ABOUT THE LIFE EDITS
Life rarely needs
blowing up.
Sometimes it just needs
reconsidering.
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The Life Edits began with a simple idea.
By the time we reach midlife, most of us have
built a life that works perfectly well on paper.
Careers, relationships, families,
responsibilities, routines.
We've become exceptionally
good at keeping all of it moving.
ABOUT THE LIFE EDITS
Life rarely needs
blowing up.
Sometimes it just needs
reconsidering.
The Life Edits began with a simple idea.
By the time we reach midlife, most of us have
built a life that works perfectly well on paper.
Careers, relationships, families,
responsibilities, routines.
We've become exceptionally
good at keeping all of it moving.
THE WOMAN BEHIND THE EDITS
Yes, there is a woman
behind all this.
I'm Lisa Chausset, founder and editor of The Life Edits.
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The Life Edits didn’t begin because I had midlife figured out. Quite the opposite.
After more than twenty years in corporate life, I reached a point where the version of success I had spent years building simply didn’t feel like mine anymore. On paper, very little was wrong. I had the career, the experience, the title and all the things we’re taught to keep climbing towards. But somewhere along the way, I’d stopped asking whether I actually wanted any of it.
Leaving corporate life gave me the space to start asking those questions properly, and The Life Edits grew out of what followed. Initially, I thought it would be about helping other women navigate their own midlife changes. In many ways it still is, but it has become something broader than that.
Because I’m still editing too.
My life today looks very different from the one I imagined even a few years ago, and I suspect it will look different again a few years from now.
I’ve changed how I work, how I define success, what I value, what I’m willing to tolerate and, perhaps most importantly, how much permission I give myself to change my mind.
I remarried at 56. I’m learning that a life can have purpose without everything in it needing to produce an income. And my French husband and I are now beginning another rather significant edit, searching for a home in France and figuring out what we actually want the next chapter of our life to look like.
We’re documenting that particular adventure separately over at The French Edit, because that story belongs to both of us. But inevitably, some of what it makes me question, rethink and learn will find its way back here.
Because The Life Edits has never really been about having midlife figured out. It’s about being willing to keep figuring it out.
And these days, I’m much less interested in being another expert standing at the front of the room telling women what their next chapter should look like. I’m far more interested in creating a place where we can talk honestly about the choices, contradictions, freedoms and occasional WTF moments that come with figuring it out for ourselves.
THE WOMAN BEHIND THE EDITS
Yes, there is a woman
behind all this.
I'm Lisa Chausset,
founder and editor
of The Life Edits.
The Life Edits didn’t begin because I had midlife figured out. Quite the opposite.
After more than twenty years in corporate life, I reached a point where the version of success I had spent years building simply didn’t feel like mine anymore. On paper, very little was wrong. I had the career, the experience, the title and all the things we’re taught to keep climbing towards. But somewhere along the way, I’d stopped asking whether I actually wanted any of it.
Leaving corporate life gave me the space to start asking those questions properly, and The Life Edits grew out of what followed. Initially, I thought it would be about helping other women navigate their own midlife changes. In many ways it still is, but it has become something broader than that.
Because I’m still editing too.
My life today looks very different from the one I imagined even a few years ago, and I suspect it will look different again a few years from now.
I’ve changed how I work, how I define success, what I value, what I’m willing to tolerate and, perhaps most importantly, how much permission I give myself to change my mind.
I remarried at 56. I’m learning that a life can have purpose without everything in it needing to produce an income. And my French husband and I are now beginning another rather significant edit, searching for a home in France and figuring out what we actually want the next chapter of our life to look like.
We’re documenting that particular adventure separately over at The French Edit, because that story belongs to both of us. But inevitably, some of what it makes me question, rethink and learn will find its way back here.
Because The Life Edits has never really been about having midlife figured out. It’s about being willing to keep figuring it out.
And these days, I’m much less interested in being another expert standing at the front of the room telling women what their next chapter should look like. I’m far more interested in creating a place where we can talk honestly about the choices, contradictions, freedoms and occasional WTF moments that come with figuring it out for ourselves.
THE LIFE EDITS
life, reconsidered.
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