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What if you stopped apologising for believing in yourself?For taking up space, for changing direction, for wanting more....
16/10/2026

What if you stopped apologising for believing in yourself?

For taking up space, for changing direction, for wanting more.

At Power Years Live, we’re bringing that conversation to the stage with Lisa Maffia — singer-songwriter, author, entrepreneur and DJ — for Straight Talking: An Intimate Mic Takeover: No Apologies.

From being the one woman among men in So Solid to forging a next chapter on her own terms, Lisa’s story opens up a bigger question: what does it really mean to believe in yourself, especially when life asks you to start again, rethink what’s possible or find your voice in a new way?

Because self-belief isn’t something you either have or you don’t. It shifts. It gets tested. It can take time to rebuild. And it’s never too late to trust yourself enough to begin again.

Your experience is not a reason to make yourself smaller. It’s part of what makes you powerful.

That’s what The Power Years are about: owning everything you’ve learned, backing who you are now and making room for who you’re becoming.

📍 Power Years Live | 6 November | Arding & Hobbs, London

Come for the conversations that stay with you long after the day is over.

🎟️ Book your place - https://theallbright.com/the-power-years/

You are not a before picture. You’re perimenopausal.And your body is not a project that needs fixing.Some days, you feel...
15/10/2026

You are not a before picture. You’re perimenopausal.

And your body is not a project that needs fixing.

Some days, you feel strong. Other days, you’re bloated, exhausted, your jeans don’t fit and you can’t remember the word for toast. (Yes, really.)

Rebecca Lewis knows the feeling. In her latest piece, she explores the strange expectations placed on women in midlife: we’re told to stop caring what people think, while being inundated with advice on how to optimise our bodies, preserve our youth and get everything right.

But what if confidence isn’t about loving your body every day, or pretending you no longer care how you look?

Rebecca writes about the strength she’s found in lifting weights, the reality of perimenopause and learning to focus less on how her body looks, and more on what it can do.

With QVC's Menopause Your Way offering practical support and honest conversations around menopause, this is a reminder that looking after yourself should be about what you need - not another list of things you’re getting wrong.

Because you are not a before picture. And you don’t need to become an after.

Read Rebecca Lewis’s latest piece - https://theallbright.com/stories/midlife/uncategorized/you-are-not-a-before-picture-youre-perimenopausal/?utm_source=instagram&utm_medium=social_organic&utm_campaign=article_midlife

You know the thought isn’t true. So why does it still feel so real?That’s the frustrating thing about anxiety. You can t...
14/10/2026

You know the thought isn’t true. So why does it still feel so real?

That’s the frustrating thing about anxiety. You can tell yourself I’m fine, you can reason with it, you can know, logically, that the thing you’re worrying about probably isn’t going to happen.

And still feel your stomach drop when the email comes in.

In this week’s Q&A, mindset expert and Rapid Tapping® founder Poppy Delbridge explains why anxiety isn’t simply a thinking problem and why trying to out-logic an anxious feeling often gets you nowhere.

Her advice is to talk to the body first.

It’s a simple idea, but one that might change the way you understand your own anxious patterns: you don’t have to argue with the thought. You can give your body a different signal.

Read Poppy’s practical advice, including the one-minute technique she uses to help interrupt the cycle - https://theallbright.com/stories/wellness/lifestyle/logically-i-know-my-anxious-thoughts-arent-always-true-but-that-doesnt-stop-me-feeling-them-please-help/?utm_source=instagram&utm_medium=social_organic&utm_campaign=article_wellness

And if anxiety is affecting your day-to-day life, remember: you don’t have to manage it alone. There is support available.

What if ambition is the thing you turn to when you don't feel good enough?For Daisy Buchanan, it was her first addiction...
13/10/2026

What if ambition is the thing you turn to when you don't feel good enough?

For Daisy Buchanan, it was her first addiction. Alcohol came second.

She chased success relentlessly, using work to quiet her self-doubt and drinking to cope when it all became too much. And when drinking made her feel worse, she'd throw herself back into work.

From the outside, she was doing brilliantly. Inside, she was exhausted.

It took a holiday in Copenhagen for Daisy to realise that no amount of work, w**e or achievement was going to make her feel like she was enough.

Four years sober, she's still ambitious. But she's learned to work differently, be kinder to herself and stop treating every day as a test she has to pass.

“I’m as ambitious as ever, but my quest for success feels more sustainable.”

In the latest Long View, Daisy Buchanan reflects on ambition, alcohol and the freedom that came from no longer trying to prove herself.

Read the full story - https://theallbright.com/stories/work/self/my-first-addiction-was-ambition-drink-came-second/?utm_source=instagram&utm_medium=social_organic&utm_campaign=article_work

Can you lose your style while editing one of the UK’s biggest fashion magazines?Deborah Joseph did.After seven years as ...
12/10/2026

Can you lose your style while editing one of the UK’s biggest fashion magazines?

Deborah Joseph did.

After seven years as Editor-in-Chief of GLAMOUR, surrounded by stylists, designers and fashion shoots, Deborah found herself wearing the same black and navy outfits on repeat.

It wasn’t that she’d stopped loving clothes. Her body had changed, her life had changed, three children, a demanding career and perimenopause had left very little headspace for figuring out what felt like her anymore.

And it turns out she wasn’t the only one. When Deborah started sharing her outfits on Instagram, women in their 40s and 50s started telling her they felt exactly the same: they hadn’t lost their style. They’d just lost the time and space to have one.

