I’ve been an avid journal writer since I was 15. Pages and pages of my life live in old notebooks — thoughts, fears, ideas, dreams. But for most of those years, journaling felt more like emotional venting than emotional support. It helped me express myself, but it didn’t shift how I felt. That changed when I discovered structured journaling . During perimenopause, when my emotions started intensifying and spiralling faster than I could catch them, structured journaling became

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We've all heard of the midlife crisis—that clichéd moment when someone buys a sports car or makes a dramatic life change out of fear of aging. But what's happening to women in midlife is entirely different, deeper, and, frankly, far more profound. It's called the female midlife shift, and if you're in it right now, I want you to know: you're not falling apart. You're falling awake. What Is the Female Midlife Shift? Unlike the traditional concept of a "midlife crisis"—a term c