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February 22, 2024

When It Comes to Coming Out, It’s Never Too Late

Suzette Mullen knows what it’s like to start over. In her 50s, she came to realize she was a lesbian, a truth she’d turned away from for years

February 15, 2024

The Easy Habit Everyone Should Try

A few years ago, I started a new habit that became a family tradition. Throughout the year, I kept an ongoing list of my children’s accomplishments to read to them on January 1st of the following year.

February 8, 2024

The Internet’s Gynecologist Will See You Now

During peak pandemic times, Jen Gunter MD — otherwise known as the Internet’s gynecologist — started to notice a convergence of alarming trends.

February 1, 2024

A Youth-Culture Obsessive Explains Kids These Days

There are only a few newsletters I always open, and Casey Lewis’s After School – a daily download on what’s happening with young people these days – is one of them.

January 25, 2024

How to Embrace Big Birthdays

For many people, there’s real anxiety around “milestone” birthdays. They can be uncomfortable reminders about how our lives haven’t quite turned out as planned, or how we haven’t achieved everything we feel like we should have. and postmenopausal women when we think of the supplement. 

January 18, 2024

Why Aren’t More Women Taking This Supplement?

Creatine has been associated with male bodybuilders, athletes, and gym rats since it sprinted into the general public’s knowledge following the 1992 Summer Olympics. I think it’s safe to assume that we don’t think of perimenopausal and postmenopausal women when we think of the supplement. 

January 10, 2024

Astrologer Susan Miller on Career Longevity

Astrologer Susan Miller is on the mend. In late 2023, she suffered an eye infection that temporarily left her partially blind. “Macular degeneration. You're supposed to get it when you're 80. I got it at 35,” she says.

January 4, 2024

What You Should Know About ADHD and Age

I discovered the hard way just how much female sex hormones affect ADHD — like the I-went-to-five-different-doctors-before-anyone-told-me hard way. So let me tell you what I learned so you don't have to go through it too.

December 21, 2023

When Acne Torments You As An Adult

“Have you tried that soap I bought you?” my mother asks, expertly chopping a red onion while I roll my eyes behind her back. I’m a 34-year-old mother of three, and I’ve been battling a persistent case of adult acne for months.

December 14, 2023

What You Didn’t Know (But Should) About Heart Health

Heart disease is the number one cause of death in the United States as well as the leading killer of women ages 25 and up.

December 7, 2023

The College Convo We Should Be Having

If you’ve ever grimaced after a well-meaning friend calls you resilient, you’re not alone. ​“It’s such a complicated word. Ugh,” says author Stephanie Land over the phone.

November 30, 2023

The Beauty of Male Friendships

On a clear, warm weekday evening near the tail end of summer, I stood on a rooftop in the middle of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, feeling feelings.

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