Midlife isn’t a crisis.
It’s a Rewrite.
It’s when we disrupt the stories we tell ourselves and change the stories which shape our world.
Rewrite your story, reclaim your voice, and step into the next chapter with clarity and confidence.
Something in you knows it’s time.
Time to start the next chapter.
Maybe you feel the painful rub of dissatisfaction under a life that looks 'fine' on paper.
Maybe you've spent decades being reliable, responsible, the safe pair of hands to everyone else. Battering down the whisper that along the way you forgot to belong to yourself.
Maybe you know change is coming, but every time you glance toward it, familiar voices rise up:
Who do you think you are? … It's too late for you… Be grateful for what you have!
(Most of them sound like someone else considering they’re loud as a cornered cat in YOUR head!)
I know you hear it.
“You have helped me to start re-finding my younger self. Excited to look ahead. Open, relaxed, and freer. Just more me.”
— coaching client feedback —
Because even though you know, you’re just not ready to let go of the old story.
After all, it’s safe, it’s familiar. You can tell THIS story with your eyes shut.
The bad news is (I really don’t hate to break it to you, I delight in telling you this) it’s coming anyway. You can’t stop it.
The good news?
Midlife is not a crisis. It’s a rewrite.
You’re not broken. You’re not lost. You don’t need to fix ‘it’, or yourself, or them. You don’t need to hustle harder to silence the voice.
It’s just time.
Time to disrupt your stories. Time to remember who you are beneath the stories you were handed. Time to remind the world who the hell they’re messing with. Time to do the things that won’t quit nagging at you.
Scared yet? Excellent!
And I know you don’t want to heed it.
“I know without a shadow of doubt my project would still be on the shelf and I would have continued to prioritise everything else, and find all kinds of distractions to sabotage any efforts.”
— coaching client feedback —
Where do you start when you don’t know where to start?
This is where you begin. This is where we all begin.
Not with a five-step plan on special offer.
Not with relentless positivity.
Not with a bloody Facebook page.
You start with surrender.
With blowing gently on that small, stubborn ember of rebellion that won’t go out no matter how hard you stomp on it.
With listening to that whispering voice that says:
What if there's more for me than this?
This, right here, is where you begin.
Welcome. Tired rebel. Reluctant change seeker. Stubborn dreamer. You’re in the right place.
“The feeling of 'being understood' is what made me trust you so completely that I was able to be fully open about all my dreams, and fears.”
— coaching client feedback —
Rewrite Today. The newsletter.
Fortnightly letters filled with perspective shifts, journal prompts, and proof that you're not alone. It’s straight from my life to yours. The reality of navigating change.
It’s not ‘short and easily digestible’. It’s ‘put your damn feet up and prioritise-yourself-ible.’ You’ll thank me later.
Where do you want to begin?
Journaling Tools. The DIY tools you need for the change you want.
Downloadable journals and guides to help you map your next chapter at your own pace. You can work through them in total privacy or hit me up for a ‘HELP ME’ one session at a time.
The basic tools are on me. Upgrade when you’re ready.
Rewrite One Day. How brave are you?
A rare, radical, transformational One Day to disrupt the old stories and step into the life you were meant to live.
No pressure. No performative expectations. Just total permission. One day where your story comes first. One day where your next chapter gets written.
Whether you’re just beginning to question the life you’ve built, or deep in the messy middle of change, changing your story doesn’t happen when you know exactly what you’re doing, it happens when you’re ready to take the next step that you can. Change at your pace. Here are three ways I can help:
“…fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn’t …”
— Mark Twain —
I’m Marianne Rosen. Author. Writer. Coach. Disruptor of Stories.
For years, I tried to hold together all the right pieces, until I lost track of the parts of me that didn’t fit neatly inside a role.
Through career change, family upheaval, traumatic loss, and slow unbecoming, I learned the hardest part of change isn’t knowing what to do. It’s giving yourself permission to do it anyway.
That’s what I’m here for. To remind you that your life is yours to shape.
Consider it like having a weird-but-wise mentor as you set out on a quest... you might be thinking Gandalf, Sara Connor, Obi-Wan Kenobi, that kind of thing... I aim for a blend of Mary Wesley meets David Rose. Moderately disrespectful, mostly relentless.
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And if you’re still curious about me, you can read more about my journey to my own best chapter yet here including how I realised my childhood dream to be a published author.
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