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10 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me Before Midlife
You know that book What to Expect When You’re Expecting? Someone needs to write that for women in midlife. There are jokes, offhand comments, and magazine headlines about embracing…
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Midlife Isn’t a Crisis. It’s a Controlled Burn
There is a moment that happens in midlife that nobody warns you about. It’s not the gray hair or the changing body or the number of candles on…
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11 Evidence-Based Wellness Tools for Midlife Women — An Honest, No-Hype Guide
It is 11 p.m. You are standing in your kitchen, phone in hand, watching another midlife influencer swear her latest gadget changed her life. Maybe, you think, this…
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Perimenopause Stole My Sleep. Here’s How I’m Getting It Back.
For over a year now, I’ve been waking up between 1a.m. and 3a.m. pretty much every night. Lying there, wide awake, unable to go back to sleep. Like…
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Dressing for Who I’m Becoming: A Midlife Style Shift
A midlife style awakening, one striped pant at a time. The Closet That Was Hiding Me For years, my closet was a a walking apology. An all black…
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What Nobody Tells You About Perimenopause (Including When It Starts)
The transition starts earlier than your doctor likely mentioned, looks different than the brochures suggest, and you are not imagining it. I was in my early-forties when my…