Our Year of 2025
An End-of-Year Reflection
Thank You.
Hello dear Community ~
Before the year quietly turns the page, I wanted to offer you a small pause - a moment to look back at what we shared together in the Midlife Wisdom School in 2025.
This page isn’t here to sum everything up neatly or tie it with a bow. It’s simply a place to remember - gently - what we practised, what we learned and how we showed up for one another.
Thank you for helping shape a community that values listening and the courage to lean on one another.
In 2025, we gathered month by month to slow down, tell the truth and remember what matters. Through shared practices, honest conversation and moments of stillness, we explored what it means to live with greater connection and compassion. This was a year of showing up - gently, imperfectly, together.
Our Year in a Nutshell
Three Big Themes of 2025
These weren’t ideas to master - they were qualities we returned to, again and again, in real life.
Belonging
Finding our place without needing to perform or prove.
Friendship
Letting ourselves be met, witnessed and accompanied in midlife.
Self-Compassion
Learning to soften the inner voice and meet ourselves with kindness.
“I feel so deeply privileged to be a member of this community. It is very special and so needed in our world today.”
“What a wonderful blessing this community is - especially in a world where community is harder to find.”
“Every time we gather I feel richer, fuller and more deeply connected.”
We Practised Together
Across the year, we created a steady rhythm - something you could lean into when life felt full, tender, or uncertain. Each offering was an invitation - not to fix ourselves, but to listen more deeply to what was already true.
Voices Who Walked With Us
Each brought wisdom, humility and humanity - helping us see our lives, and one another, with fresh eyes.
Cheryl Richardson
New York Times bestselling author
Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Poet, Teacher and Speaker
Dr Emily Musgrove
clinical psychologist, author of unstuck
Steve Biddulph
Psychologist, Author & World Renowned Parent Educator
Hugh Mackay
Australia's Leading Social Psychologist & Best Selling Author
Three Kindness Experiments
Nothing elaborate. Nothing performative.
Just small, brave gestures, offered with care.
Many of you shared how these simple practices subtly changed how you related - at home, at work and within yourself.
Turning toward yourself with kindness
Asking generous questions
Deliberately reaching out to someone
Thank You
