Why Midlife Women Are Actually the Happiest — Despite Everything!
We’re told endlessly that youth is where the magic happens. That happiness peaks somewhere between low-rise jeans and regrettable boyfriends. But then something miraculous occurs: we reach midlife… and discover that happiness hasn’t disappeared. It’s actually arrived — finally, fully, unapologetically. Midlife women are some of the happiest, calmest, most grounded people on the planet. Not because life is perfect (it rarely is), but because we’ve stopped trying to make it pe
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Things I Stopped Doing After 50 (And My Life Immediately Improved)
There’s something wonderfully liberating about reaching midlife. Not because everything is suddenly perfect — it isn’t — but because at some point you simply grow tired of wasting energy on things that don’t matter, don’t work, or don’t deserve the emotional rent they’ve been charging you for decades. Here are the things I stopped doing after 50… and the surprising improvements that followed. 1. Saying Yes When Every Fibre of My Being Meant No Once upon a time, I agreed to th
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A Guide for a Calm Christmas: A No-Nonsense Guide for Women Who Are Tired of Doing Everything
If you’re craving a calm Christmas rather than a chaotic one, this is for you! ”Christmas used to be magical. Now it mostly feels like being cast as the unpaid production assistant in a festive West End show no one asked you to organise. By midlife, many of us have learned two things: We want Christmas to feel calm, cosy, and meaningful. The people who shout “Make it magical!” usually contribute nothing except an empty tin of Celebrations. This guide is for the woman who want
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