In this episode of Midlife by Design: Curating Your Next Chapter, we explore that quiet, tender moment so many women reach in midlife, when you realise you don’t want to go back… but you’re not entirely sure who you’re becoming either.

This isn’t about blowing your life up or chasing a shiny new version of yourself. It’s about listening to the subtle knowing that the life you built still works, but no longer quite fits. The body has changed. The nervous system is louder. Old dreams have softened, and new ones are hovering, waiting to be acknowledged.

I share why traditional vision boards often feel heavy or triggering in midlife, and introduce the idea of a Becoming Board: a gentler, more honest way to anchor yourself to the woman you’re growing into now, not who you think you should be one day. We talk about slow growth, livable lives, and why this season asks us to become the architects of our own support.

In the Letters from Midlife segment, I respond to a listener who feels overwhelmed by future planning and caught between not wanting to shrink her life, but also not wanting to chase anymore. If vision boards leave you feeling behind, pressured, or disconnected, this conversation is for you.

This episode is an invitation to stop forcing clarity and start designing your next chapter from truth, feeling, and self-trust. The full Midlife Circle version of this piece goes deeper into how to actually live with your Becoming Board, not just make a beautiful collage. Check it out here.

You’re not drifting. You’re curating. And that changes everything.

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Midlife by Design: Curating Your Next Chapter is a podcast for women standing in the in-between. The season where life looks full on the outside, but something inside is quietly asking for more truth, more ease, more alignment.

In this trailer, I share what this space is really about: honest conversations, gentle reflections, and intentional living in midlife. Not fixing yourself. Not reinventing overnight. But coming home to who you are now, and designing a life that can actually hold you.

If you’re navigating change, questioning old identities, or craving a softer, truer way forward, this podcast is for you.

Midlife isn’t the end of your story. It’s the chapter where you finally get to write it on your own terms.

For more rituals, gentle reminders, and reflections on becoming, visit Kiransinghuk.com or join me on Substack at Kiransinghuk.substack.com.

If the start of a new year leaves you feeling more tired than inspired, this episode is for you.

In this reflective conversation, I’m inviting you to pause before the lists, the goals, and the pressure to reinvent yourself. We explore why traditional New Year’s resolutions so often leave us feeling like we’ve failed and how midlife gently asks us to choose a different way forward.

I share the moment I stopped chasing rules and goals and instead chose one guiding word, ease, and how that simple shift began to quietly reshape my life. Not through doing less, but through doing what mattered more. Through moving with myself, not against myself.

This episode includes a heartfelt Letters from Midlife reflection from a woman who feels exhausted before the year has even begun and wonders how to set intentions when inspiration feels out of reach. Together, we explore why exhaustion isn’t a flaw, it’s information, and how intentions rooted in support, not self-correction, can become a powerful compass in midlife.

We talk about:

• Why resolutions often fail in midlife
• The difference between fixing yourself and living as your true self
• How to choose intentions that support your nervous system
• Why rest, stability, and less pressure are valid intentions
• How small, gentle rituals create lasting change

This isn’t about discipline or becoming someone new. It’s about devotion to yourself. About choosing alignment over effort. About beginning the year from honesty, not expectation.

If you’re standing at the edge of January and feeling the weight of “shoulds,” this episode offers a softer place to land.

Here’s to a New Year that feels like coming home. Here’s to intentions that hold you, not haunt you. Here’s to the New Year, True You.

For more slow rituals, gentle reminders, and reflections on becoming, visit Kiransinghuk.com or join me on Substack at kiransinghuk.substack.com.

This is the final episode of Midlife by Design: Curating Your Next Chapter for 2025, and it’s a quiet, honest pause before we step into whatever comes next.

In this deeply personal episode, I reflect on a year that didn’t unfold the way I imagined it would. There were no neat timelines or glow-up moments, just a messy, demanding season that asked more of me than I expected. A year where strength felt heavy, certainty felt distant, and simply getting through the day sometimes felt like the work.

I share what it was like to stand in the messy middle, questioning myself, feeling behind, and wondering whether all the inner work was actually leading anywhere. And I also share the part that surprised me most: this was the year I came home to myself. Not loudly or dramatically, but steadily, honestly, and for good.

We talk about learning to stop postponing yourself, celebrating growth that doesn’t photograph well, recognising the glimmers that bring the nervous system back to safety, and entering what I now lovingly call the no-f**ks era, not reckless or loud, but grounded, clear, and deeply self-trusting.

This episode also holds space for real milestones alongside the quieter work, and explores why I’m not rushing into “my best year yet,” why I want 2026 to feel different, and why presence matters more than pressure in midlife.

This final episode of the year is sponsored by Harriet Hills Nutrition, whose work aligns beautifully with this season of recalibration and care. Harriet is hosting the Re-Set | Re-Nourish: Luxury Wellness and Detox Day at the stunning Sopers House, a space created for women who are ready to pause, soften, and tend to themselves with intention. Not as a fix. Not as a punishment. But as an act of devotion.

If you’re ending this year feeling tired, reflective, quietly proud, or simply still standing, this episode is for you. You didn’t fall behind. You survived the year that shaped you.

Here’s to the next chapter. One honest conversation at a time.

For more slow rituals, gentle reminders, and reflections on becoming, visit Kiransinghuk.com and explore my Digital Library, or join me on Substack at Midlife by Design: Curating Your Next Chapter.

This episode is a gentle hand on your back for the moments when anxiety arrives quietly and takes up more space than you expected.

In this Letters from Midlife conversation, I respond to a letter from a woman navigating that familiar midlife anxiety that seems to come from nowhere. The racing thoughts. The tight chest. The sense of being on edge, even when life looks fine on the outside.

