Meet the Founder:
Hello and welcome to my world... My name is Angelina (Ange).
Like many women aged 45+, navigating my midlife chapter often felt like I was simply trying to survive the daily mayhem with 47 tabs open while sipping lukewarm tea. Somewhere along the way, I found myself asking questions I never expected to ask. Questions about identity, purpose, wellbeing and relationships, all while dreaming of a holiday... alone, perhaps indefinitely...
Other days I felt mentally exhausted, overwhelmed and was navigating menopausal symptoms that no one properly warned me about. Unsurprisingly, I occasionally found myself only slightly losing it as a result!
I created Mildly Unhinged Sister during a season of life; perhaps it’s an on-going season to be honest. I wanted to express the messy middle years, create a space where women can be seen, be understood and laugh a little more... Because sometimes laughter, preferably accompanied by a chocolate chip biscuit, can become one of our greatest survival tools.
I'm simply a woman who believes that reflection, humour and small actions taken like a determined snail (slow & steady) can help us reclaim joy and rediscover the woman who has been there all along, patiently waiting beneath the responsibilities, expectations and endless to-do lists.
My hope is to inspire women to honour who they are today, embrace who they are becoming and laugh a little more through the process.
After all, many of us continue to survive the daily mayhem, hold it all together but sometimes we occasionally find ourselves unravelling in the supermarket carpark, feeling like we are losing our marbles and questioning whether becoming mildly unhinged was ever mentioned in the brochure of life!
Frankly, I suspect the brochure explaining the instructions for midlife was lost in transit long ago!
On a positive note, perhaps in the process we're becoming more authentic and self-aware than we've ever allowed ourselves to be before. Perhaps this unravelling is quietly inviting us to make more intentional decisions that will better serve the woman we're becoming?
