Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis

by Ada Calhoun

One of the goals she encourages women to pursue is what’s known as “radical acceptance”—finding a way to take life as it is, not as you thought it would be. “It’s one of the hardest things,” Chafin says, “to radically accept what’s in front of you.”

Acceptance

“Don’t forget how to have fun!” an older woman once told me when I was in high school and busy with school and several jobs. “If you forget how to have fun, it becomes really hard to remember.”

Fun

She described a recent morning when she felt unable to get out of bed because the second she did, she’d be behind on her to-do list. She lay there, frozen.

Frozen