Postcards From Midlife

By Lorraine Candy & Trish HalpinHealth & Fitness Mental Health Kids & Family

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Postcards From Midlife episodes

February 22 Longevity masterclass: Calm your nervous system, beat overwhelm & boost healthspan
Trish & Lorraine meet leading integrative health specialist Dr Tamsin Lewis & discover the surprising fundamentals for creating mind & body harmony. Find out how to protect & support your brain to prevent cognitive decline, tune into the signals your brain & nervous system are sending you, the health tests worth having in midlife that will boost your healthspan & check if you are suffering from adrenal fatigue. She also shares her 80/20 rule for living your best life & why we all need to add more fun into our everyday lives.

Plus: 4 books you’ll devour this spring & the YouTube channel that sorted Trish’s sticky hip for good

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59 min
February 15 Nuala McGovern: how she landed the Woman’s Hour top job & her meet cute love story
BBC Woman’s Hour presenter Nuala McGovern on how to enjoy an extremely stressful career, getting up at 5.45am and how she stayed sane during the toughest of times. One the eve of Woman’s Hour’s 80th anniversary Nuala, 54, gives us a peek behind the scenes and chats about her remarkable journalism career that landed her the job two years ago. In a rare interview, Nuala also opens up about her childhood growing up in a Dublin pub, the impact of witnessing the Twin Towers attack & the raft of other ‘history in the making’ moments she has had a ringside seat at. She also shares how she met her hubby, living in the now tips & why you’ll always find her on a dancefloor.

Plus: Trish & Lorraine’s list of new fun things to do with friends and 3 controversial novels to get your book club talking.

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54 min
February 08 Eat Pray Love author Elizabeth Gilbert on addiction, loss, co-dependency, love, grief and rage.
Trish & Lorraine meet the international best selling author to pick up the story of her life detailed in her new memoir All The Way to the River: Love, Loss & Liberation. Elizabeth speaks with moving honesty about her love story with her ‘wife’ Raya, their descent into addiction, and the rage and pain of profound grief. She also shares her spiritual learnings & life philosophies for our midlife years, including how to stop ‘purpose anxiety’, why gentle curiosity rather than one big passion makes for a more interesting life, why women need to stop pouring themselves into others & her experiment in ‘honest ageing’.

Plus: Margo the podcat turns 80, what to do with dreadful gifts & the mystery of the stock cube in the pyjama pocket
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1 hr 1 min
February 01 Get the sleep your brain & body really needs. Plus beat insomnia & the 3am wake-up
Lorraine & Trish learn some surprising, reassuring advice & helpful tips from clinical sleep physiologist, Stephanie Romiszewski. Discover the easy morning routine that will boost your sleep drive & improve your sleep patterns in just a few weeks; spot the triggers that fuel sleep anxiety & the truth about magnesium, blue light, sleep tracking apps & the 8 hours myth exploded.
Plus: gym shorts - yay or nay? And the personality test which called one of your hosts “corrupt, evil and defective”!

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58 min
January 25 Our pick of the best TV, films, books, festivals to look forward to now plus a new breakfast treat
Lorraine & Trish start the year as they mean to go on with lots of laughter, positivity & plans for the months ahead. Discover how to create a ‘dopamine menu’ to get feel good vibes every day, the TV show that will warm your heart, books, films & festivals to put on your radar & breakfast ideas with a difference.

Plus: curse of the ‘plod bod’ & are you ready to ‘futz’?

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36 min
January 18 Stop everything! Lorraine & Trish are back with a sneak peak at the guests and topics for 2026
More comforting midlife mayhem as Lorraine & Trish get back in the saddle for Season 17. Find out what new, uplifting advice, experts and famous names are heading your way over the coming weeks - plus a little taster of the topics they'll cover. Plus pet news: will Margo still retain the role of official Pod Cat?

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8 min
December 21, 2025 Raynor Winn: my story of hope, endurance & love
POSTCARDS FROM MIDLIFE REVISIT: Author Raynor Winn joined Trish & Lorraine at the height of her Salt Path success to discuss how to overcome fear when life seems to be falling apart, living with her husband Moth's illness and the healing power of nature. And she reveals what happened when she first met Gillian Anderson who played Raynor in this year’s film of her life.

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1 hr 4 min
December 13, 2025 How to hack Xmas: gifts on a budget, games we love & a secret shortcut on managing family stress
Trish & Lorraine share the tips & tricks they’ve learned over their many years of planning & hosting family Christmases. Discover their ideal gift edit, the season’s coolest cocktail, their favourite friends & family games, plus how to set house rules & what to do if the whole thing fills you with dread
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33 min
December 07, 2025 Helpful life hacks: What we've learnt about weight loss drugs, relationship repair, imposter syndrome, perimenopause rage & single life
It’s a wrap! Lorraine & Trish share their favourite funny moments & useful learnings from this season’s expert & celebrity guests, including how to get into a fitness & strength mindset, what feeling anger & rage is trying to tell you, harnessing your vital midlife energy & the one question to ask yourself whenever you feel overwhelmed that’s guaranteed to reframe everything.

Plus: manifesting for beginners & a very unexpected thing to do with an avocado
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34 min
November 30, 2025 Surprising home cleaning hacks, set up a money-spinning side hustle & how to work with a friend
Trish & Lorraine are joined by sustainable, natural cleaning entrepreneurs Purdy Rubin & Charlotte Figg (aka Purdy & Figg) who share the best tips from their new book Clever Cleaning: The Natural Way To Clean Everything. Find out how the two midlife friends came up with the idea for their multi-million pound business, what you need to know if planning to work with family or friends, and the ‘A-ha moment’ when you know you’re onto a winner.

Plus: Have you got ‘Resting Midlife Woman Face’? & Trish’s Irish drinking song
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48 min

About Postcards From Midlife

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