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Relationship Reset: From People-Pleaser To Peaceful Connections
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Corso di 20 giorni

Relationship Reset: From People-Pleaser To Peaceful Connections

Di Sally Oddy

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Midlife brings a shift most women don’t expect: you grow but the people around you don’t always grow with you. Old dynamics stop feeling right. Your tolerance for disrespect, emotional labour, and pretending gets lower. Your intuition gets louder. And suddenly, the relationships that once felt comfortable now feel heavy, confusing, or misaligned. This course is your guide through that shift. Across twenty deeply grounding lessons, you’ll learn how to: ✨ understand why midlife changes your relationships ✨ stop people-pleasing and reclaim your voice ✨ set boundaries that protect your energy, not control others ✨ calm emotional reactivity and stop carrying what isn’t yours ✨ navigate disappointment, jealousy, grief and growing apart ✨ let go quietly, without confrontation or guilt ✨ reconnect with your true self after years of self-abandonment ✨ build healthier, calmer, more reciprocal relationships ✨ choose connections that match the woman you’re becoming This is not about fixing others. It’s about coming home to yourself so every relationship in your life - family, friends, partners, colleagues - becomes clearer, more honest, and more aligned. If you’ve evolved… if you’re tired of the old roles… if you’re craving peace, respect, and authenticity… …this course will help you understand what’s happening, reclaim your power, and move through your relationships with confidence, compassion and calm.

Sally Oddy

Leeds, UK

Sally Oddy is a writer and guide whose work centres on personal growth, self-leadership, and emotional clarity. With decades of experience supporting individuals through major life transitions, she brings a calm, steady approach to navigating the deeper layers of identity, boundaries, and relationships. Sally draws on her own long journey of...

