Naughty but knife at the airport, and reclaiming your health in midlife

I’m writing this from Bordeaux airport, where once again, my flight is delayed five hours due to technical problems. Get your act together BA!

My son, Léo, who always mocks me mercilessly for getting stopped by airport security (I fit the drug mule profile to a T), got his comeuppance today. The x-ray machine flagged a knife at the bottom of his computer case. It wasn’t an innocuous penknife either; it was a really heavy-duty ‘don’t mess with me’ sort of switchblade, the sort you would expect to come across in a dark alley at three in the morning. Security took him aside and asked him about it—interrogated him really—and he explained that he’d forgotten it was there, and that he mostly used it to trim the grapevines and slice his lunchtime chorizo sausage! They confiscated the knife and let him go, presumably having reached the conclusion that a potential terrorist probably wouldn’t spontaneously roll out the vine and chorizo excuse.

I exchanged my Mother of a Terrorist hat for my Natural Health Coach hat and had a conversation with Tamsin Jardinier of Unfolding Conversations, on the topic of reclaiming your health during midlife.

Tamsin offers whole-centered coaching to support high-achieving women, leaders, creatives, and entrepreneurs who are ready to reimagine life and work to create success on their own terms, and live a life they truly love.

And here is our conversation