MIDLIFE BY DESIGN: CURATING YOUR NEXT CHAPTER
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…
There comes a point in midlife when you begin to suspect that you do not actually need another thing. Not another cream promising to restore the face you had at thirty-two. Not another notebook waiting patiently for the reinvention that the previous six notebooks were READ MORE…
I think one of the quietest ways we lose ourselves is by rarely being fully where we are. Our bodies are in one place, but our minds are somewhere else entirely. In tomorrow’s to-do list. In next week’s worries. In a conversation that has not 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…
There is something about summer that makes everything harder to ignore: the longer days, the bare arms, the open windows, the sound of people outside living, the way light lingers in a room long after dinner, as if even the evening is reluctant to leave. READ MORE…
There are women who talk about freedom, and then there are women who build it, quietly, deliberately, one brave decision at a time. Sif Orellana is the latter. A writer, creative entrepreneur, and founder of Letters from Maison Violette, Sif lives between a 300-year-old French READ MORE…
We talk a lot about hormones in midlife, but far less about the gut, even though so many women feel the shift there first. The bloating that seems to appear from nowhere. The constipation. The new food sensitivities. The sluggish digestion. The sense that your READ MORE…
In this episode of Midlife by Design: Curating Your Next Chapter, I’m talking about the quiet but…
Sometimes the hardest part of outgrowing something isn’t leaving, it’s admitting you’ve already left… internally. You’re still showing up, still performing competently, still meeting expectations, still doing what you said you would do. But inside, something has quietly detached. You don’t feel inspired. You don’t READ MORE…
Self-trust is often sold to us like confidence. Like a woman striding into a room in heels with a bold lip and no fear, like a big decision made overnight, like a dramatic moment where you finally choose yourself and everything clicks into place. But READ MORE…