Lezione 1
Why Midlife Changes Your Relationships
In this opening lesson, we explore why relationships often begin to feel different during midlife and periods of personal growth. You’ll learn what’s really shifting beneath the surface as you evolve, why old dynamics may feel heavier or misaligned, and how changing roles and identity influence the way you relate to others. This lesson also offers simple grounding practices to help you stay centred as you move through these changes with clarity and self-respect.
Lezione 2
The Real Meaning Of Boundaries
This lesson explores what healthy boundaries truly are, why they become especially important in midlife, and how they protect your emotional and energetic wellbeing. You’ll learn to recognise when boundaries are needed, why certain people struggle with them, and how to begin setting clear, calm, respectful limits. The lesson ends with simple practical tools to help you honour your limits with confidence.
Lezione 3
Saying No Without Guilt
This lesson explores why saying no can feel uncomfortable, especially when long-held roles, expectations, and patterns have taught you to prioritise others over yourself. You’ll learn what makes “no” emotionally charged, why guilt appears even when you’re doing the right thing, and who is most likely to react when your boundaries change. This lesson also offers practical tools for building confidence in saying no, including small daily practices, clarity-building questions, and calm, grounded communication techniques.
Lezione 4
Outgrowing Old Roles
This lesson explores the emotional and relational impact of outgrowing the roles you’ve carried for years - the fixer, the peacekeeper, the reliable one, the strong one. You’ll learn why these roles formed, why they become uncomfortable during midlife, and how shedding them can create both relief and loneliness. The lesson includes practical tools to help you gently release outdated identities, honour your needs with more honesty, and begin showing up as the person you’re becoming rather than the version others expect you to be.
Lezione 5
Navigating Disrespect
This lesson explores the subtle and often confusing forms of disrespect that become harder to ignore in midlife. You’ll learn why certain comments, behaviours, or dynamics suddenly feel heavier, why you’re no longer able to tolerate what you once absorbed, and how to recognise the quiet ways disrespect erodes your energy and confidence. This session also offers practical, grounded tools to help you name your truth, respond with clarity, and protect your self-respect without conflict or self-abandonment.
Lezione 6
Letting Go Of Judgment - Yours & Theirs
This lesson explores the emotional weight of judgment in midlife - both the judgment directed at you by others and the quiet, internal judgment you place on yourself. You’ll learn why judgment becomes more noticeable and painful as you evolve, what it often reveals beneath the surface, and how it influences your sense of identity and connection. The session includes practical tools to help you observe judgment without absorbing it, understand the deeper needs it points to, and respond to yourself with compassion instead of criticism.
Lezione 7
Expectations & Disappointment
This lesson explores how expectations - spoken and unspoken - shape your relationships and why they feel heavier and more emotionally charged in midlife. You’ll learn the deeper roots of disappointment, the three types of expectations that most often create tension, and why unmet expectations can feel so personal. The session also includes practical tools to help you separate reality from fantasy, communicate your needs with more clarity, and find acceptance without abandoning yourself or lowering your standards.
Lezione 8
What Jealousy Is Really Telling You
This lesson explores jealousy as a source of insight rather than shame. You’ll learn why jealousy feels more intense in midlife, what it reveals about your unmet desires, and how it often reflects a part of yourself you’ve suppressed or forgotten. The session includes practical tools to help you translate jealousy into clarity, uncover the deeper longing beneath the feeling, and take small, self-led actions that move you toward what you truly want - instead of comparing yourself to others.
Lezione 9
Emotional Reactivity & Triggers
This lesson explores why emotional triggers feel more intense in midlife and what they’re actually pointing to beneath the surface. You’ll learn how past experiences, unmet needs, and old patterns influence your reactions, and why your body often responds before your mind can make sense of it. The session includes practical tools to help you pause when activated, create inner safety, and identify whether a boundary or a need is calling for your attention - allowing you to respond with clarity rather than spiralling into old patterns.
Lezione 10
Self-Worth & Self-Compassion
This lesson explores how your sense of worth and the way you speak to yourself shape every relationship in midlife. You’ll learn why old roles, shifting identities, and years of self-sacrifice can leave your confidence feeling shaky, and how the inner critic often reflects conditioning rather than truth. The session offers practical tools to help you rebuild a kinder inner dialogue, anchor into inherent self-worth, and create a more compassionate relationship with yourself - so you can show up in your relationships with clarity, steadiness, and emotional honesty.
Lezione 11
Emotional Independence
This lesson explores the subtle yet powerful ways emotional dependence shapes your relationships in midlife. You’ll learn how a lifelong habit of seeking approval, reassurance, and permission from others can quietly undermine your self-trust, drain your energy, and keep you from making choices that honour your truth. The session offers practical tools to help you recognise emotional dependence in real time, reclaim your inner authority, and begin validating yourself from within - allowing you to show up in relationships with clarity, confidence, and emotional freedom.
Lezione 12
Detachment With Love
This lesson explores what healthy detachment truly means and why it becomes essential in midlife. You’ll learn how to stay connected to others without absorbing their emotions, carrying their responsibilities, or losing yourself in the process. We’ll look at why detachment can feel uncomfortable at first, how lifelong patterns of rescuing and over-functioning make it difficult, and how to begin practising detachment in a way that feels compassionate rather than cold. The session includes practical tools to help you support the people you care about without abandoning your own emotional centre.
