Welcome to Dare to Flourish

Hello, I’m Mitlé

Solicitor, strategist, and midlife woman reckoning with what it means to live with purpose, clarity, and care in a complex world.

For as long as I can remember, I’ve written to make sense of things, to gather thoughts, ask questions, hold longings, and meet the world with wonder and resistance. Dare to Flourish is the space where I bring that writing to life, not as finished answers but as open invitations.

Why Dare to Flourish?

Because flourishing in these times is an act of rebellion. Mary Oliver writes in Starlings in Winter:

This is not about perfection or “living your best life.” It’s about daring to be and not being afraid of our times. It’s about navigating midlife with courage and curiosity, honouring our grief and our joy, and choosing to keep creating, connecting, and contributing - even when our world is collapsing.

This space is for women who live at the edge:

• of systems, stories, identities, and transitions

• who are no longer content with how things are, but unsure what’s next

• who long for grounded guidance, not more hustle

• and who believe that justice and beauty, rage and tenderness, can co-exist

Whether you’re a professional, a carer, a creative, or a change-maker (or all of the above), Dare to Flourish is for you if you’re asking:

✴️ How do I live in alignment with what I care about?
✴️ How do I advocate for myself and others with clarity and integrity?
✴️ What does it mean to lead, love, and live from the middle of life, not despite it?

What I Write About

🔥 Midlife & Meaning
I write from the threshold of midlife; this strange, beautiful, disorienting place. My writing explores the grief and freedom of this era, and the quiet questions we carry: What now? What matters? Who are we becoming?

🌍 Justice, Systems & Change
As someone working in law, operations, and global women’s health, I reflect on what it means to move through institutions with integrity. I share what I’m learning about governance, care, leadership, and how we sustain our contribution over time.

💠 Law & Legal Empowerment
I write about the law as a living force; how it shapes us, protects us, fails us, and can be reclaimed. I reflect on legal clarity as a form of care, and explore how midlife women can advocate for themselves and others through systems often not built for us.

🌀 Spirituality & Intuition
While my writing now centres more on advocacy and systems, I remain grounded in sacred practice, intuitive knowing, and ritual. I explore how ancestral wisdom and contemporary activism can live side by side.

📖 Story & Matrilineal Memory
Reclaiming the stories of the women who came before us, from the intimate threads of my own ‘motherline’ to the mythic archetypes of feminine power. I write to remember, to honour, and to uncover the forgotten and silenced voices in our collective ancestry, those flowing through our blood, culture, and imagination.

And woven through all of this are my love of churchyards, stone circles, footpaths, Yew trees, flowers and baking!

💬 The Conversations I Want to Have

How do we flourish in these times, without bypassing reality?
How do we rise and contribute to a world we want to leave behind?
How do we nourish and nurture each other, so our paths become part of a collective turning?

If you read Dare to Flourish for a year, I hope you feel:

• More grounded in your values and voice

• More connected to your own rhythms and cycles

• Seen in your complexity, agency, and longing, and

• Braver in navigating midlife with both fire and grace

Who Am I?

I’m Mitlé Clare (she/her), a solicitor, strategist, and mentor working at the intersection of law, leadership, and women’s wellbeing. I currently serve as Director of Operations and In-House Solicitor for a global nonprofit advancing midlife women’s health.

My path has woven through litigation, professional standards, mission-led business, trauma-informed facilitation, and feminist leadership. I’ve run a busy organic café and store, founded Circle School to train space holders in inclusive facilitation, and led projects centred on care, clarity, and systemic change.

I write from the perspective of a midlife woman committed to justice, community, and flourishing, both personal and collective. I believe the law can be a tool of empowerment, and that midlife can be a profound threshold: not an ending, but a turning.

My matrilineal line crosses between England and Australia, shaped by migrations and returns. I honour my ancestry from the British Isles and my connection to land through story, ritual, and responsibility.

Whether I’m navigating governance or grief, contracts or kinship, I work with clarity, compassion, and care, always asking: what’s needed now, and how can we meet it with integrity?

✨ Join Me

I want Dare to Flourish to feel like sitting in Circle. A place to reflect and replenish. A space where you are welcome just as you are; no fixing, no proving, just the brave, slow work of becoming.

If that speaks to you, subscribe below and join me.

Together, let’s dare to flourish.

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I supported your work because I so appreciate your teaching of circle holding and the way you lead through your own wonderful holding of nourishing spaces. I’ve benefitted so much from being in circle with you and the wonderful humans you draw together. I learn, I see, I know, I grow. So glad to continue this journey over here on Substack and to witness you bring your much-needed book to life.

Lisa Mabberley

Mother, Nurture & Wild