Category: Lifestyle Blog
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Finding Freedom in Frugal Living
For many Canadians, money is a near constant stress. Household debt keeps climbing faster than income, and by mid-2025, Canadians owed $1.74 in credit market debt for every dollar of disposable income. In that world, “cutting back” rarely feels like freedom and more like punishment. But what if frugal living wasn’t about lack or deprivation?…
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What a Nurse Keeps in Their Medicine Cabinet (and What to Toss Today)
By Jason Dunne, Chief Academic Officer at Arizona College of Nursing Most of us have a medicine cabinet filled with things we haven’t looked at in years. There’s the half-used bottle of cough syrup, a few mystery pills rolling around in the back, and medications that may have expired long ago. The truth is, many…
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What Lifespan Gets Right About the Difference Between Living Longer and Living Better
Most of us have had the experience of meeting someone in their 80s who seems decades younger than their age. They travel, stay active, have a packed social calendar, and somehow possess more energy than people half their age. We’ve also seen the opposite. Someone may live a long life, but spend years dealing with…
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Life Planning in Your 50s: A Plan for the Next 15 Active Years
Every guide to life planning in your 50s is a retirement calculator in disguise. Here is a plan for the decade you are actually standing in: five active
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Personal Growth in Your 40s: Why It’s the Renovation Decade
Personal growth in your 40s keeps breaking because you run your 20s playbook. The 40s are the renovation decade: stop adding, start subtracting, and
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The Prime Day Deals We’re Actually Adding to Cart
Some links in this story may earn us a commission, always at no extra cost to you. We only ever recommend what we genuinely love. Prime Day is the rare moment when the products we’ve quietly been eyeing all season finally drop in price, and this year the lineup is genuinely good. We’re talking the…
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How to Know When to Let Go of a Relationship, According to a Therapist
Some relationships end with a clear break. Most just quietly run out of road. You keep waiting for clarity to hit like a lightning bolt, and instead you just feel tired, confused, and a little guilty for even questioning it. We’ve all been there, or maybe you’re living it right now, reading this on your…
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In The Kitchen With Francesco Mattana: On Sardinian Cooking, Blue Zone Living, and Eat Like a Sardinian
With more than 1.6 million followers across social media, Francesco Mattana has become one of the most recognizable voices in Italian cooking today. The Sardinian-born chef built a loyal global following by sharing approachable recipes rooted in authentic Italian traditions, helping home cooks feel more confident in the kitchen one pasta dish at a time.…
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Midlife Transition: The Re-Architecture Window, Not a Crisis
A midlife transition is not a crisis to survive. It is a re-architecture window: rework the life you mostly want to keep, one domain at a time, built for
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Consistent Habits in Midlife: The System That Sticks
Consistent habits in midlife break because they run on willpower in a decade that runs on hard days. Here is the system that survives a bad week: shrink