Dianna Lee Graves

When I imagine Ageing With Intention, I see a particular woman.

She is smart, capable, and has done a lot of inner work. From the outside, her life looks “fine”, sometimes even good. But inside, there is a quiet question she rarely says out loud: “Is this really it? Is this as good as it gets?”

She is not as fulfilled as she wants to be and does not quite know how to change that. She has tried self-help books, workshops, yoga, podcasts. Each thing helps for a while, but the deeper patterns stay the same. She keeps looking outside herself for the answer and quietly wonders if she is the problem.

After more than 25 years of working with women through counselling, coaching, and trauma-informed support, I do not see a broken woman. I see lifelong patterns, old family and cultural scripts, and a woman who has been surviving the best way she knew how.

Ageing With Intention exists to meet her at the moment something small but important shifts.
The moment she thinks:

“Maybe there is nothing wrong with me.
Maybe I do not have to follow my old ways.
Maybe I can write a new script for my life.”

Midlife is not a decline. It is a powerful turning point. This is the time to ask:

Who am I now, underneath all my roles.
What truly matters to me in the years ahead.
How do I want to live so I feel as little regret as possible.

Ageing With Intention offers:

A nurturing, trauma-informed space to understand your patterns without shame.
Practical tools, using a bio psycho social lens, to gently change what no longer fits.
A community of women over 50 where you can be real, be witnessed, and know you are not alone.

My role is to walk beside you, not fix you. I bring grounded psychology and practical strategies. You bring your wisdom, your lived experience, and your inner knowing. Together, we fan the spark that is already inside you.

My deepest hope is that, after being part of this work, you will be able to say:

“I have come home to myself in a way I never knew I could.”

That is the heart of Ageing With Intention.