Midlife Transformation
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Starting Over at 47: Digital Decluttering — Why I’m Unsubscribing, Unfollowing, and Untangling My Brain
You know what I realized the other day? My phone has become a junk drawer for my brain. Seriously. I opened my email and had 6,413 unread messages. Most of them were from places I haven’t shopped at for years. I opened Instagram and saw a post from someone I…
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Starting Over at 47 – When Loved Ones Have Secret Lives
One of the hardest things I’ve ever had to come to terms with is realizing that someone I love, someone who is right there, breathing the same air, sharing the same town, the same world, has a whole secret life that I was never going to be a part of.…
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Starting Over at 47 – Life Without a Steering Wheel (And Why I’m Not Mad About It)
So… I sold my car two days ago. Just like that, keys handed over, title signed, and poof, one more piece of my old life officially in the rearview. (No pun intended. Okay, maybe a little.) I thought it might feel like a big deal. A loss. A “wow, this…
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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…
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The Weird Grief of Watching Your Childhood Neighborhood Change
We drove through my old neighborhood recently , and let me tell you, I was not emotionally prepared. There I was, sipping my iced coffee like it was just another Tuesday, when suddenly we turned down the street I grew up on and felt like I’d accidentally went onto a…
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The Art of Letting Go (When You Were Never Taught How)
Nobody teaches you how to let go. Not really. We learn how to hold on—tight. To grudges. To people. To memories. To jeans that haven’t fit since the Obama administration. Somewhere along the line, especially if you grew up in a family that survived more than it thrived, the message…
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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…
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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…
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Starting Over at 47 – Making Peace With My Body
Let’s talk about something real for a minute—our bodies. Or more specifically, my body. It’s been through a lot with me. Three marriages, two kids, surgeries, heartbreak, grief, love, stress, joy, moves, dancing, growing babies, growing gardens—you name it. And for most of that time, I talked to it like…
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Starting Over at 47 – Redefining What Home Means to Me
So here I am—47 years old, going through a divorce, and moving back into the upstairs part of my own house. It’s funny, isn’t it? You think you know what “home” is supposed to feel like… until it doesn’t anymore. And then one day, you wake up, and you’re no…
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Starting Over at 47: Learning to Trust Myself Again
Trust isn’t something that magically returns overnight. It’s something you slowly rebuild, moment by moment, especially after years of second-guessing yourself or feeling like your decisions were never fully your own. That’s the season I’m in—relearning how to trust me. Starting over at 47 has meant unpacking a lot of…
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Starting Over at 47 – When They Can’t Handle Your Healing
Not everyone will cheer for you when you start to rise. That’s been one of the hardest and most heartbreaking lessons in this chapter of my life. As I’ve worked to rebuild, realign, and rediscover myself—some of the people I thought would be in my corner have either fallen silent…
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Starting Over at 47, Reclaiming My Space, Room by Room
There’s something deeply emotional, even spiritual, about reclaiming the space you live in after someone else has left it behind. For me, it wasn’t just about moving upstairs. It was about moving forward. After former occupants moved out (I’ve had 7 people living under my roof at one time!), what…
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