"What do you want to do?" sounds like a simple enough question. But as a middle-aged mum juggling more balls than a travelling circus, it completely stopped me in my tracks when my life coach (we'll come back to this) asked me about my plans for Christmas.

For me - and I'm sure many others in the sandwich of midlife - that sentence carries so much weight of guilt, expectation and putting others first and making sure you are doing the 'right' thing, that when Roadblock Coach Mhairi Todd posed the question, I was floored.

I realised - or should I say Mhairi pointed out to me - that for the past decade since becoming a mum, and probably long before that, I had never thought about putting myself first at Christmas.

Life coach Mhairi Todd shares her advice for midlife women

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