The Midlife by Design Directory is a growing collection of Substack publications exploring the many different dimensions of midlife. It isn't intended to be exhaustive or an endorsement of every perspective shared. It's simply a place to discover more voices, stories, and conversations.
My Menossance: Where the life you built no longer fits, and something new begins. I write in real time about starting over, heartbreak, healing, and becoming. Because menopause isn’t the end. It’s the plot twist.
The Midlife Nomad: Reflection tools and essays for rebuilding identity in midlife - written by a PA-C and therapist, and newly minted digital nomad
The Menopause Professor: Forget your mother’s menopause advice. This is your weekly intelligence briefing on menopause science: the research-backed tools you need to eliminate brain fog, reclaim your energy, and feel like yourself again.
The Midst: A community of women in the midst of life pivots, building businesses, career and relationship upgrades, perimenopause, etc.
40 and Giving Zero F’s: Honest, funny essays about midlife, ambition, pleasure, and not putting your life on hold.
The Quiet Transition: Menopause, beyond the symptoms. Helping women feel understood and helping men support them better through evidence-based writing on its impact on relationships, communication, and work. New writing twice weekly from a certified menopause coach.
We Are Getting Old? Maybe. But that’s no excuse to stop living fully. Honest thoughts, personal stories, and practical ideas to help you live with intention. If we are—let’s make it count.
What Effort Reveals: Essays on effort, identity, fear, ageing, and the self beneath performance. Writing about what shifts when familiar roles no longer fit, and how curiosity, courage, and attention can keep a life open to change.
Letters from Maison Violette: Stories + tools + a village for creative, multi-passionate souls building a freer, values-led life – and a business to support it. Danish author in southern France, using life as a laboratory for writing, photography, psychology, mythology & spirituality.
40s Are The Better 20s: A newsletter to empower women over 40 to take control of their health and thrive despite the roller coaster journey that is our 40s. I feel you, girl!
Midlife Musings: Reflections and inspiration on bringing beauty and balance into the midlife journey.
Midlife Unfiltered: The Season Of Me is choosing yourself in midlife and beyond. Exploring often unspoken & taboo topics. Busting outdated stereotypes. Encouraging YOU to age with power!
Hotflash Inc: Powered by GenX journalism, weighing scientific evidence, expert opinion, and human experience; 250+ interviews, 600+ newsletters, and six years of research. This is your unbiased, moderate middle ground to a sovereign menopause + midlife.
Daphne Ogle, New Era Midwife: Essays on power-with, self-trust, and the return to yourself — for midlife women done inheriting who they’re supposed to be.
Worthy And Wild: For women (or anyone) rewriting their story — through presence, purpose, and power. A space for reflection, growth, and grounded strength. Where wellness, purpose, and personal leadership intersect.
Midstack: A community for midlife women who want to write, connect, and grow on Substack, from the editors of Midstory Magazine.
Dr Vandana Arcot: Doctor, Philanthropist, CEO @kom.selj, Creative @vund.newyork, Mom
Flourish & Flow: Celebrating the unbecoming, transformation, and joy of midlife...with a dash of GenX energy.
Next 30, Your Terms: For the midlife woman who ran the whole household and was never shown the money. The next 30 years start here.
The art of new beginnings: For the person whose life looks right on paper but no longer feels like theirs. Essays on identity, transition, and the courage to begin again.
The Midlife Reset: Ex-corporate executive, carving my own path after a 2nd layoff. I write about living through this change while building my brand. Cheers to the middle.
Feminine Energy for Midlife Women: For midlife women who want to reconnect to their feminine essence and feel like a woman again — radiant, sensual, soft, powerful, and having a life full of joy and pleasure. For women over 40 who want to be featured in my co-authored article series.
Alchemy & Ash: A space for women unraveling and recreating their lives during the perimenopause years. Pivots, purpose, identity, patterns, and turning our experiences into meaningful work … those are just some of the things we explore together here.
Nomads 50+ Midlife Recalibrated, Travel Optional: Redefining freedom, reinvention, and meaning after 50. Inspiration Tuesdays, interviews on Thursdays, city guides on Fridays, and location-independent business ideas on Sundays. Travel optional.