Midlife by Design: Curating Your Next Chapter

Kiran Singh
  • 4.0 (3)
  • HEALTH & FITNESS
  • UPDATED WEEKLY

Welcome to Midlife by Design, the podcast that invites you to stop drifting through your next chapter… and start curating it with clarity, courage, and heart. I’m Kiran Singh, Midlife Lifestyle Coach & Menopause Wellness Coach, and your guide as you step into the most expansive, intentional, and soul-aligned chapter of your life yet. This is your space for honest conversations, soulful reflections, and practical tools to help you reinvent your life from the inside out, on your terms. Each week, we explore the 5 Core Life Areas that shape your midlife transformation:  Health & Well-being  Self-Discovery & Identity  Relationships & Connection  Money & Purpose  Quality of Life & Everyday Joy Whether you're navigating change, craving reinvention, or simply longing to feel more you, this podcast is your reminder that midlife isn't a crisis, it's your creative awakening. You’re not here to fade quietly into the background.You’re here to come home to yourself. To lead your life with intention.To curate a chapter that feels deeply, unapologetically yours. Hit subscribe, pour a cup of tea, and let’s begin this beautiful reimagining together. Listen now on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible, YouTube, Podomatic & Deezer, and take the first step toward curating your next chapter.If you’re ready to deepen the connection, come join my world. You’ll find journaling prompts, soulful midlife support, and a beautiful community over at Kiransinghuk.com, where we’re curating this next chapter together, one honest conversation at a time.

  1. 2D AGO

    Mum guilt vs Self-trust: Choosing rest without needing permission

    In this episode of Midlife by Design: Curating Your Next Chapter, we’re talking about the kind of midlife lesson that doesn’t arrive as a big breakthrough… but as a small decision that changes everything. It starts with a solo trip to France, an early train, a £47 hotel room near King’s Cross, and that familiar internal debate so many women know by heart: Do I choose comfort… or do I prove I can handle it? Because in midlife, we’re often not denying ourselves ease because we can’t afford it, we’re denying it because we think we have to earn it. This episode explores what it really looks like to stop making your needs smaller, stop pushing through out of habit, and start choosing what supports you, especially when your body is already carrying pain, fatigue, or the weight of being the one who holds it all together. We talk about guilt, the “strong woman” reflex to abandon yourself the second someone else needs something, and the practice of learning that you can love people deeply without derailing your life to prove it. There’s also a powerful reminder woven through this story: health is not a motivational quote. It’s your foundation. And the earlier you start prioritising it, the kinder your future becomes. If you’ve been making life harder than it needs to be just to prove you can, this episode is your permission slip to choose ease without apology, because midlife isn’t the season to do things the hard way. It’s the season to do them the kind way. If this landed, share it with a woman who needs permission to choose herself. And if you feel called, leave a review so more women can find this space. For more slow rituals, gentle reminders, and reflections on becoming, visit Kiransinghuk.com and join me on Substack at kiransinghuk.substack.com.

    12 min

  2. FEB 17

    When I Stopped Negotiating With the Present

    There’s a moment in midlife when you realise you’ve been living one step ahead of yourself. Not in an ambitious, visionary way. In a restless way. The kind where you’re mentally rehearsing the next chapter while real-life you is standing in the kitchen, hungry, tired, staring at a counter that looks like a small tornado took personal offence. In today’s episode, Letting Life Meet Me Where I Am, we talk about the quiet trap so many of us fall into in our 40s and 50s: treating the woman we are as an inconvenient draft, while we chase the upgraded version we think we should be by now. We explore why midlife is the season that refuses performance. You can’t out-plan hormonal shifts. You can’t hustle through grief. You can’t productivity your way out of exhaustion. Your body starts telling the truth faster than your mind can decorate it, and suddenly the question isn’t How do I fix this? but What if I stopped fighting it? This episode is a love letter to the messy middle. The in-between season that isn’t a mistake, it’s a passage. The place where you stop earning rest, stop negotiating with your reality, and start building a life that can actually hold you, not just on your best days, but on your tired ones too. You’ll come away with simple, grounded ways to meet yourself where you are, without turning it into a crisis: checking your true capacity, choosing support over discipline, letting rest be a requirement (not a reward), and creating tiny rituals that bring you back to yourself. If you’ve been feeling like you should be further along, let this be your reminder: you’re not behind. You’re human. And you don’t need to perfect your life to feel better. Sometimes the shift is simply this: stop abandoning yourself in the present while you wait for a future version of you to finally feel worthy. If this landed, share it with a woman who’s been carrying too much and calling it fine. And for more soul-led, practical midlife support, visit Kiransinghuk.com and join me on Substack for my Love Notes, that gentle pause in your week. With love,Kiran x

