Soulstice Society

A place for navigating change

Pause deeply | connect honestly | Live courageously

A safe community circle for those of us who enjoy honest conversation and seek meaningful connections.

Through our newsletters, podcasts, online get-togethers, and in-person events, we create brave spaces to talk about what matters, what's changing, and what brings us joy.

You don't have to be at a crossroads of crisis or have a perfect story to tell. Courage, curiosity and a desire for good company is more than enough.

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LISTEN

Tune into our podcast for honest, informal conversations about life, change and finding your way. Different voices; shared experiences and stories that stay with you

REFLECT

Find a little breathing room in your inbox from time to time. Thoughtful insights and simple practices to help you stay centred, feel grounded and reconnect with what matters most, wherever you might be.

CONNECT

Online get-togethers, chats and discussion - where you can actually be part of the conversation, hear from other women, and find familiar faces in an increasingly isolated world.

Stories promote growth in others. Our words plant seeds that grow with those who read them

CONTRIBUTE

Have a story to share, a question you’d love us to explore, or something you’ve learned along the way? Bring your voice to Soulstice. What matters to you could be where our next conversation begins.

I am creating a space where friendships can take root, be nurtured, and grow into lasting connections. A place where real isn’t rare. Where we can laugh freely, speak honestly, be seen and feel heard.

Because the best kind of closeness to each other, gives us room to be ourselves and the courage to explore who we’re becoming. And sometimes, the people we meet change the course of our lives.

The people with whom I have shared some important life-chapters, have all helped shape who I am. Through friendship, shared experiences, and conversations that stayed with me, I’ve come to value how much we can offer one another.

As we move into life after 50, there is so much worth talking about. What matters to us now? What do we want more of? What are we ready to leave behind? There may be habits that have shrunk in the wash, possibilities we hadn’t considered, or a growing desire to say "No. That excuse no longer serves me."

We bring people together to share what’s on their minds and listen to one another. Come with something to say, or nothing at all. Something to explore, or simply a wish for good company.

There’s no need to have anything remotely figured out.

Speak soon ! Vanessa.

Soulstice Society Pod-casting call!

All of us have stories. Some of them we are happy to share. Others, not so much...

Our podcasts do not seek to feature guests with tales of polished success, nor perfect reinventions.

We are not looking for all the answers.

We’re interested in the moments when life changed direction.

The career that stopped fitting.
The relationship that ended.
The move you never expected to make.
The identity you outgrew.
The idea that failed and felt like a loss
The chapter that began before you felt ready.

The Soulstice podcasts will be a series of honest conversations about change, identity, starting again, and what happens when we begin building a life that feels more like our own.

And you are the guests...

Lived experience is such a precious commodity. To share it is both courageous and sacred, whether your change was enormous or un-noticed by everyone but you.

You don’t need to be an expert, or a seasoned public speaker. We are far more interested in your story than any credentials.

So what's your story?..

I would like to learn more about participating

Soulstice Society - "The Sprit Level"

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One Degree at a Time - Lasting Change

If you have ever felt yourself in the middle of a big shift, you are not alone. Almost everyone I have spoken to lately, including all of us here at Platform 13, has felt some degree of change moving through their lives. Some of it is planned, and some of it arrives uninvited, like an unwanted house guest. The reasons vary, and it isn't really about astrological charts or timing. It is simpler than that: change is always upon us. Much like the waves, changes come and go, cons

Vanessa Grant

5 min read

When concern becomes control

Somewhere, right now, a figure is sat at a kitchen table before dawn. The house is silent, the coffee beside them is a warm version of hot, and the only light is thrown by the open window of a glowing laptop. The rest of the house is fast asleep... I imagine them being tired. Not because they manage their time poorly, or enjoy working silly hours, but because this piece of personal sacrifice, was the only way to protect something else. Perhaps they promised the afternoon to h

John Duffield

6 min read

Closure... the knock that never comes.

Closure. It's one of those words that sounds like it should solve something. Firm, clinical, faintly medical - the sort of word a doctor might use, or an estate agent. Somewhere between stitches and stitch-ups...It has the satisfying sound of a door shutting properly, seat belt fastened, an attaché case - closed and clicked. We reach for it constantly and perhaps a bit unconsciously. "I just need some closure..." "She never got closure..." "It gave me the closure I was lookin

John Duffield

5 min read

Judgement - The fear beneath the habit...

Yes... we all of us like to imagine that judgement is simply something that other people do. That we don't judge. That our opinions are as neutral as a Swiss watch. We even use qualifiers like "I am not judging here, but..." in celebration of that marvellous expression, "Everything that comes before "but"... is B.S." We are persuaded that it is only other people that are so critical... Other people are so narrow-minded. Other people are sitting somewhere, in deep Facebook, ma

Vanessa Grant

5 min read

Regret - The tender trap of "if only"...

There is something very unsettling about regrets. With me, they have a score of almost zero on the mental, feel-good scale. A bin of despair, out of which we must occasionally haul ourselves, using the ropes of clever mantras and helpful sayings, like "Well if I hadn't have done that, I wouldn't be where I am now" - wordy platitudes, which while indisputably true, barely contain the comfort of a decent slice of chocolate cake. Regrets are our mental, feel-bad reels. Wholesale

Vanessa Grant

7 min read

Comparison - The quiet theft of "enoughness".

Comparisons... just one more item, on an ever-expanding buffet of human habits, capable of turning a perfectly good morning into a very bad one, in the blink of an eye. We might wake up, feeling relatively chipper, coffee in hand, birds-a-chirping, hair acceptable, with a B+ for emotional stability. And then Wham!.. Your online scrolling uncovers some bloke you sort-of-knew at school, standing shirtless and barefoot in a Tuscan lemon grove, beside his perfect CEO wife who res

Vanessa Grant

5 min read

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