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Your Best Self: Self-Care, Health & Growth After 40

Midlife is a chance to put yourself back on the list. Your Best Self is where we share ideas for feeling good in body and mind: realistic self-care, workouts you can do at home, menopause guides, goal-setting tools like vision boards, and the books and podcasts that keep us inspired.

Whether you're looking to feel happier, get moving again or rediscover what lights you up, start with a topic below or one of our most-loved guides.

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Most-Loved Guides

  • Four photos of happy women over 40 with the title 17 Simple Ways to Feel Like Yourself Again
    How to Be Happy Again: 17 Simple Ways to Feel Like Yourself Again
  • 125+ hobby ideas for adults collage with painting class, photography, cooking class and sewing
    How to Find a Hobby As an Adult: 125+ Ideas to Help You Find a Hobby You Love
  • 20 Podcasts for Women over 50 that You'll Love
  • A colorful finished vision board collage on a bed of pink rose petals
    How to Make a Vision Board That Really Works (The Ultimate Guide)
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27 Powerful Ways to Romanticize Your Life

Small rituals, slow mornings and everyday joys: simple ways to fall back in love with your ordinary days.

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All Your Best Self Posts

  • 15 tips to more easily form new habits - collage of a woman drinking water, writing in a notebook, stretching and reading with coffee
    15 Tips to More Easily Form New Habits
  • How to Spend Christmas Alone: 25 ways to have a very merry Christmas, with photos of women decorating, relaxing and celebrating the holidays
    How to Spend Christmas Alone: 25 Ways to Have a Very Merry Christmas
  • Open blank journal with a gold pen, a latte and pink tulips on a marble desk, ready for picking a word of the year
    How to Pick Your Word of the Year (+ Free Printable Guide)
  • 55 simple self-care ideas collage: skincare, a bath with a book, journaling and a cup of tea
    55 Simple Self-Care Ideas for a Healthier Mind and Body
  • 27 powerful ways to romanticize your life collage with flowers, candlelit dinner, bath and eucalyptus shower
    27 Powerful Ways to Romanticize Your Life
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    Intermittent Fasting for Women Over Age 40 : Your Complete Guide to Getting Started
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    25 Things to Stop Apologizing for Right Now
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    Vessel Health Review: A New Home Wellness Tracker
  • Self-Compassion Quotes
    50 Self-Compassion Quotes and Affirmations to Remind You to Love Yourself
  • How to Find Yourself When You Feel Lost
    How to Find Yourself Again [Free Workbook]
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    25 Unforgettable Books that will Change Your Life
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    How to Make a Powerful Digital Vision Board Online [+ Free Canva Template]
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    Free Habit Tracker Printable to Help You Reach Your Goals
  • 25 essential tips for holiday self care: woman relaxing by the Christmas tree, mulled wine, a bath with a book and glowing candles
    25 Essential Tips for Holiday Self Care - Manage Holiday Stress!
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    How to Create a Powerful Personal Vision Statement for Your Life [+ Examples & Free Workbook]
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    This Self-Care Checklist will Keep You from Burning Out
  • My At-Home Fitness Obsession: Silver&Fit
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    How to Make a Powerful (and a Little Magic) Life Goals List
  • How to Successfully Reinvent Yourself After 40
  • Someone writing a Gratitude Letter
    The Gratitude Letter: A Simple Gratitude Exercise with a Big Impact
  • 15 Ted Talks for Women Over 40 You Have to See
  • What does it really take to reinvent yourself and change your life? Here’s some real talk from a woman who has reinvented her life multiple times.
    Here's What You Need to Know about How to Reinvent Yourself at 40
  • Considering Hormone Replacement Therapy? Here are The Facts You Need to Know
  • How to Learn to Treat Yourself with Self-Compassion
  • Instagram Accounts to Follow for Self-Care
    25+ Instagram Accounts to Follow for Self-Care When It All Just Seems Too Much
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    Ten Surprising Signs You Need Self-Care
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    Work Out for Free at Home with These 15 YouTube Workout Videos
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    These Three Exercises are All You Need to Get a Full Body Workout at Home
  • older woman working out
    10 Tips to Finally Get in Shape After 50
  • Vision Board Quotes
    55 Powerful Vision Board Quotes to Download and Print
  • Real Talk About Menopause
    Real Talk About Menopause
  • How to Lose Weight after Menopause: Why You Gain Weight and How You Can Lose It
  • How to Make a Soothing Self-Care Kit for Stressful Times
  • 10 Natural Remedies for Menopause Symptoms that Really Work According to Real Women
  • Your Complete Guide to the Symptoms of Menopause and Perimenopause
  • Everything You Need to Know about Your Hormones During Menopause and Perimenopause
  • Seven Signs You Are Having a Midlife Crisis and How to Survive Your Crisis
  • Analyzing Your Body Composition with the Dexa Scan Test: An Honest Review
  • 5 Surprising Reasons Why Vision Boards Fail
  • This Test Will Accurately Measure Your Metabolism
  • The Benefits of Learning Your Strengths in Midlife
  • We all think we need to focus on everyone else or else we're being selfish. But actually the least selfish thing you can do is focus on yourself.
    This is Why Focusing on Your Needs isn't Selfish

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