overcoming your struggles and finding yourself
I didn’t miss a Wednesday morning for twelve years. Then I went back to school, and Wednesdays belonged to a lecture hall instead of a living room full of coffee and diaper bags. Semester after semester, I stayed loosely in touch but stopped showing up. Then one week, my Wednesday opened up. I did the…
You know that draft you’ve rewritten four times and still haven’t sent. Or the yes you gave on Tuesday when every part of you meant no. Or the compliment you waved off before it even finished landing. Every one of those is a clue pointing to the same stuck pattern. And by the end of…
After last week’s post about the four stages, my inbox turned into something like a support group. One woman wrote in from what she called “the ugly middle of the Brave Explorer stage.” Another read the piece three times because she could not decide if she was in stage one or stage three, and then…
This weekend my phone filled up with fireworks, lake houses, and matching family t-shirts. And I know that somewhere out there, another woman scrolled through all of it and thought, that used to be my life. Nobody warns you about summer when you’re starting over. Winter is easy to hide in. Everybody’s inside anyway. But…
The moment you finally decide you’re allowed to want something — you’d think that would feel amazing. It doesn’t. Not at first. If you’ve ever grabbed a permission slip — yours, someone else’s, a printable from the internet — and then done absolutely nothing with it, you are in excellent company. And you’re in exactly…
I had no idea that saying I don’t know is a sign of strength. There was a woman I used to know who always had an answer. Every question that floated across a table, she caught it before it landed. Smooth. Certain. Never a flicker of hesitation. I used to watch her and think: that…
All those Instagram morning routines vs. trying to make it to 9am If you’re trying to build a morning routine when life feels chaotic, you already know that “wake up at 5am and journal” isn’t the answer. She wakes at 5am — before the alarm, naturally. She journals, meditates, hydrates, and has consumed a smoothie…
Estimated read time: 5 minutes | Category: Career & Reinvention | Tag: starting over at 50 The Day Everything Changed The day Morgan got laid off, she didn’t go home and update her resume. She went home and sat in her car in the driveway for twenty minutes because she couldn’t figure out what else…
Rediscovering Yourself in the Middle of Everything She’s standing at the kitchen counter at 6:47 in the morning, already running through a list before her coffee is done. Pick up the prescription before work. Call back the discharge coordinator. Reply to the email from her boss that she didn’t get to yesterday. Text her daughter….
A reader sent us this question recently, and it stopped me in my tracks. Not because it was surprising — but because it felt like the question so many of us have been silently carrying ever since the world turned sideways. “I lost my social circle during Covid,” she wrote. “I also lost my job….
