Psychologies

Welcome to your MAGNIFICENT MIDLIFE!

Lorraine Candy and Trish Halpin are on a mission: to help Generation X women make the most of magnificent midlife. If those names are familiar, it’s because Candy and Halpin are former glossy magazine editors; together, they have more than 30 years’ experience at the helm of everything we grew up reading, from Cosmopolitan and Red to Marie Claire and The Sunday Times Style.

The pair launched their latest venture – a weekly podcast called Postcards from Midlife – in January 2020, focused on changing the narrative about what it means to be a peri- and post-menopausal woman. Listeners have since downloaded more than a million episodes, while their loyal and lively community routinely discuss the topics featured in the accompanying private Facebook group.

Their goal was simple if ambitious: to harness their journalistic skills, and network of experts and celebrity friends, to offer women over 40 advice on how to deal with

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