HeyJaredMidlife Anticrisis
Inspiring women in midlife to heal, rebuild, and rise—with powerful stories, hard-earned wisdom, and practical tools for creating a life that finally feels like their own.
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The Life I Built to Escape My Childhood (opens the original)
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Sometimes we build our adult lives as a correction to our childhood, only to reach midlife and realize we overcorrected. I’ve been thinking about that a lot lately, because so many of the things we chase when we’re young aren’t random at all. We think we’re choosing a career, a house, a spouse, a lifestyle, or a certain amount of money, but underneath those choices there is often something much older driving us. We are quietly making promises to ourselves: I will never be dependent on anyone. I
The Woman You Become After 50 (opens the original)
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I turned 57 last week, and while I was putting together a YouTube video about how different my life feels now compared with 50, I started wondering why we make such a big deal out of that particular birthday.Fifty gets treated as this enormous midlife threshold. There are books about it, parties built around it, lists of things we’re supposed to know by then, endless articles about what women should stop wearing or start doing or finally have figured out. But I don’t remember waking up at 50 fee
This Might Have Been Peak Happiness (opens the original)
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I came across this picture of myself from the summer of 2019. I was 49, about to turn 50. My hair was purple. I was also wearing vintage clip-on earrings and had gotten very interested in vintage jewelry.That started almost by accident. A friend let me go through his deceased grandmother’s costume jewelry and told me I could take whatever I wanted. Before that, I knew absolutely nothing about vintage jewelry. I just picked out some things I thought were cool, then I went home and started researc
When Your Life Goals Change Before Your Finances Do (opens the original)
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For so many of us, there comes a time in midlife when the life you built and the life you want stop being the same life.Nothing necessarily collapses. You may still have a job, a home, an income, and people who think you are doing quite well. From the outside, your life may look more secure than it has ever looked. But internally, the agreement has expired. The things that once represented safety begin to feel like weight. The future you spent decades building toward no longer feels like a futur
My Operating Manual: 15 Things You Should Probably Know About Me (opens the original)
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Apparently there are some quirks in the system.I’ve spent a lot of the past few years trying to understand myself. Not in the find yourself way. At 57, I think I’ve found myself. Several times, actually. She keeps moving.Midlife Anticrisis is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<input class="email-input" name="email" tabindex="-1"
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