I didn’t think my divorce being final would matter all that much, emotionally speaking. Legally, of course, it means everything.

My first hour on the island of Menorca, on a sunny, warm day that was slipping into night, was spent at a local swimming hole a short walk from the old port town of Ciutadella.

October 27th was the last time I did Botox. It may not seem that long ago, nor may the exact date feel important, but it set in motion a stopwatch inside my brain.

My mother developed symptoms of frontotemporal dementia when I was 27. She was 61.

In your interview with registered dietician Debra Benfield, you brought up the stigma of mom, which is how we code middle-aged women as “mom,” whether they have kids or not.

A few months ago, it was brought to my attention that my spending had gone a bit rogue. By “brought to my attention,” I mean I looked at my credit card statement and gasped at the total.

If you’re over the age of 40 and have never been vaccinated for HPV, it’s not too late for you to protect yourself against the most commonly contracted STD in the country.

It didn’t take long after I ended my 12-year marriage for me to get on Tinder. I’d met my ex-husband in high school; he was the third person I ever dated; and we’d been married since we were 22.

I was 21 years old when I plotted to throw out as many bags of my mom’s belongings as I could while she was out of town for work. That was the summer of 2002.

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

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.

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

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.

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. 

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. 

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.

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.

“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.

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.

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.