What if midlife isn’t about fixing yourself — but remembering who you already are?
And what changes when you stop seeing your life as an accident and start seeing it as a miracle?

In this first Thinking Out Loud episode of Midlife Unfiltered, host Margit Cruice is joined by her partner Brett Clarke for an unpolished, spacious conversation about what it means to see yourself — and your life — differently in midlife.

Sparked by a poem and shaped by lived experience, the conversation gently explores the idea of being a miracle rather than a mistake, especially when life hasn’t unfolded the way you once imagined. Together, Margit and Brett reflect on ageing, self-worth, overthinking, stress, and the quiet pressure many women carry to have done “enough” by now.

Woven throughout is a deeper invitation: to soften, to be kinder to yourself, and to recognise the wisdom it has taken simply to arrive here. Nothing is resolved. Nothing is packaged. Just an honest remembering — and space for your own.

In this episode we explore:

• Seeing yourself as a miracle instead of an accident
• The midlife tension between striving and self-acceptance
• Why being “good enough” can feel radical at this stage of life
• Letting go of who you thought you’d be
• Stress, overthinking, and the cost of constant self-pressure
• Living more gently without giving up on life
• The quiet wisdom that comes from simply being here

01:00 – Dedication, ageing well, and what it means to enjoy life
01:30 – A poem about midlife reflection and missed truth
02:27 – Accident or miracle: how identity quietly forms
05:39 – Being worthy without earning it
06:39 – Overthinking, pressure, and remembering your nature
08:59 – Stress, ageing, and the cost of “not enough”
10:55 – Gentleness as a midlife practice
13:40 – The second half of the poem — and a softer truth

Margit Cruice is a midlife and leadership coach who believes this chapter of life can be one of the most expansive and liberating we’ll ever live. Drawing on decades of experience, sport, travel and deep personal inquiry, she creates spaces for honest conversations about identity, ageing and becoming.

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