<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Still Becoming]]></title><description><![CDATA[Weekly essays, guides and coaching for midlife women building the life they actually want. Permission included.]]></description><link>https://www.thewidelife.co.uk/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2026 13:07:49 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.thewidelife.co.uk/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Is it too late?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Last winter I was a photographer. Behind the camera, never in front of it. Then I started writing in public about the thing I had been putting off and found out I was far more capable than I had been giving myself credit for.

The question underneath all of it: is it too late? The honest answer, with the evidence behind it.]]></description><link>https://www.thewidelife.co.uk/post/is-it-too-late</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a731b1f101ab9175ce782f6</guid><category><![CDATA[Personal Growth Strategies]]></category><category><![CDATA[Community for Midlife Women]]></category><category><![CDATA[midlife]]></category><category><![CDATA[Personal Growth]]></category><category><![CDATA[Midlife Transitions]]></category><category><![CDATA[Building Meaningful Connections]]></category><category><![CDATA[messy middle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Intentional Living]]></category><category><![CDATA[Personal Growth in Midlife]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:21:05 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/08fa78_06e244522e04485e8afef843f2cf4560~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_714,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jules Mold</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Who taught you to take up less space]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tracing the shrinking habit to its origin and deciding whether it still applies]]></description><link>https://www.thewidelife.co.uk/post/who-taught-you-to-take-up-less-space</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a9184ee76203b934d6045f4</guid><category><![CDATA[Personal Growth Strategies]]></category><category><![CDATA[Community for Midlife Women]]></category><category><![CDATA[midlife]]></category><category><![CDATA[Personal Growth]]></category><category><![CDATA[Midlife Transitions]]></category><category><![CDATA[messy middle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Personal Growth in Midlife]]></category><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 13:05:39 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/08fa78_b8838254496140148bb34511358f7ac1~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jules Mold</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Fifteen-minute Version]]></title><description><![CDATA[The clear morning is not coming.

Not this week, and probably not next week either. The empty calendar, the moment when everything else is handled and there is finally room — these arrive very occasionally, and building a creative practice around their arrival is a plan for not building very much.]]></description><link>https://www.thewidelife.co.uk/post/the-fifteen-minute-version</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a5f84f44fc11de983d104e4</guid><category><![CDATA[Personal Growth Strategies]]></category><category><![CDATA[midlife]]></category><category><![CDATA[Personal Growth]]></category><category><![CDATA[Midlife Transitions]]></category><category><![CDATA[messy middle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Resilience Strategies]]></category><category><![CDATA[Intentional Living]]></category><category><![CDATA[Overcoming Creative Isolation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Personal Growth in Midlife]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:13:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/08fa78_16dee72c6cce4379836651e9d92ae243~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jules Mold</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Midlife is not a winding down.]]></title><description><![CDATA[he story we are told about midlife is wrong. Not slightly off. Not in need of nuance. Wrong.

And the women who have absorbed it are paying for it with years they are not getting back.]]></description><link>https://www.thewidelife.co.uk/post/midlife-is-not-a-winding-down</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a73169c277d47c355d2f4f9</guid><category><![CDATA[Personal Growth Strategies]]></category><category><![CDATA[Community for Midlife Women]]></category><category><![CDATA[midlife]]></category><category><![CDATA[Midlife Transitions]]></category><category><![CDATA[Building Meaningful Connections]]></category><category><![CDATA[messy middle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Intentional Living]]></category><category><![CDATA[Personal Growth in Midlife]]></category><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:09:02 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/08fa78_4aff5ff8a5624a1ca1d23a7fe4e74127~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jules Mold</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[What changes after you finally say yes to yourself.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Permission given in theory and permission inhabited in practice are two completely different things. The first is a decision. The second is what you do with the decision. And the distance between them is larger than most people expect.]]></description><link>https://www.thewidelife.co.uk/post/what-changes-after-you-finally-say-yes-to-yourself</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a5f7e6fad31f9f079cab1ed</guid><category><![CDATA[Navigating Hard Times]]></category><category><![CDATA[Personal Growth Strategies]]></category><category><![CDATA[Community for Midlife Women]]></category><category><![CDATA[midlife]]></category><category><![CDATA[Personal Growth]]></category><category><![CDATA[Midlife Transitions]]></category><category><![CDATA[Building Meaningful Connections]]></category><category><![CDATA[messy middle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Resilience Strategies]]></category><category><![CDATA[Intentional Living]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:00:12 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/08fa78_f9ef95d152d94e9bb8ee18cb524f4c6c~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jules Mold</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[This is who The Becoming is for.]]></title><description><![CDATA[You cleared a morning for the thing that matters. Sat down. Started. Something happened — a phone call, a school run, the weight of a Tuesday. The morning closed before you'd used it. You told yourself you'd try again next week.

