Description

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As you've approached midlife, have you wondered: Is this . . . it? I thought it would get easier. I thought I'd have more figured out by now. Something is wrong, and I just can't put my finger on it. Maybe it's my thyroid?

Drawing from eighteen years of medical practice and personal experience, Dr. Mikala Albertson addresses the universal struggles that women face while navigating health and healing in this new stage of life, exploring topics such as

- current medical best practices for wellness and well-being
- understanding perimenopause, hormones, mood disorders, body image, and more
- balancing co-occurring stressors such as relationship troubles, caregiver expectations, and shifting motherhood roles
- finding support, purpose, and healing in this difficult part of life

You may be weary, but there are steps you can take toward health and healing while discovering along the way that there is beauty here too.

About the Author

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Mikala Albertson, MD is a board-certified family practice doctor and well-being advocate who is passionate about women's health and healing in the middle of our messy, ordinary lives. Author of Ordinary on Purpose, Mikala inspires readers on social media daily to stop striving for "perfect" lives or some unattainable cultural ideal of "beauty and wellness" and instead aim for wholehearted living through a gentle, achievable, sustainable approach. She married her high school sweetheart twenty-two years ago, and together they're raising their five children near Salt Lake City, Utah. Learn more at OrdinaryOnPurpose.com.