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…
She is standing in front of her closet. Not because she has nothing to wear. The closet is full. It has been full for years, a whole life’s worth of choices hanging there in whatever system she set up in a different decade. She is standing there because nothing in it feels quite like her….
There was a moment not long ago when I sat down to work on this and just stopped, wondering if I should keep going. Closed the laptop. Sat there. And genuinely asked myself: does anyone even care about this? And maybe more honestly — do I have anything left to give it? If you have…
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…
Still waiting for someone to say it’s okay to want more than this? There’s something you want. You’ve wanted it for a while, and you keep not doing it — not because you can’t, but because somewhere in the back of your mind, you’re still waiting for the permission slip nobody gave you – for…
I didn’t set out to collect your stories. I set out to show up, share a few things that had helped me, and see who else was wandering around in the messy middle of a big life change. What I didn’t expect was you. The emails came first. Then the comments. Then the DMs. And…
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…
Life has this way of pulling the rug out from under us just when we think we’ve got it all figured out. Maybe it’s divorce papers on the kitchen table, an empty nest that echoes with memories, or a career shift that leaves you wondering who you are without that familiar title. Life transitions can…
