05/09/2026
This is 45. 🤍
Not really a birthday post. More a little pause to look at where life has brought me.
At 45, I’m a mom to three children who somehow seem to be growing up far too quickly. Watching them become their own people is probably the part of getting older that makes me most aware of time passing.
I’m a wife, a doctor, a business owner, and still someone who regularly wonders how I’m going to fit everything into one day.
Five years ago, just after my 40th, we packed up our lives in South Africa and moved to Ireland. I started again professionally in a new country, built a career here, met incredible people, learned a huge amount, and this year took probably the biggest leap of all and opened my own practice.
At 45, my life certainly isn’t perfectly organised or all figured out.
But I know myself better.
I know what matters to me.
I know the kind of doctor I want to be.
I know the kind of business I want to build.
And, increasingly, I know when something isn’t right for me anymore.
I’m proud of what I’ve achieved, but perhaps even more proud of the life we’ve built as a family while doing it.
There are still so many things I want to do, places I want to see, things I want to learn, and plans I haven’t even made yet.
I don’t really feel like I’m getting older.
I feel like I’m getting closer to the life I want.
45. And very grateful to be here. 🤍
And now to end my birthday with the Katie Taylor fight! 🇮🇪🥊 After a Springbok win too 🇿🇦 Couldn’t have planned it better. 😄