If you find yourself unhappy at midlife, you might be wondering how on earth you got here. Unhappiness at midlife might present itself as low mood but can also contain elements of discontentment, unfulfillment and entrapment. It’s a tricky life transition and perhaps one of the most challenging aspects of confronting it is having to... Read More

Do Narcissists go through a Midlife Crisis? Yes, and horrifically, it’s a perpetual one. In Midlife many people can experience a sense of underachievement and that they have not achieved enough in their lives and by now should be doing better, have more stuff, an overflowing pension pot, a bigger house and be higher up... Read More

Am I having a midlife crisis? Yes, perhaps. This is a question I often get asked by clients. People always assume if someone quits work suddenly, buys a motorbike or flashy car or has an affair that they are having a midlife crisis – but what is actually happening? Research of the experience of midlifers... Read More

A Midlife crisis is inevitable, caused by stress and all downhill from here! Three things people assume about a midlife crisis which are wrong. Many people think all midlife crises are the same -people freak out, buy a flash car and have an affair – but the midlife crisis experience is so personal and different... Read More

The Midlife Passage is Rough – despite what anyone says! I think it’s fair to say that many people feel stuck in the middle of a midlife transition or as it is known more familiarly a midlife crisis. Some people take issue with the use of the word ‘crisis’ saying we need to concentrate on... Read More

Midlife can often be accompanied with a horrible sense of feeling lost. As a psychologist, I understand this as a person being in the ‘liminal space’. The word liminality, is derived from the Latin word limen, meaning threshold. Lost at midlife? welcome to the Liminal Space The Liminal Space is a transitory space, the space... Read More

In midlife people begin to focus on the limitations of the second half of their life realising that life isn’t forever and often a sense that time is running out can begin to develop. People can enter into a stage of intense existential reappraisal which evokes turbulent struggles within the self and with the external... Read More