Life After Divorce
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Starting Over at 47 – Making Space for Joy (Even When Everything Feels Uncertain)
There’s something really powerful about the quiet decision to let joy back into your life—especially when everything else feels messy, uncertain, or downright upside down. I didn’t always know how to do that. For a long time, I was in survival mode. Grief had taken up all the oxygen in…
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Who Am I Without the Chaos?
It hit me the other morning. I was sipping my coffee—Oscar had already brought it to me in bed like he always does—and I realized… the house was quiet. Not just quiet quiet, but peaceful. No one arguing downstairs. No one stomping around. No doors slamming or text messages full…
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Reliability Is the New Sexy
Let’s just go ahead and say it loud for the people in the back: reliability is the new sexy. I know, I know—there was a time when I would’ve rolled my eyes at that kind of talk. Back in the day, I chased butterflies, confusion, and chaos disguised as passion.…
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Starting Over at 47 – All the Things They Don’t Tell You About Starting Over in Midlife
There’s a lot of talk these days about fresh starts—new chapters, reinvention, living your truth. But starting over in midlife? That’s a whole different kind of journey. It’s not glamorous. It’s not a perfectly filtered before-and-after. It’s raw, quiet, and often happens in moments no one else sees. No one…
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Starting Over at 47 – Letting Go of the Timeline: There’s No Deadline for Reinvention
If you had asked me five years ago where I’d be today, I wouldn’t have guessed this. Divorced (again), living upstairs in a house I used to share with someone I thought I’d grow old with, rebuilding my life from the ground up… and yet, somehow, I’m more myself now…
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Starting Over at 47 — Releasing Guilt, Shame, and the ‘Should Haves’
Starting over sounds brave on paper. But what they don’t tell you is how often it comes tangled up in guilt, shame, and a never-ending loop of “I should have known better.” I’ve thought it more times than I can count. I should have left sooner. I should have fought…
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Starting Over at 47 (Almost 48) — And Honestly? It Feels Empowering
If someone had told me I’d be starting over at 47 — soon to be 48 — I would’ve assumed they meant something like a new hairstyle or trying yoga again. Not a full-blown life reset. Yet here I am, in 2025, flipping the script on what this age is…
