This is for women in mid-life — often in their fifties — who don’t recognise themselves anymore.

Women who used to cope. Who used to manage everything. Who held careers, children, households, ageing parents, relationships, and everyone else’s emotional weight without falling apart.

And who feel they have ground to a halt finding themselves overwhelmed by things that never used to touch the sides. Tolerance for noise, pressure, or interruption has vanished and your confidence has quietly drained away.

You wonder what’s wrong with you — because this isn’t you.

At the same time, your body is changing.

Your hormones are shifting. Your weight behaves differently. Health problems are creeping in. Your shape, energy, sleep, and mood no longer respond to the rules you lived by for decades. And layered over all of that is something harder to name, but deeply felt:

Invisibility

Not because you’ve disappeared — but because the world has stopped reflecting you back. You notice it in rooms, in work, in relationships, waiting to be served in a shop,, in how easily you’re overlooked. You realise how much of your sense of worth was tied to being useful, attractive, accommodating, or endlessly capable.

When that feedback fades, it can feel like losing your footing entirely.

This isn’t weakness.
It isn’t failure.
And it isn’t “just menopause”.

It’s a transition — one that women are expected to survive quietly, without guidance, language, or support

A Brave New Mind exists for women who are done disappearing.

Not to reinvent themselves.
Not to go backwards.

But to become who they are now — with the best parts of who they were, integrated into a mature, grounded, self-respecting self.

For Women Who’ve Lost Themselves Somewhere Along the Way