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How do you manage stress? View all responses For a long time, my response to stress was to become more organised. Make a list. Find a solution. Anticipate the problem behind the problem. If I could get enough things under control, surely I would feel better. As an attorney, that instinct has served me well.…
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I turn 41 on Friday. As the day approaches, I have been thinking about how I expected 40 to feel. I imagined a sense of arrival—not a perfect life, but a quiet confidence that I had reached the age when the important pieces would finally make sense. I thought my career would feel secure, my…
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My birthday is approaching, which means it is almost time for the annual examination I conduct without being asked: the review of my life. I look at what changed, what grew, what ended, what I avoided and whether the life I have been building actually feels the way I imagined it would. This year, the…
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Maybe I don’t want Carrie Bradshaw’s life. Maybe I just want her permission to believe that mine is worth writing about.
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I needed Washington to feel like evidence—evidence that leaving the corporate ladder had not left me walking towards nothing.
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My life may not be what I imagined, but this moment is not the final verdict. On vulnerability, loneliness, dog-mum guilt—and remembering how much life remains.
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If I could relive one year of my life, I think I would choose the year I turned 40. Not because it was the easiest year. It wasn’t. It was a year of transition, uncertainty and uncomfortable questions. A year when some of the things I had built my identity around began to shift. I…
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What happens when you’re doing the work, but the results have not arrived? A reflection on reinvention, self-belief and knowing when to persist—or pivot.
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I’m building a life with more freedom, purpose and room to breathe. Now comes the less glamorous part: making it financially sustainable.
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If you could erase one event from history, what would it be? It feels like there should be an obvious answer. A war.A genocide.An act of terrorism.A moment when humanity failed itself so spectacularly that you wonder how the world might look if it simply had not happened. And of course, there are events I…