That was three months ago. Or six. Or two years.

This essay is about you.]]></description><link>https://www.thewidelife.co.uk/post/this-is-who-the-becoming-is-for</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a5f397ce0effe41178d23b3</guid><category><![CDATA[Midlife Transitions]]></category><category><![CDATA[Personal Growth]]></category><category><![CDATA[Community for Midlife Women]]></category><category><![CDATA[Personal Growth Strategies]]></category><category><![CDATA[messy middle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Building Meaningful Connections]]></category><category><![CDATA[Resilience Strategies]]></category><category><![CDATA[Intentional Living]]></category><category><![CDATA[Personal Growth in Midlife]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:44:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/08fa78_269467fdfe954ab5a99e7b53293d05cd~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jules Mold</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[You are not meant to do this alone]]></title><description><![CDATA[There is a particular kind of distortion that happens when you work alone for long enough. It is not loneliness, exactly. It is the way your own ideas begin to sound different when they have only ever bounced off the inside of your own skull and the doubt that fills the silence where another voice might have been.]]></description><link>https://www.thewidelife.co.uk/post/you-are-not-meant-to-do-this-alone</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a4ea46691f517cb726f2721</guid><category><![CDATA[Midlife Transitions]]></category><category><![CDATA[messy middle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Resilience Strategies]]></category><category><![CDATA[Intentional Living]]></category><category><![CDATA[Personal Growth]]></category><category><![CDATA[Personal Growth Strategies]]></category><category><![CDATA[Community for Midlife Women]]></category><category><![CDATA[Building Meaningful Connections]]></category><category><![CDATA[Overcoming Creative Isolation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Personal Growth in Midlife]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:30:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/08fa78_dea8643a3df84d0b8a93bc4f0a2fbb32~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jules Mold</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The plan that bends without breaking]]></title><description><![CDATA[A plan that only works when everything is going well isn't a plan. It's a best-case scenario.

Real life includes grief, illness, children who need more than expected, the kind of exhaustion that isn't solved by sleep.

I've been writing about what actually holds when it doesn't ,the floor, the buffer, and how to come back without the guilt spiral that costs more than the gap itself.]]></description><link>https://www.thewidelife.co.uk/post/the-plan-that-bends-without-breaking</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a4e7a9ada4074f9d0b42b8d</guid><category><![CDATA[midlife]]></category><category><![CDATA[messy middle]]></category><category><![CDATA[planning]]></category><category><![CDATA[Navigating Hard Times]]></category><category><![CDATA[Personal Growth]]></category><category><![CDATA[Resilience Strategies]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:06:43 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/08fa78_4aff5ff8a5624a1ca1d23a7fe4e74127~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jules Mold</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Designing a life you actually want to live in]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most of us are living a life that accumulated rather than a life we designed. The difference between the two is not a matter of luck or circumstance. It is a matter of attention.]]></description><link>https://www.thewidelife.co.uk/post/designing-a-life-you-actually-want-to-live-in</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a4191ec51416e35e7814542</guid><category><![CDATA[midlife]]></category><category><![CDATA[Personal Growth]]></category><category><![CDATA[Resilience Strategies]]></category><category><![CDATA[planning]]></category><category><![CDATA[messy middle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Intentional Living]]></category><category><![CDATA[Midlife Transitions]]></category><category><![CDATA[Personal Growth Strategies]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 21:29:38 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/08fa78_ac596aa6ce2f417787d59811571dfd78~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jules Mold</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Still feel like a fraud?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The fraud feeling is not evidence that you don't belong here. It's evidence that you're attempting something that matters. What to do with it.]]></description><link>https://www.thewidelife.co.uk/post/still-feel-like-a-fraud</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a4190e497220de384b1f348</guid><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 21:26:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/08fa78_7f25bbeb47d04cbd8ffbdf9bf93a5c05~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jules Mold</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Six months ago I was a photographer]]></title><description><![CDATA[The pivot that didn't feel like a pivot, the plan that dissolved, and what arrived instead. The full story of how Still Becoming became what it is.]]></description><link>https://www.thewidelife.co.uk/post/six-months-ago-i-was-a-photographer</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a418ef197220de384b1effa</guid><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 21:22:10 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/08fa78_833ad4827b09406bb090595e5e607216~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Jules Mold</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>