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How to thrive in 2025

Posted on January 4, 2025 by Katherine Baldwin

I’d love to support you to thrive in 2025 so this is an invitation to come and join me at my new blogging home, ‘From Midlife With Love’ on Substack, if you haven’t already done so. I already have a … Continue reading →

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Welcome to ‘From Midlife with Love’ – on Substack

Posted on July 22, 2024 by Katherine Baldwin

Dear Readers, Firstly, a huge thank you for being here, for reading me and for supporting my writing. I know some of you have been following me since ‘From Forty With Love’ first launched, thirteen years ago now, and I’m … Continue reading →

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Loving You Is the Right Thing to Do

Posted on February 14, 2024 by Katherine Baldwin

Welcome to Love Day, otherwise known as Valentine’s Day. Today is an opportunity to shower yourself in love and compassion and to send messages of love to those who need them the most. I was doing some journaling earlier, as … Continue reading →

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You stole my light

Posted on November 23, 2023 by Katherine Baldwin

You stole my light Dimmed it Shrouded it Crowded it out You stole my voice Silenced it Censored it Switched it to mute You stole my space Seized it Encroached on it Squeezed me small You stole my spirit Quashed … Continue reading →

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I belong to myself

Posted on November 17, 2023 by Katherine Baldwin

When some of our fundamental needs go unmet in our childhoods, we emerge into adulthood with a hunger or a craving for those needs to be met. We then seek out ways to get those needs met, often harming ourselves … Continue reading →

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Facing fears and moving forwards

Posted on July 4, 2023 by Katherine Baldwin

Do you drive with one foot on the accelerator and one foot on the brake? I imagine the answer is ‘No’ because if you did, you wouldn’t get anywhere. Yet that’s how many of us run our lives, run our … Continue reading →

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Overcoming overeating

Posted on April 19, 2023 by Katherine Baldwin

If you overeat on your feelings, you are not alone. I spent several decades overeating on my feelings and although I have been on a remarkable healing journey over the last 20 years – finding freedom from food and body … Continue reading →

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Why is self-love such a struggle?

Posted on January 31, 2023 by Katherine Baldwin

This blog is going to be brief because I’m trying to practise self-love and that means not spending too long sat in a chair staring at a bright screen, but I imagine it’ll end up longer than I intended because … Continue reading →

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Coping with Christmas when life hasn’t gone to plan

Posted on December 16, 2022 by Katherine Baldwin

If you’re feeling busy and stressed right now, that’s because the run-up to Christmas, for many of us, is a busy and stressful time. It might also be because feeling busy and stressed and doing too much are convenient ways … Continue reading →

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Why do I leave everything to the last minute?

Posted on October 12, 2022 by Katherine Baldwin

I wonder if I’ll ever change. OK, so I’ve changed a lot over the years, transformed in many ways, as this blog attests, but will I ever change my last minute dot com nature? Earlier this week, just days before … Continue reading →

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