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We live in a culture where everyone is “fine. ”You hear it in offices on Monday mornings, muttered over instant coffee. You hear it outside the school gates, disguised in jokes about needing wine to get through bedtime. You hear it at parties where people hold a prosecco flute like a permission slip. “I’m fine. Honestly. I’m fine.” But “fine” has become a socially acceptable mask — not a meaningful measure of how we’re actually doing. It’s the polite shorthand we use to avoid

For decades, Christmas has been our most socially sanctioned excuse to overindulge. The nation’s festive run-in is set to the clink of glasses and the rustle of bottle bags. We drink to celebrate, to unwind, to get through awkward family dinners, to survive office parties, to toast the New Year. Alcohol is everywhere — so woven into the fabric of December that it feels almost rebellious to opt out. Yet more and more people are quietly doing just that. And what they’re finding

Somewhere along the way, society decided that when you hit your forties or fifties, you’re meant to fall apart. Buy the motorbike. Quit the job. Panic about your reflection. Call it a midlife crisis and hope no one notices the quiet feeling of discontent. But what if this period of life isn’t a crisis at all? What if it’s the moment you finally wake up? For so many of us, midlife is not about losing our way — it’s about finding our truth. It’s the slow, subtle recognition tha

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