In her latest piece for theALLBRIGHT, Deborah asks what happens to getting dressed when so much of midlife is spent looking after everyone and everything else.

And maybe finding your style again isn’t about becoming a different woman, it’s about remembering what you actually like.

Read Deborah’s story - https://theallbright.com/stories/midlife/fashion/can-you-lose-your-style-while-editing-a-fashion-magazine/?utm_source=instagram&utm_medium=social_organic&utm_campaign=article_midlife

You’ve spent a lifetime in this body. What would it mean to really celebrate it?The changes, the contradictions, the thi...
09/10/2026

You’ve spent a lifetime in this body. What would it mean to really celebrate it?

The changes, the contradictions, the things nobody quite prepared you for and the freedom that can come with knowing yourself a little better.

At Power Years Live, we’re making space for a different conversation about the midlife body. One that explores confidence, identity, style, visibility and what it feels like to inhabit your body on your own terms.

Joining us for our Power Panel: Celebrating the Body You’ve Always Lived In are two brilliant voices:
✨ Poorna Bell, journalist and author
✨ Andi Osho, actor, author and creative coach

Together, they’ll explore what changes, what surprises us, what we’re still figuring out and how we learn to feel at home in the bodies we’ve lived in all along.

Because this isn’t about fixing yourself or chasing who you used to be. It’s about getting to know the woman you are now.

Power Years Live | 6 November | Arding & Hobbs, London

Have you got your ticket yet? Come and be part of the conversation - https://theallbright.com/the-power-years/

Menopause can change far more than your periods.Your mood, your sleep, your anxiety, youur ability to concentrate and ev...
08/10/2026

Menopause can change far more than your periods.

Your mood, your sleep, your anxiety, youur ability to concentrate and even the way your body responds to stress.

But how much do we actually understand about what’s happening beneath the surface?

For Menopause Awareness Month, we asked nutritionist and hormone health expert Hannah Alderson to answer some of the questions women are often left wondering about - from what HRT actually does, to why perimenopause can have such a profound effect on your mental health.

Save this for later, share it with someone who needs it, and let us know: what’s the one menopause question you wish someone had answered sooner?

“Botox your CV.”That’s what Stacey Duguid was told after 16 months of being unemployed, ghosted by recruiters and strugg...
07/10/2026

“Botox your CV.”

That’s what Stacey Duguid was told after 16 months of being unemployed, ghosted by recruiters and struggling to get a foot back in the door.

Then she posted a few “funny” Instagram stories about trying to find work in midlife. She expected them to disappear in 24 hours. Instead, around 10,000 women wrote back.

Women who had applied for hundreds of jobs and heard nothing, women who had been pushed into junior roles, women relying on food banks, women who had spent months wondering what was wrong with them.

In our latest piece, Stacey tells the story of how her private humiliation became public and how, almost by accident, she found herself at the centre of a much bigger conversation about ageism, recruitment and what happens to women when the world decides they’re past their prime.

With 2,000 women in her Her Encore community, she’s determined to make sure midlife women don’t have to navigate the job market alone.

Read Stacey’s story - https://theallbright.com/stories/midlife/menopause/stacey-duguid-from-harrods-director-to-the-dole-how-one-job-centre-video-started-a-movement/?utm_source=instagram&utm_medium=social_organic&utm_campaign=article_midlife

Cancer-free doesn’t always mean finished.Five years ago, Rosamund Dean finished treatment for stage 3, grade 3, triple n...
06/10/2026

Cancer-free doesn’t always mean finished.

Five years ago, Rosamund Dean finished treatment for stage 3, grade 3, triple negative breast cancer.

But the fear didn’t finish with the treatment.

For years, she lived with the knowledge that her cancer could return. She had panic attacks, sleepless nights, moments where she could barely look at her children without thinking about how they would cope without her.

Now, 300 weeks after her diagnosis, she has reached the five-year milestone.

And for the first time, she is beginning to imagine something she hadn’t allowed herself to before: “I might have a long life.”

Cancer changed Rosamund’s life. But it doesn’t have to define what comes next.

“Five years after my mastectomy, I finally feel ready to stop being a cancer patient. And start getting on with being me.”

Read Rosamund’s story in the latest Long View - https://theallbright.com/stories/wellness/self/this-breast-cancer-awareness-month-marks-5-years-since-my-own-treatment-for-stage-3-grade-3-triple-negative-breast-cancer/?utm_source=linkedIn&utm_medium=social_organic&utm_campaign=article_wellness

“I don’t want to be chic! I want to be free.”At some point, chic stopped meaning effortlessly stylish and started meanin...
05/10/2026

“I don’t want to be chic! I want to be free.”

At some point, chic stopped meaning effortlessly stylish and started meaning… beige.

Bare nails, brown mascara, ballet flats, rye bread, a capsule wardrobe and a perfectly undone bun. Suddenly everything has a chic version and somehow, we’re all supposed to want it.

But Lauren Bravo’s latest piece for theALLBRIGHT asks a bigger question: what happens when a word that once meant having a point of view becomes another set of rules to follow?

Because the internet has a funny way of turning individuality into a checklist and there’s something wonderfully liberating about admitting that you might not want to look like everyone else. Maybe you like the loud colours, the ridiculous brooch, the fun socks or the things that don’t quite go.

Maybe being a little bit cringe is actually the point.

Read Lauren Bravo’s brilliant take on why the internet ruined a good thing - https://theallbright.com/stories/life/culture/bare-fingernails-brown-mascara-rye-bread-how-everything-became-chic/?utm_source=instagram&utm_medium=social_organic&utm_campaign=article_life

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