What happens to a marriage when one of you slows down first, by @1womansview Nobody warns you about the bit where you don't reach the second chapter together.
#WomenOver50#Midlife#Marriage https://t.co/5MVF8luCsy
Reading the map myself, by Why is it that, having lived through my fifties and now early sixties, I find myself questioning my decisions and financial choices? Check out the free giveaway @1womansview https://t.co/KvgBTVT9ye
Saturday Afternoon Reflections @1womansview Stop working. Move somewhere warm. Wait. That was the old retirement. The generation hitting their 60s now has different plans on the new retirement & why it looks nothing like the old https://t.co/SCNXG1aaVU
What I am now choosing to carry, by @1womansview https://t.co/wsKoG07DIx My rucksack used to weigh more than 12 kilos. The rucksack is an inventory of what is in our heads - worries, standards, unfinished business that you have been carrying faithfully for years.
The strange loneliness of a well-built life. Nobody warns you about the gap between the life you achieved and the one you imagined. Saturday Reflection — for those who got it mostly right. 🔗 https://t.co/DcnCpgqWgT
Four decades of work to earn an empty Wednesday morning.
Then I sat at the kitchen table feeling guilty about it.
The permission slip you've been waiting for isn't coming. Saturday's reflection ↓
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At 55 you stop having time for friendships that leave you emptier than before. Saturday reflection on the art of the friendship audit and why it's one of the most loving things you'll ever do. 🔗 https://t.co/7ah4fue8ds
At 62, I was the oldest on the mountain.
A 26-year-old told me she hoped to be as fit as I am at that age.
Three hours later, my body felt depleted of energy.
Ageing isn't decline. It's a negotiation between what we want and what we can reasonably sustain. https://t.co/GjNn5v8Z8m
There's a chair in my house that used to be somewhere I sat while on the go. Now I sit in it differently.
That shift, small, undramatic, is what I write about on Substack.
For women in their 50s and 60s who are asking: Who am I now? https://t.co/yBdzmEAz8M
The insight doesn't come mid-task.
It comes in the bath. On a walk. Staring at the garden.
That's not an accident. That's your mind doing its best work.
New essay: why the second chapter needs silence — and how to protect it. https://t.co/o4q4MoNFEi
You don’t look the same.
You don’t feel the same.
That’s not loss.
That’s change. 👉 Read morehttps://onewomansview.substack.com/p/the-woman-who-sits-here-now?r=3vyjv
Saturday Afternoon Reflections 11.04.26 by @1womansview Boredom was never the enemy. It made us creative. The discomfort that drove us toward our own thinking. We've outsourced it. New essay for women who are done giving away their best thoughts. 👇 [LINK]https://t.co/xAMDSCs6FJ
We've filled every gap in the day with input. Podcasts. Scrolling and we've switched off the thing that actually makes us creative.
My new essay for women in their 50s & 60s who are ready to reclaim the wander. #creative#fiftiesandsixties https://t.co/kFv1nslxK9👇