Identity & Reinvention
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Not Everyone Can Afford My Energy
Like everyone else it seems, I tuned into the New Heights podcast with Taylor Swift to see what she had to say. I didn’t expect a simple sentence she uttered to change the way I live my life, but it did. What she said hit home more than any of her lyrics have for me. …
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Why I Stopped Fighting My Body in Midlife (And What Changed When I Did)
There is a kind of education that only comes from your body demanding your full attention. It’s not one you go looking for, but the kind that finds you. Mine found me at 35 years old, on a CT scan ordered for something else entirely. An abdominal scan, looking for something unremarkable, happened to catch…
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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…