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Why midlife is the best time to start hitting the festival scene
If there are seven ages of man, there must be five ages of festival-going women. Jane Dyball, co-founder of Primadonna festival and stalwart of many other festival weekends, is here to talk you through them…
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World Exclusive: Sheryl Sandberg talks to Eleanor Mills about leaving Facebook
'I'm proud to be a Queenager' Sheryl tells Eleanor as she moves into her own new chapter in midlife.
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My mum, the hopeless alcoholic
It's hard enough when your mother dies -- but what if you have always had to look after her? That is a whole other story.
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Hooray for unlikeable heroines
We should embrace female characters who are deeply flawed and not nice
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'It's OK not to want to "go freelance" in midlife!'
Midlifer and coach Jenny Stallard on why wanting to stay in a ‘real job’ is perfectly acceptable.
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My Midlife Hero’s Journey
Taiwo Dayo-Payne explains why midlife provides the opportunity for a classic interior journey.
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Becoming a painter at 50
Jocasta Shakespeare loves that she found the artist inside in midlife, not earlier....
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Minnie Driver talks midlife power, Hollywood & Managing Expectations
The Brit and Hollywood A-lister has published a memoir as a collection of essays. Here she talks midlife with Eleanor.
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'I looked like a success but I was too numb to enjoy anything'
Helen Barnes on how she gave up traditional notions of success, concentrated on her family and discovered the joy of reinventing herself.
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Studies show HRT can reduce women's risk of Alzheimer’s – could it have saved my mum?
Kate Muir discovered that menopause doesn't just affect our bodies, it affects our minds.