The Messy Middle
Workshops
Created with women, like you in mind, providing a space to reconnect with yourself and others in a fun and empowering environment.
Through activities like diving into your make up bag, beginning a journalling practice or getting those big ideas on a vision board you'll embark on a journey of self-discovery and personal growth.
These workshops are all about helping you gain the confidence to be seen and heard, embracing the completely marvellous woman within, and setting her on a purposeful path — all while sharing laughter and camaraderie with like-minded women.
Come and join us as we explore, learn, and empower each other to shine brightly in this exciting and as yet unwritten chapter of life.
Available for private events and corporate bookings - Contact for a quote
The Messy Middlescence Retreat
If you're a woman in midlife, chances are you've sweated in a black bin bag as you danced to The Jacksons' "Can You Feel It" with Jane Fonda.
You’ve been jiggled to death on a toning table. And busted a gut in HIIT.
For many women in the messy middle, we’ve been—or still are—in the trenches, experiencing the joys of menopause!
Oh, how we've laughed through the sleepless nights, itchy skin, weight gain, hot flushes, anxiety, lost confidence, and the errr... What was I saying? Oh yes, the brain fog!
We might be sandwiched between caring for elderly parents and dealing with testing teens, or maybe our chicks have flown the nest, leaving us wondering who the heck we are and why everything hurts.
Let’s face it, we’re ready for a lie down.
At The Messy Middlescence Retreat, we’re here for the gentle, stretchy bliss of Yoga Nidra, Sound Healing, and Meditation with Lorraine from Raine and Shine Yoga, along with the Journey through Journaling with life coach and NLP practitioner Sharon Wilkes-Burt.
But we’re also ready to lighten the funk up, have a good old belly laugh, bust some moves, and marvel at the merits of midlife.
This is no ordinary retreat! As much as we love crystals, incense, and all things woo, we're also women who revel in sharing stories, eating chocolate, and rushing to the dance floor the second ABBA's "Dancing Queen" plays.
You know this is the retreat you've been waiting for, and Lorraine and Sharon are so excited to welcome you into their messy middlescence world!
The Make Up Shake Up Workshop
What delights are lurking in your make up bag that you have no idea how to use?
Where do you even place your eyeshadow now that your eyelids are hiding under folds of skin?
What does contouring even mean?!
Midlife is a season of change - some changes welcome, some less so!
Confidence for many women is often on the hit list of things that plummet quicker than you can say ... Hormones!
Bring your make up bag, your ‘do it all’ make up brush and your bestie for a few hours of learning, lols and lipstick.
This is a judgement free zone so there’ll be no eyebrows raised at your 20yr old eyeshadow palette.
There’ll be nibbles and refreshments as you learn new tips and tricks that will boost your confidence in how, what and where you apply your make up.
The Make Up Shake Up - Lip Lab Edition
What delights are lurking in your make up bag that you have no idea how to use?
Where do you even place your eyeshadow now that your eyelids are hiding under folds of skin?
What does contouring even mean?!
Midlife is a season of change - some changes welcome, some less so!
Confidence for many women is often on the hit list of things that plummet quicker than you can say ... Hormones!
Bring your make up bag, your ‘do it all’ make up brush and your bestie for a few hours of learning, lols and lipstick.
This is a judgement free zone so there’ll be no eyebrows raised at your
20yr old eyeshadow palette.
There’ll be nibbles and refreshments as you learn new tips and tricks that will
boost your confidence in how, what and where you apply your make up.
The Make Up Shake Up Workshop
What delights are lurking in your make up bag that you have no idea how to use?
Where do you even place your eyeshadow now that your eyelids are hiding under folds of skin?
What does contouring even mean?!
Midlife is a season of change - some changes welcome, some less so!
Confidence for many women is often on the hit list of things that plummet quicker than you can say ... Hormones!
Bring your make up bag, your ‘do it all’ make up brush and your bestie for a few hours of learning, lols and lipstick.
This is a judgement free zone so there’ll be no eyebrows raised at your 20yr old eyeshadow palette.
There’ll be nibbles and refreshments as you learn new tips and tricks that will boost your confidence in how, what and where you apply your make up.