Midlife isn’t a crisis. It’s a wake-up call.

The Midlife Lie We’ve All Inhaled

For decades, we’ve been sold a version of midlife that sounds like this:

"Hold it all together. Smile. Keep going. Everyone feels like this."

The unspoken part?

"And don’t you dare fall apart."

But here’s the truth, whispered through 155 podcast conversations I’ve hosted, shouted in the moments I fell apart, and gently spoken in the messages women send me every single week:

You are allowed to fall apart.