Welcome to ‘From Midlife With Love’ with Katherine Baldwin, Author, Speaker & Coach
Hello and thank you for stopping by!
I’m Katherine, writer, author of How to Fall in Love, wellbeing speaker and transformational coach, and I’m here to share with you everything I have learned over a 22+ year personal development and healing journey about loving yourself, finding and keeping healthy love and creating a fulfilling, joyful life.
I promise heartfelt, vulnerable and emotionally intelligent writing on topics you truly care about.
I hope to move you with my words and support you with my work.
About Me
Twenty years ago, when I was 33, I was trapped in a painful cycle of binge eating, binge drinking, unhealthy relationships with unavailable men and over-working, all while reporting for the global news agency Reuters from Britain’s Houses of Parliament and trotting around the world with prime ministers. Confident and competent on the outside, I felt lost and empty on the inside.
Eventually, my mask cracked and I burnt out and broke down.
Two decades on, at 54, I have healed my eating disorder, my abusive relationship with alcohol and my self-harming patterns around men and work (although I can still over-work on occasion), quit my Reuters job, transformed my career, moved from London to the beach in Dorset, married a gorgeous man and created a beautiful new life as a transformational coach, author and speaker, supporting others to transform their lives and relationships.
That’s what this space is about - it’s about sharing my ongoing transformation with a view to supporting yours. It’s about finding purpose in my pain.
If you are interested in loving yourself and knowing yourself on a deeper level, in finding and keeping healthy love and in creating a fulfilling, joyful and balanced life, subscribe to ‘From Midlife With Love’.
Your Questions Answered
Here, I will write from the heart about my continuing growth and healing journey and offer words of wisdom and guidance to anyone grappling with the myriad of questions that I have faced, and largely found the answers to, over the past few decades, along with the questions I continue to explore.
Questions ranging from:
‘How on earth did I end up here? My life wasn’t supposed to look like this.’
‘Why am I single and why have none of my relationships worked out?’
‘Why am I childless? Do I want to have children? Can I still have children? How on earth am I going to have children if I don’t want them on my own but can’t make a relationship work? What do I do now that I don’t have children?’
‘Why do I feel soul-dead in this job I’ve given my life to?’
‘How do I transform my career and pursue my creative dreams when I’ve got a huge mortgage?’
‘Why am I so scared of people, of life, of everything, of being me, and how do I walk through my fears so that life doesn’t pass me by?’
There will be other questions too, of course, and I look forward to exploring them with you.
Subscriber Benefits
Subscribe to read intelligent articles, straight from my heart to yours, that support you to solve your biggest life and love dilemmas.
Most of my posts are free but paid subscribers receive some additional gifts including uplifting audio clips, journaling prompts and deep-dive articles, and there are more subscriber-only gifts in the pipeline so please consider joining the paid community. My heart also does a little jig when someone chooses to support my creativity.
More About Me
I am a trauma-informed love, dating and relationship coach, midlife mentor, retreat host, wellbeing and mental health speaker, TEDx speaker, author of ‘How to Fall in Love’ and an aspiring novelist (I’m writing commercial women’s fiction, a novel with a single, childless female lead who keeps falling for emotionally unavailable men, and I’m working on my second draft).
On a more personal level, I am a midlife woman (54 in June 2025) who, over the past 22+ years, has overcome a binge eating disorder, addictive behaviours around alcohol, work and romantic relationships, and healed soul sickness, chronic dissatisfaction and an existential crisis, all of which I was grappling with while working in a high-flying role as a political journalist.
In recent years, I have delved deeply into my developmental trauma (Complex PTSD) and understood myself, and therefore my clients and readers, on a much deeper level.
I am fiercely determined. I endeavour to tell the truth, to myself and others. I am authentic, vulnerable and real.
And I continue to recover, to heal and grow.
Writing has been my life.
I arrived as a backpacker in Mexico in my twenties and began working as a journalist. I burnt out in my late thirties while working as a political reporter in Britain’s Houses of Parliament. I found my love of writing again when I launched my blog, From Forty With Love, as I turned 40.
That blog, which I have maintained for 13 years and counting, charts my journey from being a confused and bemused single woman who didn’t understand why all her relationships failed, who thought she might want kids and didn’t know what to do with her life to being a 50-something, happily married coach, author, speaker and entrepreneur, living by the beach, writing books and supporting others to transform.
Where to find me
You can follow me on Notes here on Substack, on Instagram and explore my website here. For other social media links, please take a look at my Linktree.
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