For many women, midlife arrives quietly. Careers have been built, families raised, and responsibilities fulfilled. From the outside, life appears settled. Yet beneath that certainty, an unease often begins to surface. A question emerges without warning: Who am I now?

This question sits at the heart of Lisa Best’s work as a Midlife Transition Specialist. With more than three decades of counseling experience, she now focuses on helping women navigate midlife change shaped by divorce, career shifts, loss, or children leaving home—moments when long-held identities begin to feel incomplete.

Best understands this crossroads personally. At age fifty, an unexpected divorce dismantled the structure she had relied on for decades. The disruption forced her to confront how deeply her sense of self had been anchored to caring for others. In one pivotal moment, while decorating a new home, her son asked what she liked. She could not answer.

That realization became the catalyst for deeper work—not only in her own healing, but in the structured support she now offers women facing similar transitions.

Through The Midlife Roadmap, her ten-week framework, Best guides women through emotional stability, relationships, purpose, community, and personal fulfillment. Her approach blends therapeutic depth with practical forward movement, emphasizing that emotional healing must come before growth.

“Difficult experiences can either close us off or open us to deeper meaning.”

Best believes midlife is often the first time women pause long enough to ask what they truly want. In helping others navigate that question, she has become the guide she once needed.