Your beliefs create everything you have in life. If you believe you’re going to fail at something, well, you’re probably going to fail because your brain willed it to happen. And the opposite is true too! So if you want to achieve success in life, READ MORE…

There is something about summer that can bring all your insecurities to the surface: the lighter clothes, the bare arms, the warmer weather, the invitations to be out, be seen, be photographed, be present in a way that feels harder to hide from. Summer has READ MORE…

I was born and brought up in Norway, so the Nordic way of life has never felt like a lifestyle trend to me. It was simply life. It was the quiet of the mornings, the clean, uncluttered homes and the shoes left by the front READ MORE…

For years, I thought a good life was one I managed well: a productive morning, a tidy home, work completed on time, messages answered, meals planned, responsibilities handled, other people reassured and problems anticipated before they had the chance to become inconvenient. Rest was allowed, READ MORE…

I think one of the most deeply ingrained beliefs many women carry is that rest has to be justified. If you are exhausted enough, ill enough, burnt out enough, grieving enough, or productive enough beforehand, then perhaps you are allowed to stop for a moment. READ MORE…

There is something about the halfway point of the year that asks you to stop. Not to assess, judge, or compare where you are against where January’s version of you thought you’d be by now. But to simply sit down with yourself, honestly, gently, and READ MORE…

I want to start with a question Maria Girguis asked herself years into her career in clinical pharmacy. What if the problem isn’t that we don’t have enough medicine? What if the problem is that we’ve been treating the body in pieces, and wondering why READ MORE…

It started with a sentence. Earlier this year, for International Women’s Day, I asked women to finish this: “This is Midlife by Design, Not by Default, because…” Sixteen women responded. Different countries. Different stories. Different seasons of midlife. But underneath all of it, the same READ MORE…

June is the height of light, long days, short nights, nature bursting with fullness. The solstice marks the peak of the sun’s energy, a turning point where the year tips from growth toward harvest. For women in midlife, June can feel like both expansion and READ MORE…