    14 min

  3. FEB 10

    The Truth About My Midlife Body No One Prepared Me For

    There comes a moment in midlife when your body stops whispering and starts asking. Not loudly. Not dramatically. But clearly enough that you can’t ignore it anymore. In this episode, we explore that turning point so many women reach in their 40s and 50s, when disrupted sleep, lingering pain, emotional shifts, fatigue, or a quiet sense of grief begin to ask for a different kind of attention. Not another plan. Not more discipline. But a more honest relationship with yourself. This conversation isn’t about fixing your body or pushing through discomfort. It’s about learning how to listen, how to recognise when your needs have changed, and how to respond with support rather than self-judgement. We talk about why midlife often brings grief for old versions of ourselves, and why that grief doesn’t mean something has gone wrong, it means a transition is underway. You’ll hear why resilience in midlife isn’t built through extremes, but through discernment. Through choosing nourishment over restriction, consistency over intensity, and relief over unnecessary suffering. We also touch on how building a personal support system, whether that’s medical, physical, emotional, or practical, can help you move out of survival mode and into partnership with your body. This episode is for the woman who’s tired of fighting herself. For the one wondering whether it’s okay to choose support. For the one who senses that her body isn’t failing her, it’s guiding her. Midlife doesn’t ask you to push harder. It asks you to respond differently. And when you do, you may discover that your body isn’t limiting you at all, it’s leading you home. For more reflections and support, visit Kiransinghuk.com and Substack. Subscribe, leave a review, and share this with a woman who needs a soft place to land today x With love, Kiran x Kiransinghuk.com | The Sattva Collective

    10 min

  4. FEB 3

    When There’s No Old Version to Go Back To

    Today’s episode is a Midlife Living Journal entry from one of those tender, heavy days. The kind where you feel flat, two days away from your bleed, emotions sitting close to the surface, and your body asking for softness instead of productivity. I watched part of the documentary BALANCE: A Perimenopause Journey, hoping for clarity around perimenopause and HRT, and instead, it stirred up the questions so many of us carry quietly: What if I’d started earlier? What if I’d known sooner? What if I could feel more like me by now? But here’s what landed as I sat with it. I don’t actually know what normal feels like. For more than two decades, my baseline hasn’t been calm, regulated, or even neutral. It’s been survival. Responsibility. Hypervigilance. Being the one who holds it all together. So two months into HRT, the question isn’t just is this working? It’s deeper than that. Because there is no old version of me to return to. I’m not restoring anything. I’m creating something new: a nervous system learning safety for the first time. Hormones finding rhythm. A body recalibrating after years of running on pure capability. We also talk about what it’s like when chronic hip and leg pain makes your world smaller, when winter feels long, and when surgery sits in the background like a quiet drumbeat. You’ll hear how I’m preparing in a practical, loving way by simplifying my home, making life easier for Khushi, and building a bridge between who I am now and the woman I’ll be on the other side of recovery. And if you’ve been feeling more inward lately, less interested in crowds, events, and being on, I share why that might not be avoidance at all. It might be discernment. Conserving your energy for what truly matters. This episode is an invitation to stop forcing your way through discomfort just to prove you can. To let the questions exist without urgency. To soften into the truth that you’re not behind, you’re becoming. If this resonates, take five minutes after listening and ask yourself: What do I need right now, if I’m being completely honest? Write what comes up. No judgement. Just truth. And if you want more reflections and support as you navigate your next chapter, come and join me at Kiransinghuk.com and on Substack. Subscribe, leave a review, and share this with a woman who needs a soft place to land today x With love, Kiran x Kiransinghuk.com | The Sattva Collective

