We're Having the Time of Our Midlife ; Dreamcatchers Crisis. What Crisis? Hitting Middle Age Today Gives Many Women the Impetus to Take On New Challenges. With Their Baby- Nurturing Days Behind Them and an Empowering Hormone Rush Driving Them Forward, the Four 40-Somethings Featured Here Are Grabbing Life with Both Hands...

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Forty-something mums are reputedly sedate, domesticated, and enjoy nothing more challenging than an evening at their book group, or half a day at the part-time job they found when their children started secondary school. But for some, life is way off this stereotype. Look around you, and you'll see that midlife mothers can be the most dynamic people you know - grabbing unlikely opportunities with both hands and loving every minute of the ambitious, life-expanding challenges they've taken on.

What motivates these ex-nesters as they've never been motivated before is a cocktail of age, life stage, hormonal changes and a gut feeling that, when it comes to achieving personal fulfilment, it's now or it's never. They've spent decades raising families, putting their children's and their partner's needs above their own and often treading water in their own careers - and now, as their offspring grow up and move on, they realise they've got one final, take-it-or- leaveit chance to do something big for themselves.

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We're Having the Time of Our Midlife ; Dreamcatchers Crisis. What Crisis? Hitting Middle Age Today Gives Many Women the Impetus to Take On New Challenges. With Their Baby- Nurturing Days Behind Them and an Empowering Hormone Rush Driving Them Forward, the Four 40-Somethings Featured Here Are Grabbing Life with Both Hands...

What's more, they've reached a point in their lives where they're better equipped than they've ever been to achieve their ambitions.

Because towards the menopause hormonal changes, particularly a reduction in oestrogen, act to switch off their caring, nurturing 'mummy brains'. That means the 'male' hormone testosterone is in the driving seat - putting these women, for the first time since puberty, on a similar hormonal footing to men. Instead of focusing on the needs of others, they're geared to pay atte...

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