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We're Not Getting Any Younger

We're Not Getting Any Younger

So why am I waiting to feel like an "adult"?

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What would you go back and tell your younger self?

Is there a moment in your life where by if you had made a different decision, you’d have significantly changed course - for better or worse?

Are we growing older but wiser or just aging into more stress, overwhelm and debt?

I am 40 years old.
At this age my parents had their shit together, mortgage paid off, 3 kids aged 12, 10 and 6 they were grown ups and lived as such, so why do I still feel like I’m playing pretend with my life?

But here’s the thing - instead of receiving this much needed space to grow up, life keeps life’ing and handing me more to process, fear, love and relish. Like a train, it keeps moving and it’s my job to keep up or be swept under. The pace is relentless and life affirming, we are alive and how I know is because of the degree of cortisol

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