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Jacqueline Newman, a divorce lawyer in New York City, starts every meeting with a new client by seeing if she can get rid of them. “The first thing I do is ask them if they’re sure. If they even pause for a nano-second, I say go see a marriage counselor,” Newman says. “Divorce is emotionally…

By Sheri Radel Rosenberg Heavens to mergatroid. My hair sucks. The cut and color are good, but the texture is not. Is it the GLP-1? Or menopause? Whatever the cause, I am inching ever closer to the sprayed helmet I swore I’d never have. I used to look at older women with that very particular…

By Laura Norkin Perhaps you’ve also seen the posts. “Nervous system resets,” belly-fat myth busting, face-depuffing, and guides to reversing gray hair — because of something-something cortisol! For spring, beauty site Byrdie recommends a “cortisol closet”: comfy clothes in the colors of oatmeal and moss. On a recent episode of Las Culturistas, Californian comedian Blair…

By Leslie Price Can you give an overview of what hormones are? Hormones are the way we get our 30 trillion cells to talk to each other so the body is working in harmony towards a common goal. Hormones are chemical signals. They are released by a gland. You’ve heard of the thyroid gland, the…

By Chris Deacon ​​People don’t talk about the next phase. Turns out they’re not “done” after all. I thought the “bigger” issues were cliques, crushes, underage drinking, and getting into college. But now my kid is out there, living in another city, navigating things big and small every day. And I can’t stop thinking about…

By Susan Solomon Yem Last Christmas, one of my sons purchased a story-telling subscription for me so I could write my personal history to ultimately be bound into a book and shared with the rest of the family. The weekly questions that popped up in my inbox each Monday morning were intriguing: If you could…

Laura Barcella When I hit my late 40s, I started noticing something strange. Things that used to seem like no big deal were, suddenly, major sources of anxiety. I couldn’t make a routine phone call without a wave of nerves washing over me. Even putting my name in at a restaurant’s host stand made me…

By Jill E. Duffy When I first heard the term "menopause coach" on the show Bad Sisters, I didn't know if it was real or a joke. What would a menopause coach do and who would hire one?  It turns out that menopause coaches are real, and what they do runs the gamut. Like any…

By Leslie Price There is a lot of advice out there for parents of babies or young children, but as your kids get older, it all gets more complicated. Puberty has stretched out, meaning big emotions at earlier ages. The ubiquity of screens can bring new challenges, from tricky social dynamics to concerns about unsafe…

By Holland Sweet Ovarian cancer is the deadliest gynecological cancer and the fifth leading cause of cancer death in women — with around 22,000 new diagnoses in the United States a year, most of them in women over 50. Unlike cervical cancer, which has the pap smear, or breast cancer, which has mammography, ovarian cancer…

By Jill E. Duffy My friend DB bounded down the stairs carrying a huge bag of prunes. She was visiting for a few weeks and brought her own supply. "I eat five every day," she said, chewing. "For osteoporosis." Results of a randomized controlled trial, published in 2022, suggest that eating prunes could help postmenopausal…

By Brooke Berman I was 30 and had moved into the apartment of my dreams with the roommate of my dreams. Once unpacked, we decided to throw a series of dinner parties to introduce our friends to each other. We drew up a guest list and a menu, then split up who would buy what.…