Living Each Day
Like It’s Your First

How to see your life with fresh eyes.

You have spent years showing up for everyone else. What would it look like to make a little more room for yourself?

Through personal stories and honest conversations, I invite you to explore who you are beyond your responsibilities, reconnect with what matters and consider what you want next.

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By Colette Leeson.

The things that made her Irene

My mum’s page

Her family. Spain. Music and dancing. Her cats. Having her hair done. A wee wine or gin.

The story behind the book

It began with a page
on my mum’s door.

Mum had dementia. On the door of her room in residential care, a simple A4 page described the things she loved.

It helped people see Irene, the person behind the illness. And it left me with a question I could not quite put down: what would be on mine?

This book brings together my mum’s story, my own experience of beginning again at 55, conversations with women I admire and a heartfelt conversation with my sister that brought us closer.

What you’ll find in these pages

Space to ask,
“What matters to me now?”

For women who have spent years working, caring and being dependable, and for anyone curious about the next part of their life.

Something you recognise

Personal stories about family, identity and the roles we carry. Moments that may help you put words to questions of your own.

A different perspective

Conversations about change and beginning again, with room for different experiences and different ways forward.

A beginning that fits your life

Questions to help you notice what matters and consider one manageable step. You can begin with a conversation, an interest or a little time for yourself.

Notice. Question. Be curious. Begin.

“You can value the life you have lived and still be curious about what comes next.”
Colette Leeson

Colette beside a colourful mural on the Ormeau Road

Colette Leeson smiling during a conversation

Meet the author

I’m Colette.
I know what it means
to begin again.

At 55, after almost four decades in public service, I left my established career to build my own coaching business.

Today, I help people recognise their experience, rebuild confidence and take their next career step. Writing this book has meant asking some of those deeper questions of myself.

It is a personal story about my mum, my family and learning to make room for the things that make life feel like my own. Travel, music and dancing would definitely be on my page.

More about my coaching work

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Stay in the story

Be part of the
next chapter.

Thank you for being part of this with me.
Colette

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Living Each DayLike It’s Your First

My mum’s page

It began with a pageon my mum’s door.

Space to ask,“What matters to me now?”