.

Plus: Margo the podcat turns 80, what to do with dreadful gifts & the mystery of the stock cube in the pyjama pocket
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Lorraine & Trish learn some surprising, reassuring advice & helpful tips from clinical sleep physiologist, Stephanie Romiszewski. Discover the easy morning routine that will boost your sleep drive & improve your sleep patterns in just a few weeks; spot the triggers that fuel sleep anxiety & the truth about magnesium, blue light, sleep tracking apps & the 8 hours myth exploded.
Plus: gym shorts - yay or nay? And the personality test which called one of your hosts “corrupt, evil and defective”!

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