Lori Massicot

When I was forty-five, I chose the road less traveled and ventured out on my own without alcohol.

You see, I relied on alcohol for thirty-years, and my dependency made it impossible to know who I was as a woman in the middle of life. I was...

Women in the middle of life are faced with many challenges; financial issues, body acceptance, ill parents, job loss, divorce, empty nest, perimenopause, and society's view on aging (aka stereotypes.)

Society challenges our mindset by...

If you do a Google search using the word midlife, what do you think pops up first? Crisis! Yup, midlife crisis is a highly searchable term and one that, I believe, should not exist.

Your life in the middle is not a crisis - you may not...

If you are a woman who has had a hard time in the past keeping promises to yourself, welcome; I too am a promise breaker.  Committing to myself was a unicorn for many years until I committed to stop drinking at forty-five. 

The...

I quit drinking at forty-five; my son was twelve. One of the biggest regrets I hold onto today is the fact that I drank around him for so long. Every holiday, every birthday, every social situation revolved around drinking way too much.

My...

During three decades of drinking my buzz became less fun.  I began to question if drinking was worth three-day hangovers.  That first stage of getting drunk was my favorite, but after half of a glass of wine, I lost the buzz and went...

When I quit drinking at forty-five, I had questioned my alcohol addiction for two years.  I was going through perimenopause and forcing myself to keep drinking because that is what I did since I was fifteen.  My body was telling me I had...