Lezione 13
The Grief Of Changing Relationships
This lesson explores the quiet, often unspoken grief that arises when relationships shift as you grow in midlife. You’ll learn why even healthy change can feel emotionally painful, what you’re truly grieving when a relationship no longer fits, and how clarity, honesty, and self-awareness bring a deeper understanding of these transitions. The session includes practical tools to help you name the real source of your grief, accept the new shape of a relationship without shutting down your heart, and gently release what no longer aligns - while honouring the love and history that once existed.
Lezione 14
When People Don’t Grow With You
This lesson explores the painful but natural gap that appears when your personal growth accelerates and others remain where they are. You’ll learn why this difference becomes unmistakable in midlife, how it impacts your sense of connection, and what it means when old dynamics no longer fit the woman you’re becoming. The session offers practical tools to help you recognise the gap without shrinking yourself, adjust the emotional distance with compassion, and stay open-hearted while honouring your own expansion. It’s a grounding, honest exploration of how to navigate relationships that can’t meet you at your new level of awareness.
Lezione 15
Reclaiming Your Voice
This lesson explores what it really means to reclaim your voice in midlife - after years, or even decades, of silencing yourself to keep the peace, avoid conflict, or stay in familiar roles. You’ll learn why your voice faded in the first place, why midlife naturally brings it back, and how speaking honestly transforms your relationships. The session includes practical tools to help you express your truth calmly, hold boundaries without apologising, and stop repairing other people’s reactions. It’s a gentle yet powerful guide to becoming fully heard again - without aggression, fear, or self-abandonment.
Lezione 16
Self-Leadership In Relationships
This lesson explores what it truly means to lead yourself in your relationships — not by controlling others or suppressing emotions, but by staying anchored in your own truth, needs, and values. You’ll learn why self-leadership becomes essential in midlife, how old roles and patterns pull you out of alignment, and the tell-tale signs that you’re reacting rather than leading. The session includes practical tools to help you pause before responding, speak from clarity instead of fear, and stop fixing or absorbing other people’s emotions. It’s a powerful shift from managing relationships to guiding yourself with strength and presence.
Lezione 17
Boundaries For Energy, Not Control
This lesson explores a different kind of boundary - one that isn’t about rules, confrontation, or telling others how to behave. You’ll learn how to protect your emotional space by managing your capacity, your availability, and the energetic impact people have on you. This session dives into the subtle signs that your energy is being drained, why midlife makes these patterns impossible to ignore, and how to set quiet, internal boundaries that honour your wellbeing without conflict. You’ll receive practical tools to help you step back into yourself, shorten draining loops, and respond to others from a grounded, centred place.
Lezione 18
How To Let Go Without Confrontation
This lesson explores the quiet, self-honouring way of releasing relationships, roles, or dynamics that no longer align with who you’re becoming - without drama, conflict, or forced closure. You’ll learn why letting go can feel difficult, why midlife makes soft release necessary, and how to step back gently without guilt or self-judgment. The session offers practical tools to help you create internal closure, reduce emotional entanglement, and make space for peace without needing anyone else to change or agree. It’s a compassionate guide to honouring endings in a way that protects your energy and preserves your integrity.
Lezione 19
Reconnecting With Yourself First
This lesson explores how to rebuild the most important relationship you have - the one with yourself. You’ll learn how years of caretaking, pleasing, and over-functioning can quietly disconnect you from your own needs, intuition, and desires, and why midlife naturally calls you back home to yourself. The session offers practical tools to help you check in with your inner world, follow the subtle impulses that guide you back to authenticity, and make decisions based on your own truth rather than others’ expectations. It’s a gentle, powerful reminder that healthy relationships begin with a solid connection to who you really are.
Lezione 20
Building Calmer, Healthier Relationships In Midlife
This final lesson brings together everything you’ve explored throughout the course to help you create relationships that feel aligned, steady, and emotionally nourishing. You’ll learn what “healthy” truly looks like in midlife, why your needs and values shift so profoundly at this stage, and how to choose and nurture connections that match the woman you’ve become. The session includes practical tools to help you communicate with clarity, choose relationships from alignment rather than history, and maintain a grounded connection with yourself as the foundation for all your interactions. This is your guide to moving forward with peace, truth, and confidence in how you relate.

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Carol
January 12, 2026
Thank you! I feel more aligned with myself. Before this course I thought I was going through a midlife crisis. Now I look at it as a midlife growth. I feel more at peace and joy within and not some sort of oddity. Thanks again. 😊🙏🏻🦋🌱
ilinca
December 14, 2025
Excellent course. Opened my eyes to understand the meaning of my current life events. The solutions are easy and practical 🥰 Thank you for creating this helpful course 🙏🪷
Lori
December 13, 2025
This course was Amazing! Thank you so much for each insightful lesson and the concrete tools to put things into practice! 🥰
MaryJane
December 8, 2025
I have found this course to be extremely impactful and so different from any I’ve experienced previously. It meets you exactly where you are in this stage of life. Thank you!

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