“I believe midlife is a pathway to who you really are.”

Michelle Hallum

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I’m Michelle Hallum, a midlife coach based in Costa Brava, Catalonia, supporting women navigating perimenopause, menopause and the emotional transitions of midlife. I work with women locally in Girona and Barcelona, and online worldwide. Here’s a little about what I believe and why I work with midlife women like you.

Growing up shaped by expectations

Like many midlife women, I learned early to be capable, agreeable and to keep going without taking up too much space.

I adapted constantly. I met expectations at home, at work and in relationships, and in doing so I drifted away from what I actually felt or needed. From the outside, I functioned well. Inside, I felt tired and quietly disconnected.

Many women recognise this pattern. We adjust ourselves to belong. Only later do we begin to feel the cost.

The in-between space

Midlife rarely arrives with clarity. More often, it begins as a loosening.

Strategies that once worked start to falter. Energy shifts. Identities soften. Questions rise that can’t be solved by trying harder. For many women, perimenopause intensifies this transition — physically and emotionally.

What once felt manageable becomes harder to ignore. A deeper part of you begins asking for attention, not to fix what is broken, but to question what no longer feels true.

A natural stage of growth

I understand midlife as a developmental passage — a necessary turning inward.

Like any rite of passage, it brings loss as well as possibility. Something must be shed before renewal can begin. This understanding shapes how I work with midlife women: slowly, respectfully and without rushing the process or forcing outcomes.

I create a steady, contained space where silenced or neglected parts of you can re-emerge, and where change unfolds in its own time.

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