By Kristyna Moore Healing What the ’80s and ’90s Forgot To Teach Us
As children of the '80s, we grew up in a culture of suppressing feelings and keeping up appearances. We didn’t…
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By Angela Williams Glenn Midlife Is the Heartbreak You Never Saw Coming
I stood in the airport. Outside the window was the plane that would take me home—a place and a scene…
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By Keri Forsythe-Stephens Catch-42: An Ode to Midlife
The night started in what can only be described as a mother’s paradise. The kids were downstairs—maybe being watched by…
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By Mary McConville Midlife Is Remaking Me as a Woman and a Mother
It started like any ordinary weeknight dinner. Except this night, my teenage son sat at the table, head in his…
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By Amy Keyes When Did Middle Aging Get So Hard and How Did My Parents Make It Look So Easy?
When I was younger, I had no concept of age. My parents and their friends could have been 50, and…
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We Need To Start Talking about Perimenopause and Menopause
This one is for all the ladies out there. The topic that is still so veiled, so mysteriously and globally absent,…
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By Bethany Sarazen This Is Perimenopause
For the past few months, I’ve felt like the woman who bled for 12 years, healed by touching the hem…
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By Jennifer Vail My Body Is Changing Again But This Time I’m Embracing It
I remember shopping for my first bra. I was just so excited. I’d walked by this section of the store…
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By Linda Orleans Dear Menopause, I Guess It’s Time We Got Acquainted
Dear Menopause, I’m 51 years old and for the past few years, I’ve been dreading, resisting, and fighting you. Let’s…
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By Beth Tate But I’m Only 37
As I sat on the cold exam table in the proverbial paper gown, I bit my lip and held in…
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By Her View From Home Welcome to Periods in Your 30s and 40s
Do you remember that day in the fifth grade when the boys and girls were separated for the "Sexuality and…
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By Alethea Mshar Hot Flashes are Messing With My Coffee and it Ain’t Pretty
I startle awake, shivering. Again. Damp with my own sweat. I look at the clock, 3:22 am. Sigh. In night…
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