    11 min

  5. JAN 25

    Not a Detox, a Return: A Nourishing New Year Reset for Midlife Women

    In this episode of Midlife by Design: Curating Your Next Chapter, we’re rewriting the January narrative once and for all.Because by the time you’re in your 40s and 50s, the old “New Year, new you” script doesn’t just feel outdated, it feels deeply misaligned. You’re not a before picture. You’re not a problem to solve because you enjoyed December. You were living. And that matters.In this conversation, I talk honestly about why detoxes, extreme resets, and “reining it in” don’t work in midlife, and how they often leave us more depleted, anxious, and disconnected from our bodies than before. We explore what’s really going on beneath the bloating, fatigue, and overwhelm, and why your body isn’t broken, it’s being incredibly honest.I share a gentler alternative: a midlife reset rooted in rhythm, nourishment, and self-trust, not punishment. We talk about returning to the basics that actually support a hormonally changing body, eating in a way that feels holding rather than restrictive, moving in ways that restore instead of exhaust, hydrating with intention, and protecting sleep like the sacred foundation it is.This episode isn’t about starting over or becoming someone new. It’s about coming back to yourself. Slowly. Kindly. On purpose.If January usually fills you with pressure, guilt, or the sense that you should be doing more, this episode is your permission slip to choose a different way. One that feels sustainable, supportive, and aligned with the woman you are now.No detox. No punishment. Just a steady return to rhythm, and a body that finally feels like it’s on your side again.For more slow rituals, gentle reminders, and reflections on becoming, visit Kiransinghuk.com or join me on Substack at Kiransinghuk.substack.com.

    11 min

  6. JAN 18

    The Art of Winter Reflection: Journaling and Soul Work in Midlife

    In this episode of Midlife by Design: Curating Your Next Chapter, I’m inviting you into the quieter magic of winter, the season that asks us to slow down, soften our pace, and turn inward. Winter has always carried a certain stillness for me. But it wasn’t until midlife that I stopped resisting it and began to see it for what it truly is: a natural pause. A season of reflection. A time for soul work. I share a personal moment from a January morning when perimenopause left me feeling lost, untethered, and unsure of who I was becoming, and how journaling became a lifeline rather than a luxury. Through writing, I began to see patterns, name emotions I’d been avoiding, and gently reconnect with myself. That was when I realised something important: reflection isn’t indulgent. In midlife, it’s medicine. We explore why winter mirrors midlife so beautifully, both inviting us to shed what no longer fits, honour where we are, and prepare the ground for what comes next, without rushing, fixing, or forcing change. In this episode, I also guide you through simple, grounding winter journaling rituals you can weave into real life, even if you’ve never kept a journal consistently before. This is about creating space to listen, not adding another thing to your to-do list. I’ll leave you with gentle prompts and an invitation to make reflection a small, nourishing ritual this winter, one that helps you see yourself more clearly and move into your next season with compassion, courage, and trust. And if you’re craving a deeper, more supported reflection practice, I share how you can continue this work inside The Midlife Circle, where we turn winter reflection into something you can actually live with, all season long. So, my Love, if winter has been quietly calling you to pause, this episode is for you.For more slow rituals, gentle reminders, and reflections on becoming, visit Kiransinghuk.com or join me on Substack at Kiransinghuk.substack.com.

    12 min

  7. JAN 12

    Beyond the Vision Board: A Midlife Practice in Remembering Yourself

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

    9 min

  8. JAN 8

    Midlife by Design: Curating Your Next Chapter Trailer

    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.

    2 min
See All (92)

Ratings & Reviews

4
out of 5
3 Ratings

About

Welcome to Midlife by Design, the podcast that invites you to stop drifting through your next chapter… and start curating it with clarity, courage, and heart. I’m Kiran Singh, Midlife Lifestyle Coach & Menopause Wellness Coach, and your guide as you step into the most expansive, intentional, and soul-aligned chapter of your life yet. This is your space for honest conversations, soulful reflections, and practical tools to help you reinvent your life from the inside out, on your terms. Each week, we explore the 5 Core Life Areas that shape your midlife transformation:  Health & Well-being  Self-Discovery & Identity  Relationships & Connection  Money & Purpose  Quality of Life & Everyday Joy Whether you're navigating change, craving reinvention, or simply longing to feel more you, this podcast is your reminder that midlife isn't a crisis, it's your creative awakening. You’re not here to fade quietly into the background.You’re here to come home to yourself. To lead your life with intention.To curate a chapter that feels deeply, unapologetically yours. Hit subscribe, pour a cup of tea, and let’s begin this beautiful reimagining together. Listen now on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon Music, Audible, YouTube, Podomatic & Deezer, and take the first step toward curating your next chapter.If you’re ready to deepen the connection, come join my world. You’ll find journaling prompts, soulful midlife support, and a beautiful community over at Kiransinghuk.com, where we’re curating this next chapter together, one honest conversation at a time.

Information