by Diane Lloyd | Jul 22, 2025 | Coaching, Leadership, Listening
Your inner wisdom is calling! Will you answer? For most of my life, I haven’t been very good at listening to my body. It’s not like I ignored it on purpose; it was more that I didn’t understand the language it was using. My body has been calling out, but I haven’t...
by Diane Lloyd | Apr 9, 2025 | Coaching, Leadership
The Efforting Trap Yesterday at the end of a yoga class the instructor shared a sentence that made me pause. “We’ve got one body. We’ve got one life. Let’s enjoy it.” This simple but profound reminder made me reflect on what’s happening...
by Diane Lloyd | Feb 4, 2025 | Coaching, Leadership
I’m Done Performing for Patriarchy I’m enjoying midlife and up until recently, I couldn’t really pinpoint why. I feel powerful, creative; my relationship with myself and my intuition has never been stronger. In a word, I feel free. But free from what? It’s a question...
by Diane Lloyd | Jan 27, 2025 | Coaching, Listening
I am noticing a theme in the incredible midlife women I am surrounded by these days. We are picking our heads up, scanning our lives and wondering ‘how did we get here’? The years have gone quickly, and there is so much more for me, I know there is. But how do I...
by Diane Lloyd | Jan 8, 2025 | Coaching, Leadership
Midlife is often portrayed in our culture as a time of decline, a season where growth slows, and possibilities narrow. I caught myself buying into this narrative as my 57th birthday approached in early January. I was feeling so much resistance to this age because I...
by Diane Lloyd | Nov 19, 2024 | Coaching, Leadership
As I’ve written before in this space, on June 28, 2024, Brené Brown made an important announcement to the Dare to Lead™ facilitator community that she had sold the training rates for the program to the digital coaching company, BetterUp. (You can read my...