Kristin Hodnett
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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 your age, but nothing that truly prepares you for the weird and wonderful world that is your 40s. These are the things I would tell any woman…
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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 the cake. It’s quieter than that, until suddenly it isn’t. It’s the moment you are standing in the middle of your own life and something in you…
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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 could be the thing you’ve been searching for. Then you think about all the money you’ve spent on hope this year. Before I hand you this list…
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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 clockwork, my eyes open in the dead of night and my brain switches on like someone flipped the light switch that controls it. No reason I can…
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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 uniform meant to hide my size and my age. I dressed to try to make my body look like the body I wished I had instead of…
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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 left shoulder seized up out of nowhere. No injury, not even from sleeping wrong. It just stopped working like it always had. Around this time, my cycles…