Identity & Reinvention
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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…