Resilience in your midlife- how could you increase yours?

I’m taking a deep dive at the moment into resilience in midlife as it’s a skill that my most successful clients work to develop and maintain.

Midlife presents pretty much constant curve balls and key to thriving is developing and maintaining the ability to deal with these curve balls- because they keep coming!

I used to think that resilience meant ‘not giving up’ and pushing on regardless of how hard things got. Now I understand that what resilience actually means is the ability to cope with the ups and downs of life. And I honestly cant’t think of a more useful skill for the rollercoaster ride that is midlife.

Resilience isn’t about pushing hard and relentlessly to the point of exhaustion. It’s about being able to ride the waves that come.

Whether its work pressures, hormones, money worries, anxiety, parenting, looking after aging relatives or an existential crisis, midlife has it all. And whilst we can’t stop the curved balls coming , we can definitely improve our ability to cope with them.

Here are 3 ways you can improve your own resilience so you can feel calmer and unflappable.…

Sleep - the corner stone of resilience, we all know how awful it can feel to be sleep deprived. Implementing some screen free time before bed where you wind down, leaving your phone downstairs at bedtime and reducing/ removing alcohol could all help you feel more rested and calmer.

Nutrition- learning to eat for energy, as opposed to just eating less for fat loss, is often a big moment for my 1-1 Clients. It will reduce sugar dependancy and mean that you can thrive as opposed to feel like you’re spinning plates and barely coping.

Movement- building habits surrounding movement and finding movement that you enjoy and that serves you is key. Exercise is a form of good stress, and stress relief, plus it helps you tolerate other, more challenging stress better.

Interested in building your own resilience to go from surviving to thriving? Thats how I help women like you. Email me Beth@movemehappy.me to find out how I can help you