Midlife Blog
Sometimes, one insight, one story, or one moment of clarity is all it takes to shift everything.
I write here about us — women in midlife.
About what we’re living through: our worries, our successes, our doubts, our reinventions, our changing bodies, our ambitions, our relationships, and the parts of ourselves asking for more room.
About Self-Permission, self-trust, and what becomes possible when we stop living only by what is expected of us.
Are Midlife Women Being Understood or Targeted?
At 52, with my son newly in college, I found myself surrounded by language telling me what this stage of life was supposed to mean: empty nest, menopause, reinvention, second act, new you.
But what if I did not feel empty? What if I had not yet decided what any of it meant?
This essay asks who gets to define midlife—and whether women are finally being understood, or simply better marketed to.