Woman Beyond 40

Are you feeling like you’ve lost your spark lately? You’re always a bit sluggish, despite getting plenty of rest. You’re gaining weight that you...

From the outside, my business looked like a huge success. I was making the big bucks, selling out courses, writing books and travelling the...

https://youtu.be/lYKcW0MmChI Sandy Lowres, Founder of WB40 magazine (Women Beyond 40) and The Good Girl Confessional podcast is a woman who has found her groove. And...

This week I introduced Artificial Intelligence (AI) to Menopause; I wasn’t happy with the result. AI art yielded the same negative stereotype I...

It would be nigh impossible to not know that singer/songwriter Kate Bush is back in the charts, thanks to the 80s-themed Netflix mega-series ‘Stranger...

https://hercanberra.com.au/life/kate-bush-still-running-up-that-hill/

By Sandy Lowres Ahead of The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever Sandy Lowres explores the eternal power of Kate Bush–and how she keeps running up that hill. If...

Ashton Applewhite, the celebrated NY based author and the self-described “pro-aging radical” has defined ageism as something that “occurs when a dominant group uses...

i am gone here but not there but not in out out in floating, gone again i am dissociation i am pelt of shame a foreign heart i am come apart i am And then him/he...

“ Not only did I butt-in but proceeded to wave my hands about with the pageantry of a peacock train-rattling his plumage.”

 I remember seeing a shift in how others saw me as I moved from my thirties into my forties. I was noticed less, passed...

“I console myself with the knowledge that turtles can breathe out of their butts, wisdom imparted from the trivia printed on the strip of an overnight maxi-pad.” “The disorienting midnight toilet visit that follows comes with fears that I may be too late, praying my nightie is drenched from sweat.”

My Nan used to roll out the saying ‘you can’t teach an old dog new tricks’ when I would ask her to do something...

Your youngest child has left to begin their independent life, you close the door behind them & turn around to an empty home of...

How to know when it's time to change your job Are you feeling stuck in your job or career? Perhaps you’ve been striving and working...

The Byron Bay region of Australia is picturesque and has long been synonymous with alternative lifestyles, down to earth people, and more recently a...

“The statistics quoted were so overwhelming they left me with no doubt, no wriggle room to find anything redeemable.” “So be gone you grubby creatures that ‘do it’ and ‘condone it’ as the full power of the law is set to now descend upon you and protect victims of bullying, sexual harassment and sexual assault.” “As for those who ignored it, I will do some paraphrasing of my own in stating that evil thrives when good people do nothing.”

THANK YOU so much for your incredible support of the podcast but also for your support of the incredible and kick ass women who...

I was 35 when I bought my first vibrator and I wish that I had had one from a much younger age! If you...

What being an extra on the set of teen drama Dive Club reminded 2 menopausal besties! Growing up in the 1970s the messages on the...

While chatting with Rachel Mason Walker, who had just dropped her child at school, it’s almost impossible not to smile, such is her infectious...

Kylie Sahb is an award-winning photographer who has combined her love of music with her passion for photography. She is the Founder and owner...

Isn’t it time men held the space? If my 6 year old daughter can do it, dudes can too I’ve been told many times I’m...

Coming back to country Cheree Stokes is by her own admission spiritual with a belief that the universe will guide you to where you should...

Looking back now, I feel again that sense of foreboding in late December when ash from far away fires started to sprinkle down on me, my family, neighbours and friends, as I pottered in the garden.

Forging a business with passion When Western Australian Kerry Ridley suddenly found herself on the end of a work place redundancy from her admin role,...

I kept seeing videos of women rollerskating. Black women; fat women; queer women; women wearing hijabs, a woman using a mobility aid. Skating seemed to be for everyone!

Saying goodbye to 2013 was one of the happiest moments of my life. I had finally extricated myself from a long-term relationship with a...

Balmain, a suburb of Sydney, is  a long way from the country town of Ivanhoe, NSW, where Gayle Kennedy was born, and the country...

“When I explained that the abuse he suffered was not his fault and why, I did not need to tell him twice,” Leceta explains, “His eyes became bright! The healing began.”