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  <div class="message">Late Bloomers: women who hit their stride when the world wasn’t looking(and why that gives the rest of us room)Hi friends,I come from late bloomersMy dad was almost 103 when he died. Lucid and sharp to the end. Hearing like a bat. He worked until he was 90 and cared for my mum after a brain injury she lived with from when I was seven. He couldn’t sit still. He believed in formal education—his </div>
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  <div class="message">Hi friends,THE LONG DRY SPELLIt’s been over 3 years since I wrote a song I was happy with. I don’t like to say it out loud. It feels like a failure. I used to sit down anytime and write. During the lockdowns of Covid I learnt to record and produce, released an album, toured it through the stop–start of restrictions. It feels foggy now. When I got home to Australia after the last U.S. dates, I was</div>
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  <a href="https://lisarichardsworld.blogspot.com/2025/09/september-creativity-as-a-lifeline.html">Why Writing A Song Can Help When Talking Is Impossible</a>&nbsp;
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  <div class="message">Why Writing a Song Can Be More Healing Than Talking About ItSome days the words just don’t come out. You can’t find the words to express the intensity of what you are feeling. Or the only movement you can muster is to pick up an instrument and howl.I’ve had plenty of those days. Talking can help. Sometimes it doesn’t. A small song can.Why a song helps when talking stallsA song gives shape. Verse,</div>
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  <div class="message">Hi friends,Spring is a change you can feel. The air warms earlier.  Mornings brighten. In Australia it’s September to November on the calendar, but it lands first in the body—“open the window” weather.Winter can make things small. Quiet. Barren. I’ve parked whole parts of myself to get through it. Work first. Family first. Creativity last.  My voice went on hold while I waited for life </div>
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  <div class="message">Hey friend,Does your voice feel tired, achey, tight, or croaky by 3pm? … if people ask you to repeat yourself… if you end a day of meetings with a sore throat and a headache—this is fixable. Not by pushing harder. By changing how you use your voice.Clear, confident, heard: for women at work:  What’s The Problem?Speaking lower than is natural for you…Plenty of women (and men) try to hold the </div>
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  <div class="message">Let’s be real:Midlife isn’t a crisis.It’s not a flaw to fix or a hill to coast down.And despite what the ads tell you, you don’t need to shrink, lift, tuck, tone, or “bounce back” from it. It’s the moment you finally remove the filters, say what you mean. It’s the mic drop you didn’t know you were building toward.Messy? Yes.Powerful? Absolutely.Creative? In ways you probably never </div>
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  <div class="message">You know that moment when you want to sing—but you don’t?You open your mouth and… nothing. Or something small. Croaky. Hesitant.It’s a whisper. Or you don’t even try. You just say: “Oh, I can’t sing.”Not true.But I get it.Here’s what I hear from people all the time:“I was told to mime in the school choir.”“I used to sing all the time, but somewhere along the way… I stopped.”“I feel stupid when I </div>
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  <div class="message">Hey,Let’s talk about something most performers don’t say out loud.The show’s over.The lights are down.The adrenaline has done its job—and now you’re back in the car, or on the couch, or in bed… wide awake or weirdly flat.That feeling?That hollow, buzzing, what-now drop?That’s the come-down. And it’s real.It’s Not Just In Your HeadWhen we perform—especially in front of an audience—our bodies flood</div>
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  <div class="message">Hi there,There’s a quote I first read over 30 years ago that blew my mind.Not because it was poetic or inspiring—but because it knew me. Like, inside-out, read-my-mail, pull-the-curtain-back knew me. And it didn’t flinch.It was a letter Martha Graham wrote to choreographer Agnes De Mille in the 1940s. I was living in New York City at the time, trying to make sense of my creative impulses, my </div>
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  <div class="message">Hey there,If I had a dollar for every time someone told me, “Oh, I can’t sing—I’m tone deaf,” I’d be lazily sipping iced coffee on a beach somewhere instead of writing this post.Here’s the truth:Tone deafness is extremely rare. Like, clinically diagnosed and affects less than 5% of the population rare. And yet, so many people carry around this label like it’s a permanent tattoo. Usually slapped </div>
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