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There is a version of you that you used to be, and at some point in your adult life, you realise quietly that she is not here anymore. It's not dramatic. You didn't have a breakdown. You didn't make a big life change. You just started to notice, in small moments, that you don't recognise yourself in the way you used to. This happens in your 30s. It happens again in your 40s, often more loudly. It happens in your 50s, when so much of life is rearranging itself at once. It happ

There is a moment that arrives for many women in this community, sometimes in your 30s, sometimes in your 40s, sometimes in your 50s or 60s, when you realise quietly: I don't really have hobbies anymore. You have a career, or a family, or both. You have responsibilities. You have a community you try to maintain, friendships you try to keep alive, a to-do list that never quite finishes. But a hobby? Something you do purely because you enjoy it, with no outcome, no audience, no

There is a sentence I keep hearing from the women in this community, and it always sounds a bit like a confession: I didn't realise how hard it would be to make friends as an adult. I hear it from women in their 30s. I hear it from women in their 40s. I hear it from women in their 50s and 60s, who say it almost more quietly, as if they should have it figured out by now. They shouldn't. And they don't have to. Because here is what I have learned after loads of conversations wi

April is Stress Awareness Month, and I've been thinking about this a lot lately, because I don't think most of us are actually aware of how stressed we are. Not really. I think a lot of women, especially in their 30s and beyond, are walking around stressed every day, but we don't call it stress. We call it being busy. We call it being tired. We call it 'just a lot going on right now.' But if we stop for a second and really look at our lives, it makes sense that we are stresse