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The 3 a.m. wide-awake spiral that has nothing to do with how tired you are

You fell asleep just fine. That is the part nobody seems to understand when you try to explain it. You were genuinely tired at ten o'clock, you got into bed, and you were out within twenty minutes like a person with no sleep problem at all. And then somewhere around three in the morning your […]
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Redesigning your days now that no one else's schedule runs them

It is 10:40 on a Tuesday morning and you are standing in your own kitchen holding a cup of coffee that went lukewarm a while ago, and there is nothing you have to do. Not one thing. No meeting, no drop-off, no deadline, no one waiting on the other end of anything. You spent forty […]
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Why Making Friends After 60 Feels Harder Than It Did at 16 (And How to Fix It)

Your Tuesday is watercolor class. Wednesday might be the volunteer shift, Thursday the book club that has met for four years running. You know every woman's name in that room. You know whose daughter just had the baby and who is having trouble with her knee. You talk about the weather and the grandchildren and […]
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The Connection Between Your Sleep, Your Energy, and Your Waistline That Nobody Explained to You

You wake up at 3 a.m., wide awake for no reason you can name, and you lie there doing the math on how many hours of sleep you have left before the day starts again. By the time your alarm actually goes off, you feel like you never slept at all. You drag through the […]
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The 2,000-year-old energy fix hiding in your grandmother's medicine cabinet

It happens most days around two or three in the afternoon. You are not tired the way you were tired in your thirties, chasing kids and deadlines. This is a heavier, foggier kind of tired. Your eyes want to close over a book you were actually enjoying. The coffee that used to fix this by […]
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About the Author

Carol Collins spent years reading the research nobody hands you and translating it into something you can actually use. Her Own Table exists because she got tired of watching smart, capable women get talked down to by an industry built for someone else's body and someone else's life stage. She's not a doctor and she's not a life coach. She's the friend who did the homework, and she's setting the table for you.
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What you will find here is research, translated into plain language, and my own experience navigating this life stage. Take it as a starting point for your own thinking, not a final answer. If something here touches on your health or your money, the next right step is always a conversation with someone qualified to speak to your specific situation.

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