MIDDLE LIFE CROSSROAD
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THERE IS A REASON MIDLIFE IS OFTEN
REFERRED TO AS A CRISIS
" Maree is a world class coach, hire her and tell your friends to do the same."
Bern.
The word crisis comes from the Ancient Greek krisis,
meaning a decision, judgement or turning point.
A turning point.
A crossroad.
A time for making life decisions.
Midlife is synonymous with endings.
Relationships. Marriages. Friendships.
Careers. Businesses. Parents.
A time of questioning.
Identity. Direction.
Who am I, what do I want?
How do I want to be living.
And a time for new
beginnings.
MIDLIFE IS A RITE OF PASSAGE
" Working with Maree has been a life changing experience."
Delina
A rite of passage is a process of transformation.
A movement from one way of being into another.
In midlife, it often begins with the realisation
that something is no longer working.
The conflict. The dissatisfaction.
The feeling that something has to change.
This is the calling.
If we want something to change, we have to be willing to do the work.
The journey happens in three phases.
SEPERATION
The calling.
The realisation that something is not working and something needs to change.
We cannot keep having the same argument.
TRANSITION
The liminal space.
The messy part. The middle.
This is where we are invited to do the work.
This means addressing what we may have previously avoided, minimised or learnt to live around.Asking and answering questions.
Making decisions finding courage to change.
Where am I?
What do I want?
How do I bridge the gap?
What am I doing that keeps me repeating the same patterns and experiencing the same thing?
In midlife, this is about clearing the past, addressing limiting beliefs, changing habits and patterns, and really understanding what we want.
And what we don’t.
INTEGRATION
Transformation. Re emerge.
Living the shift that has happened through doing the work.
We begin making different choices and living in a different way.
Traditionally, this is when we return to our community,
changed by the journey.
The rewarding part of the work.
This is who I am.
This is what I want to do.
Midlife. Maturing. Ripening. Expanding.
Coming into our own.
HELLO I'M MAREE
A Gen Xer. A child of the 70s.
I had a phone attached to the wall and I know how to send a fax.
So my understanding of midlife isn’t only professional.
It’s lived.
My body of work grew out of my own midlife Rite of Passage.
I created the work based on what was missing for me: someone to help me understand where I was, see what I couldn’t see for myself
and work out what came next.
I trained and certified in the United States with Brooke Castillo at The Life Coach School. I loved what I learnt, but coaching needs to understand the people and culture it is working within.
So I developed my own very Australian approach.
Before coaching, I spent decades developing people, ideas, businesses and creative projects. That life is covered in my Professional Bio, but it all sits underneath the way I work now.
Today, I work from my garden studio on the Surf Coast,
in person and online with people from around the world.
MIDLIFE LA VIE A MI PARCOURS
“We cannot live the afternoon of life according to the programme of life’s morning.”
— Carl Jung, The Stages of Life
What inspires me about midlife is our capacity to make shifts we may not have believed were possible earlier in our lives.
Our mortality becomes less abstract.
Time starts to matter differently.
We begin asking what we are here for and how we want to spend the years ahead.
Modern life tends to focus on the physical changes of midlife.
They are real.
But they are only one part of it.
Midlife also brings philosophical, emotional and spiritual questions to the surface.
Who am I now?
What do I want?
What still matters?
We arrive at these questions carrying decades of beliefs and habits with us.
People pleasing. Procrastination. Self-deprecation. Staying quiet.
Thinking we are too old. Telling ourselves that this is simply the way things are.
My work is to make the beliefs underneath these patterns visible.
Once we can see them, we can question them.
And that’s when everything shifts.
Coaching is a powerful and healing modality.
If you want to see what’s possible -
I invite you to book come and speak with me
What do I want?
MODERN MIDLIFE RITE OF PASSAGE
DOING THE WORK
By the time we arrive at the midlife crossroads, we have accumulated some baggage.
Old beliefs. Old roles. Conditioning.
Things we have learnt about ourselves, other people and how life works.
Successes. Failures. Relationships. Experiences from the past.
Together, these form the perspective we have built over the last 40 or 50 years.
Much of it has served us.
But the beliefs and patterns that helped us build the life we have may not help us create the life we want now.
Some beliefs have been with us for so long they feel like facts.
They live in our blind spots.
We cannot question what we cannot see.
We think we are imagining the future, but we are still using the past to decide what is possible.
This is the gap between knowing we want something different and being able to believe we can have it.
We cannot reimagine a new life, with new possibilities, limited by old beliefs.
The work is not about discarding the past.
We gather our excellence. Everything we have learnt, lived and become.
We shed what holds us back.
We take the experience of the past with us, but not its limitations.
That is the opportunity of the midlife turning point.
"Maree has an extraordinary ability to help people see themselves more clearly when they’ve lost sight of who they are."
TESTIMONIALS
Mikey
Working with Maree has been a very rewarding and enlightening experience. She is particularly easy to talk to and her caring yet evoking nature allows you to share your feelings without hesitation.
MIDLIFE COACHING HOW IT WORKS
"Maree is a dream to work with. Inspiring and wise."
Karen
A Guided Passage
Traditionally, rites of passage were guided.
We were not expected to find our way through alone.
That is how I work
Private coaching gives us a place to work through the transition together.
We begin with where you are and what is happening in your life.
We work out what you want, what is standing between you and it, and what needs to change.
I listen for the beliefs and patterns underneath what you are experiencing and bring them into the conversation.
Sometimes the work is coaching.
Sometimes it is teaching, mentoring or having a strategic thinking partner beside you.
I am not here to tell you who to become.
I am here to help you see where you are, understand what is keeping you stuck and work out what comes next.
The passage is yours.
You do not have to work it out alone.
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MY MIDLIFE PEOPLE
The circumstances are different.
The crossroads is the same.
Midlife Women | Midlife Men | Women Sans Kids | Midlife Couples
Midlife doesn't arrive the same way for everyone.
It might arrive through your relationship. Your work. Your body. Your identity. A loss. An ending. Or simply the realisation that something needs to change.
FOR WOMEN
Midlife brings questions of identity, direction, relationships, menopause and often a desire to reinvent.
A time to reconsider the life you've been living and the woman you're becoming.
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WOMEN WITHOUT CHILDREN
There is a particular experience of midlife when you don't have children.
Questions of belonging, identity, family, ageing, freedom, love and legacy.
Understanding the distinction that
"something is missing,"
does not mean missing children.
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FOR MEN
Midlife can shake the foundations.
Relationships. Work. Identity. Purpose. Separation. Starting again.
It can be characterised by resentment, anger
A place to unpack where you are, work out what matters now and find your direction.
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COUPLES
There are three things in a relationship.
You. Me. Us.
Midlife asks us to reinvent ourselves. A relationship has to be able to accommodate that reinvention too.
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COUPLES COACHING
A DIFFERENT APPROACH
STRATEGIC THINKING PARTNER BUSINESS START UPS OVER 50
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
