Philippa Maguire

MidLifeMaxLife

Health EN ↓ 4 episodes

Welcome to The Mid-Life Collective Unwrapped, a raw, no-nonsense sanctuary for the Gen X woman navigating the exhausting intersection of mid-life burnout, chronic anxiety, and the identity shift of becoming an empty nester. If you are secretly drowning in executive dysfunction, unmasking a late-diagnosis ADHD or autism spectrum reality, or managing the chaotic daily load of neuro-spicy parenting, you are no longer alone. Subscribe today for actionable, sensory-safe frameworks to help you stop surviving, drop the mask, and rebuild your life alongside a collective of peers who truly get it.

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Philippa Maguire

Episodes

The Invisible Load: Why I didn’t have time for Mother’s Day I MidLifeMaxLife Ep. 1 10.07.2026 17:00

Sorry not a Doctor or Psychologist. Everything I know I learned on the job down in the trenches. What happens when you spend 25 years pretending to be okay, raising four children, and hyper-managing a household while masking undiagnosed neurodivergence? Your body eventually chooses a day for you to stop. In this raw and deeply honest first episode of MidLifeMaxLife , I share the hidden warning si...

The Invisible Load: The burnout was the easy part I Ep. 3 10.07.2026 16:58

Let me share ‘my’ reality of coming home and adjusting to life after my burnout in those early days. I may have looked like the same old person who left the house before my hospital stay, but on the inside, I was meeting a whole new me. The actual burnout was the easy part. I now had to navigate life as a completely different person if i wanted to continue existing in this tired, worn out body tha...

The Invisible Load: The Day the Mask Shattered I 2 08.07.2026 30:48

Sharing the day and moments leading up to my burnout which forced a hospital stay and an early retirement from teaching. What a gift 😁

Is that all you’ve got! 22.06.2026 1:47

Do they really think throwing in late diagnosis ADHD/ASD and mixing it with anxiety, chronic burnout which ended a career, menopause and everything else thrown at midlife women, all while raising a family, is going to stop us. Get real. You have to sling a lot more than that at us to keep us from getting back up. Come share my journey so that it may be the advice you need to hear to wake up and st...