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Take A Breath

A podcast for creating practical calm in the messy middle of midlife.This is your space to pause.Because life in midlife is full-on. Between work, family, menopause, and the mental load, your nervous system can easily end up in constant overdrive — leaving you feeling exhausted, reactive, and overwhelmed by even the smallest things.Each week, I’ll share my own tools, alongside honest conversations and practical nervous system support — to help you create more calm, peace, joy, and inner steadiness

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35:09

Thursday Thoughts - Consciously Creating Our Lives

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2025/01/30

On this week's Thursday's Thoughts, Lucy and I are talking about intentionally creating our lives.We have more agency over our lives than we realise, but most of us our unconsciously creating our realities, rather than consciously creating them.So…we need to make a decision to get intentional about what we want our life to look like, and we need to get conscious about how we’re thinking and how we’re feeling.In the unified, quantum field in which we are all swimming, all eventualities are pos...

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#108: Planning For End Of Life Care With Clare Fuller

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2025/01/28

What if you could ensure your healthcare wishes are honored, no matter what life throws your way?In this essential and practical episode, I chat to Claire Fuller, an expert in advanced care planning, to tackle a topic thatâs crucial for all of usânot just for aging parents or relatives but for ourselves, too.We dive into the often-overlooked process of preparing for end-of-life care. While it may seem like a heavy subject (donât worry, this episode isnât!), itâs something we all nee...

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Thursday Thoughts - Grit

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2025/01/23

This week on Monday Motivation, Lucy and I are diving into the topic of grit.As Angela Duckworth explains in her TED Talk and book, grit requires a combination of passion and perseverance to achieve long-term goals.We’ll explore why grit is such a vital ingredient for success and share how we both need lots of it to grow our businesses!We also give some practical tips on how to cultivate more of it in your life.We hope you find something inspiring and useful in this episode!Love,Polly & L...

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#107: Grief, Design & Midlife with DIY SOS's Gabby...

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2025/01/21

In this episode, I’m joined by my very good friend and talented designer Gabby Blackman, best known for her incredible work on BBC One’s DIY SOS.As well as talking about her experience and brilliant work on DIY SOS, Gabby also shares her deeply personal story, including the devastating loss of her son and how this life-altering experience continues to shape her perspective on both life and work. I'm deeply grateful for her honesty and vulnerability and hope that this conversation might offer ...

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29:07

Thursday Thoughts - Routines & Accountability

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2025/01/16

On today’s Monday Motivation, Lucy and I are talking about routines and accountability.The science shows that when we get accountability in place, we are 96% more likely to do the goddam thing. NINETY SIX PERCENT!!! In this conversation, Lucy and I share a little about our own experiences of accountability, including how I’ve had - for several years now - an accountability buddy who I phone (or who phones me!) every morning at 5am. Without that, I would likely never have got into the hab...

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#106: Thriving in Midlife with Tania Dalton

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2025/01/14

This week, I’m delighted to welcome Tania Dalton—health coach, certified personal trainer, and meditation teacher—to MENOMORPHOSIS! Together, we explore how midlife can be a golden opportunity to redefine ourselves, let go of societal expectations, and embrace the freedom and vitality this transformative phase brings.✨ In this episode, we discuss:How midlife challenges can become empowering opportunities.Tanya’s inspiring story of completing an Ironman during a pandemic.Redefining beauty as v...

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Thursday Thoughts - Embracing Winter

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2025/01/09

In this week’s Thursday's Thoughts, Lucy and I are diving into the theme of embracing winter.We’re exploring how our mindset shapes how we experience this time of year.Yes, we could spend the cold, dark months of January and February moaning and complaining—which, let’s be honest, only makes us feel worse…OR we can choose to embrace this season, making the most of the shorter days, the cosiness, and the crisp, cold weather.We’ll also be sharing some of our favourite tips and strategies for st...

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#105 Reinvention, Resilience, and Returning to...

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2025/01/07

After a 9-month break, I’m thrilled to announce that Menomorphosis is back with weekly episodes! To kick things off, I invited my friend Lucy to interview me—yes, on my own podcast! It felt a little strange, but it turned out to be so much fun, and I hope you enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed recording.In this episode, I share what I’ve been up to during my time away, the clarity and inspiration the break brought me, and my exciting plans for the future of Menomorphosis.Here’s what we talk...

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Thursday Thoughts - Who Do You Want To Be

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2025/01/02

On this week's Thursday Thoughts, Polly and I are asking the question: Who do you want to be?As we begin 2025, rather than focusing on our goals for the year ahead, or the actions we want to take, it can help enormously to think about who we actually want to be.So ask yourself: "What would the future version of me do right now?" "How would the version of me who is successful, healthy, wealthy be showing up today?" If we can aim to embody that future version of ourselves, then we will naturall...

