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Her Own Authority

Essays on midlife, self-leadership, and the quiet revolution of coming back to yourself.

Newsletter · By Elaine Blais · English · Official site

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  1. Issue · Aug 25, 2026

    The Ringleader (opens the original)

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  2. Issue · Aug 18, 2026

    The Power of Good Enough (opens the original)

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  3. Issue · Aug 11, 2026

    Permission to Need (opens the original)

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  4. Issue · Aug 4, 2026

    A Love Letter to the Woman at the Threshold (opens the original)

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    Dear Forty Something Woman,I think about you often.You’re living your life, and then it creeps in. Not all at once, but slowly — the way you drift off to sleep and when you wake you don’t remember it happening. As you move into the threshold of midlife, you don’t really see it coming. You wake up one morning feeling subtle shifts in your body, in your heart, in your life.And the body? She goes first. Before you have language for any of it, before you can name what’s changing, your body is alread

  5. Issue · Jul 28, 2026

    A Midlife Longing (opens the original)

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