Women Mastering Midlife

Women Mastering Midlife

The Messy Middle Nobody Talks About: A Conversation with Angela Burk

What happens when midlife isn’t a glow-up, but a complete unraveling and why that might actually be the point.

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Victoria Byrd
Feb 23, 2026
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When I sat down with Angela Burk, author of Real Girls Guide to Midlife, I expected a conversation about reinvention. What I got was something far more honest: a reckoning with all the ways so many of us have spent decades disappearing from our own lives, one quiet compromise at a time.

Angela wrote the book she couldn’t find anywhere else. Not a wellnes…

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