Murdering Middle Age by Michele Cox

Author:Michele Cox
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Upstart Press

Carolyn, who is Maia’s fiancée, has a passion for health, wellness and nutrition — beautiful gifts born from her life experiences. She is a former veterinary nurse and now a health and wellness coach, and also has an online wellness business.

In her words, Carolyn is a naturally sensitive and compassionate person who struggled through chaotic teenage years and sadly had some experiences that deeply impacted on her. In her late teens, she was diagnosed with anorexia, bulimia, and depression that continued until her early thirties. She also became a single mum at 17 years old to her beautiful daughter Kassandra, and says they both muddled their way through life together, surviving but not particularly thriving.

Carolyn had always had an interest in holistic health. All those years of seeking recovery through different avenues taught her a variety of wellness tools (such as self-soothing), but it didn’t become something that she really prioritised until several years later.

Just before hitting middle age at 38 years old, she found herself again in a dire mental health situation, after going through a deeply toxic situation in her personal life and a traumatic dispute in business simultaneously. She lost everything she had worked so hard to build, found herself in a deep pit of depression, and was experiencing severe anxiety and panic attacks on a daily basis.

Carolyn believed she had been broken and truly feared she would never recover. Studying veterinary nursing at the time, while also working as many hours as she possibly could to pay lawyers and creditors, she was literally running on caffeine and anxiety. With lack of sleep, weight loss and chronic injuries from running, her health was suffering and she was deeply concerned she would burn out further and it would lead to a complete breakdown or even suicide. This fear led her down the path of prescription medication and seeking therapy.

With time, Carolyn found natural methods of coping with anxiety and panic attacks, and she started working through what she had experienced. She learned about the effects of stress, inflammation, poor nutrition and lack of sleep on the body and feared it was going to lead to chronic health conditions, so she began changing her lifestyle.

Since then, she now deliberately and actively engages in health-promoting behaviours of the whole self, not just what will help her in the present but what will also serve her future self. Here are some of Carolyn’s strategies:

•Deep breathing and meditation are incredibly effective for Carolyn. They are an integral part of her morning routine and her ‘go to’ if experiencing any stress.

•She moves her body every day and especially loves daily yoga and walking. Carolyn also weight trains to maintain bone density and muscle strength through middle age and beyond.

•She started minimising stress wherever possible. For Carolyn this also meant leaving the veterinary industry and finding a career that would allow her to manage her time, energy and stress levels more effectively.

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