5 of our most popular stories in 2024

Peri/menopause rage | The life-changing Artist's Way | Are Gen X relationships screwed? | RTO WTF? | Coming out in midlife

Happy Dead Week!

Dead Week, Twixmas, Feral Week. I don’t know about you, but I fantasize about this week between Christmas and the start of Hanukkah and New Year’s all year — and it’s finally freaking here!

I don’t have to wake up at 6 a.m. to drive my daughter to school. I don’t have to look nice if I don’t want to. I eat leftovers and whatever’s clever. I can think good thoughts about 2025 and changes I’d like to make. I still have to work a few hours at my day job, but I don’t have to attend meetings.

So, please join me. Let’s sit back, relax, grab some half-caff, and recap five of the most-read stories from The Midst.

Xo,

Amy Cuevas Schroeder

Founder of The Midst

P.S. I’d love to know — what are you doing during Dead Week?

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The great shake-up: How reading The Artist’s Way changed my life

A 30-year-old book transformed the way I see the world — and as promised, why and how I express myself

By Andrea Bauer

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Is my relationship screwed because I'm Gen X?

Our relationships, ourselves: A couples and sex therapist weighs in on the “middle child” generation’s unique relationship challenges

By MidstHer Kate Engler, a couples and sex therapist

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'My employer required me to RTO. I want to barf.'

Are return-to-office mandates sexist?

By Lauria Locsmondy

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Do I want a divorce or is it *just* menopause?

Navigating peri and menopause symptoms is not for the faint of heart — or their partners 😶

By Amy Gesenhues

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‘It was time to bring forth my desire to be in a relationship with a woman’

An excerpt of Midlife Emergence: Free Your Inner Fire

By Jen Berlingo, MA, LPC, ATR

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Stay tuned! We’ll share five more of our most-read stories of 2024 soon.