I talk about why anxiety can intensify in midlife, how hormonal shifts, accumulated stress, and nervous system overload often sit beneath it, and why this doesn’t mean you’re failing or going backwards. I share my own experiences of anxiety, the subtle signs I’ve learned to listen for, and the practices that help me come back into my body when my mind starts running ahead of me.

This isn’t about quick fixes or positive thinking. It’s about understanding what anxiety is trying to tell you, learning how to soften your response to it, and rebuilding a sense of safety within yourself.

If you’ve been feeling unsettled, restless, or not quite yourself lately, this episode will help you feel less alone and remind you that calm is something you can return to, gently and in your own time.

Settle in. Breathe slowly. You’re safe here.

For more slow rituals, gentle reminders, and reflections on becoming, visit Kiransinghuk.com and explore my Digital Library, or join me on Substack at Midlife by Design: Curating Your Next Chapter.

This episode is for the woman who’s done Christmas beautifully… but hasn’t quite felt it.

In this Letters from Midlife conversation, I’m sharing something quietly honest: despite the lights, the styling, the rituals, and the intention, Christmas didn’t land for me this year. And instead of pushing myself to feel festive, I chose to let that truth breathe.

I talk about what it’s like when the season feels muted rather than magical, when you opt out of the noise, the events, and the expectations, and when Christmas becomes less of a celebration and more of a holding space. We explore the permission to enjoy cosiness without performance, presence without pressure, and stillness without explanation.

This episode isn’t about fixing your feelings or forcing joy. It’s about honouring where you actually are, especially in midlife, when your inner landscape is shifting, and old traditions don’t always fit the way they once did.

If Christmas has felt quieter, heavier, or simply different for you this year, let this be your reminder: nothing is wrong with you. Sometimes the most sacred thing we can do is stop pretending and tell the truth.

Settle in, breathe out, and listen gently.

For more slow rituals, gentle reminders, and reflections on becoming, visit Kiransinghuk.com and explore my Digital Library, or join me on Substack at Midlife by Design: Curating Your Next Chapter.

In this episode of Letters from Midlife, I’m responding to a letter from a woman who’s struggling with a shift so many of us experience in midlife, yet rarely speak about with real honesty: no longer recognising the woman looking back at us in the mirror.

She writes about the weight, the softness, the bloating, the aches. About feeling like her body has changed overnight and wondering if this is normal, and how she’s meant to feel at home in her body again.

If you’ve ever looked in the mirror and felt a wave of grief, frustration, or quiet disbelief, this episode is for you.

I talk openly about why these changes happen in midlife, what’s actually going on beneath the surface, and why this isn’t your body betraying you, but recalibrating for a new season. I share my own moments of feeling disconnected from my body, and the shift that changed everything for me: moving from fighting my body to listening to her.

Inside this episode, I explore how to soften your relationship with your changing body, why focusing on support rather than shrinking matters more than ever, and how strength, rest, and compassion can help you feel grounded again in your own skin. We talk about grief too, because losing the body you once knew is real, and pretending otherwise only makes it heavier.

This isn’t about loving how you look overnight. It’s about learning to treat your body as a partner instead of a problem, and beginning a kinder, steadier conversation with yourself.

If your body feels unfamiliar right now, let this be your reminder: you are not behind, broken, or failing. You are becoming.

And before I go, I want to share something that genuinely stopped me in my tracks. Midlife by Design: Curating Your Next Chapter has been listed as number 14 out of 70 on Feedspot’s Top Lifestyle Design Podcasts.

Number fourteen. Out of seventy. I had to read it twice.

What makes this even sweeter is that this recognition originally came under my old podcast name, and once they reviewed the rebrand, they updated everything to reflect who I am now, this season, this voice, this work.

It feels like a quiet confirmation from the universe: keep going. Your voice is landing exactly where it needs to.

And honestly, I’m just grateful. Grateful that something I create from my lived experience is helping women in midlife feel seen, steady, and a little less alone.

Here’s to the next chapter, one honest conversation at a time.

For more slow rituals, gentle reminders, and reflections on becoming, visit Kiransinghuk.com and explore my Digital Library, or join me on Substack at Midlife by Design: Curating Your Next Chapter.

In this week’s episode of Letters from Midlife, Kiran reads a deeply familiar letter from a listener who’s found herself awake at 2 or 3 am most nights, exhausted, overwhelmed, and wondering why her once-reliable sleep has suddenly fallen apart.

If you’re in perimenopause and your nights feel broken, scattered, or unpredictable, this conversation will feel like sitting down with someone who truly understands. Kiran breaks down why midlife sleep changes are so common, what’s happening inside your hormones and nervous system, and why none of this means you’re failing or losing control.

Here’s the thing… this isn’t about sleep hygiene or willpower. It’s about working with a body that’s in transition.

I share gentle, practical shifts that can help you reclaim your nights; from regulating your nervous system before bed, to creating space to rest during the day, to planning for those inevitable 3 am wake-ups without spiralling. She also speaks honestly about her own experience of lying awake in the dark, and how compassion, pacing, and support (including HRT) changed everything.

You’ll walk away with grounded tools, a calming perspective, and a journaling prompt to help you tune back into what your body’s been trying to say.

If your sleep has felt unpredictable lately, this episode will meet you right where you are and remind you that you’re not broken, you’re recalibrating.

Listen in, breathe a little deeper, and take what you need.

If you’d like the full written reflection, journaling prompts, and deeper guidance, you can read the full article inside Substack.

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