The MidLife Coach

Meet Alana.

MidLife Coach. Author. Speaker. 

The purpose of your life is you; to breath, to shine, to grow.

Midlife is the magical time of transformation. It is your time.

Yet midlife is often a time when women feel lost, overwhelmed and tired.  It's the coalface of life, when you are often at your busiest. 

I offer a safe and transformative space, empowering you to see your courage and potential, to come out from under the overwhelm, to shed the layers of identity you have hidden yourself under.

This investment of time, energy and space on yourself will enrich your life, shatter self-sabotaging thoughts, and ignite a fire in your belly to make choices, seek clarity and embrace your potential.

I will help you stop living a life on default, so that you can live your life by design.

Who the hell wants to age gracefully?

Let's age and live powerfully!

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If you want a taster of how impactful this work can be to create mindshifts and healthier habits, join my FREE 5 day Thrive in 2025 Challenge Adventure starting on the 6th January 2025.  All the details are here and it will give you the boost you need to start 2025 on the front foot (without those NY Resolutions to beat yourself over the head with.)

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Like most women, I’ve had my fair share of ups and downs.  I’ve single parented, double buggied, triple jobbed and lost my mother, marriage and reason in the space of 12 months, just as I hit midlife. 

I wrote about my time sandwiched between the care of three small children, and my beautiful mum who was rendered brain damaged and paralysed after a stroke in the best selling book The Sandwich Years.

What I've learned is that we are not defined by what happens to us, but by how we respond.

My latest book, Midlife, redefined: Better, Bolder, Brighter is a self-coaching memoir that charts my own story of learning to thrive, not just survive, midlife, those of my wonderful clients, and real practical tools so that the reader comes away with real and practical tools - their own midlife (wo)manual.

I first discovered the value of coaching 15 years ago. I had spent years building a wonderful career in the non-profit sector. However when I had my first child and, shocked by my own decision to step back from that career that had until then defined me, I was recommended coaching to help me figure out how to navigate that wilderness.

It transformed my life.

It gave me the place and space to figure out what I could do, and how I could combine my love of creative work with my love of raising a family.

It gave me the insight and confidence to build a new career as a writer. My new career path didn’t happen overnight, and it wasn’t easy. That’s not the point. Coaching allowed me to find my new direction when I stepped off what I thought was a permanent path.

The second time I used coaching was when my marriage ended and I faced an uncertain future. Again, it didn’t take away the pain of the past, but it made my future clearer and helped me redesign a life I love.

A life that works for me, not against me.  

I’m now a qualified Life and Leadership coach and speaker working with women in midlife.

We have opportunities and potential that no other generation of women before us have had, but we also face a very confusing and challenging time.

You have the answers inside of you.

You just have to invest in the time to find them.

That’s what I will do as your coach. Your time with me will be a safe space where you get to focus just on you. We will find and celebrate your strengths, we will explore what works for you, and how to ensure you live life to your best potential.

Coaching is an investment in you.

Not you as a mother, daughter, wife, partner, sister, friend, colleague, career person.

 You. Just, (but never ‘just’) you.

Midlife, redefined: Better, Bolder, Brighter

My new book is being called "the book every woman needs to read!"

When my own midlife got messy, I wrote the book I needed to read. Using my own story, those of the women I have coached and my coaching tools, this book will help you take control of your midlife.  Each chapter has a theme and an exercise so that by the end you'll have your own bespoke midlife (wo)manual.

You'll go on an adventure of self-discovery, then get the coloured markers out for some midlife designing how you want your life to feel, and finally you'll roll up your sleeves and start actioning and living the life you want. 

Check it out here - Midlife, redefined: Better, Bolder, Brighter.

Thanks so much for your coaching. You’re brilliant at bringing clarity to the chaos and clutter of my mind!

Anna Mooney, Co-founder of My Silk Pillowcase

I was at your online seminar a few weeks ago and it was such a wake up moment for me. I'm now following your five elements system and thrilled with it!

Eileen Mooney

Alana’s coaching exceeded my expectations and it gave me time to reflect on aspects on life and how we move forward and achieve our maximum potential with ease.

Michelle Irvine, Pilates Instructor

If you'd like regular writing and midlife musings....

sign up to my newsletter Your Midlife Matters. I focus on themes and solutions I glean from my coaching, often with practical exercises, coaching on specific areas, and much more.  I run fortnightly interviews with inspiring midlifers on topics from beliefs, goals and habits, to food, mood and mojo; from sex, success and style, to fitness, health and hormones; from sleep, skin and hair to career, change and challenges and a bit of whatever else affects us women at midlife.