2025 PROGRAM
Beyond the Hot Flush: Rewriting Midlife with Michelle Bridges
DATE:
Sunday 22 March, 2026
LOCATION:
Hotel Steyne
COST:
$55.00
Forget the clichés — this is not your mother’s menopause talk. Join bestselling author and fitness icon Michelle Bridges for a candid, empowering conversation about peri- and menopause, ageing well, and embracing the next chapter with strength, humour and self-compassion. Over a relaxed breakfast, Michelle will share her insights on navigating physical and emotional changes, reframing midlife, and finding renewed purpose in life’s “second act.”
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY
The Manly Writers' Festival acknowledges and thanks the original storytellers on the lands on which our events take place, the Gameraygal people of the Eora Nation. We acknowledge and respect their continuing connection and culture, and we pay our respects to ancestors and Elders, past and present, as well as emerging leaders.