Not a week flashes by without the release of another study into why 40-plus women are so exhausted and over it. If we’re not having a modern midlife crisis or drowning with the mental load, we’re squeezed by the sandwiched needs of those around us until we can barely breathe.
Women are floundering.
Our attention is fragmented by endless online and offline demands. When we do put our feet up to relax, it’s all we can do to actually pick a TV show instead of scrolling through endless trailers and previews until we’re too tired to watch anything.
What we’d love to do is escape. For months.
We’d love to ‘find ourselves’ — maybe in Tuscany or on some remote island … Anywhere, so long as there isn’t a person tugging on our sleeves or knocking on our office doors, or phoning or messaging or emailing us wanting more than we have to give.
It would be nice to have a dedicated time and space to remember who we are, what we love, and what we really want for the next few years, instead of constantly having to think about keeping everyone else happy.
Here’s a question for you:
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