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28:02

Thursday Thoughts - Rest

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2024/12/26

On this week's Thursday Thoughts, Lucy and I are diving into the topic of rest.Adequate rest and sleep have incredible benefits for cognition, disease prevention, and overall well-being, yet so many of us aren’t getting enough.We explore why rest can feel so challenging for some of us, share different ways to recharge, and offer practical tips to help improve your sleep.We hope you find something helpful or inspiring in our conversation!With love,Polly & Lucy xTo find out more about ...

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Thursday Thoughts - Integrity

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2024/12/19

On today’s Thursday's Thoughts, Lucy and I are talking about integrity.The word integrity means intact, whole, undivided; and the real question is: are we living in integrity, or are we out of integrity, divided from ourselves?In this conversation, Lucy and I talk about the societal conditioning that sends many of us down the ‘conveyor belt’ of life, away from our true nature and the things we truly desire for ourselves.We also talk about situations in which we both found ourselves living out...

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Thursday Thoughts - Perspective

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2024/12/12

On this week’s Thursdays Thoughts, Lucy and I are talking about perspective.Perspective is the way we see and interpret the world around us—it’s like the lens we choose to look through every day.It shapes how we handle challenges, make decisions, and connect with others.When we look through a positive, open perspective, we feel more resilient, grateful, and happy, while a negative one can leave us feeling stressed, frustrated or even stuck.The good news is, we can improve our perspective by p...

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Thursday Thoughts - The Final Few Weeks Or 2024

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2024/12/05

On this week's Thursday Thoughts, Lucy and I are talking about making the very most of these last few weeks of 2024.It’s so tempting at this time of year to let all of our routines fly out the window, or to put off starting something until January.But actually, NOW is the time to start, so that we head into 2025 with intention, feeling focused, and on a roll!We hope you’ll find something useful or inspiring in this conversation.Love,Polly & Lucy xTo find out more about my membership The I...

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Thursday Thoughts - The Let Them Theory

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2024/11/28

On this week's Thursday Thoughts, Lucy and I are talking about Mel Robbins' Let Them Theory — a simple idea that's all about letting go of the need to control or change how others think, act, or feel, about you or anything else.The idea is straightforward: when people behave in ways you don't like — whether they doubt you, ignore you, criticise you, laugh at you, disagree with you — your best move is to just...let them.This approach helps us to stop overthinking, trying to change other people...

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Thursday Thoughts - Possibility

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2024/11/21

On today’s Monday Motivation, Lucy and I are talking about possibility…So many of us hold ourselves back in life because we don’t think things are possible for us. We allow our limiting beliefs to convince us that this or that could “never happen for me.”But what if we start to cultivate a mindset that believes in possibility? What if we allow ourselves to dream that the things we truly desire ARE possible, if we just believe in ourselves, and start taking baby steps towards them?If we fight ...

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TT - Living with intention

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2024/11/14

On this week's Thursday Thoughts, Lucy & I are talking about living intentionally.Being intentional means cultivating awareness of how you're living and how you're showing up in the world. Without this awareness, it's easy to slip into autopilot, letting life pass us by without feeling like we're the ones in control.But when you choose to live with intention, you become conscious of where you're directing your thoughts and your energy.You become more present, making deliberate choices tha...

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Thursday Thoughts - Embracing Ageing

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2024/11/07

On this week's Thursday's Thoughts, Lucy and I are talking about embracing ageing.It’s time to change the narrative - and let’s face it, we’re talking about women here - that you are ‘past your sell by date’ once you hit 40, 50, 60 etc.The truth is that age brings with it so many wonderful things, not least confidence, wisdom and experience. And can choose to embrace getting older by looking after ourselves properly, and truly owning the fact that age is just a number. Because let’s not forge...

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Thursday Thoughts - Embracing Failure

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2024/10/31

On this week's Thursday Thoughts, Lucy & I are talking about embracing failure.We have been conditioned to see failure as something negative, but in fact failure is an important part of the learning process, and a very necessary step along the pathway to success.Polly & I discuss how failure gives us essential feedback, and how success is more about carrying on after a 'failure', rather than giving up.When it comes down to it, failure is something to be embraced, rather than something...

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Thursday Thoughts - Uncertainty

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2024/10/24

On this week's Thursday Thoughts, Lucy and I are talking about uncertainty.Despite being interrupted by Lucy's wifi man 🤣, we discussed how the magic and excitement of life lie on the other side of uncertainty; and it’s worth taking that leap into the unknown because, more often than not, the net appears!We hope you found something useful or interesting in here!Love,Polly & Lucy xTo find out more about my membership The Inner Space go to: https://www.pollywarren.com/theinnerspaceTo ...

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Thursday Thoughts - Reframing Time

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2024/10/17

On this week's Thursday Thoughts, Lucy & I are talking about reframing time.Many of us see time as something we're constantly running out of, leading to stress and unnecessary pressure. But what if we could reframe time as an abundant resource?Instead of feeling rushed or behind, we can choose to view each moment as a gift, a new opportunity to live fully and embrace the present.We hope you'll find something useful in here.Love,Polly & Lucy xTo find out more about my membership T...

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