During Covid, in a tango class on Zoom, I was asked for one backward turn. I did two. The cat was under my foot, and I broke my arm. Six weeks in a sling. And that is when my turns started getting better. This episode is for the woman in the middle of a turn

This month, four things ended in my life at the same time. I turned 70. I worked my last full-time day as a clinical pharmacist after 40 years. My aunt moved into assisted living. And the season turned. Not one of them was a failure. But part of me was keeping score like each one

Mornings got harder. Afternoons got heavier. Bedtime started feeling like a lifetime away, even on nights with nowhere to be. Nothing about my schedule had changed, so I went looking for the reason, the way 40 years in clinical pharmacy trained me to. There wasn’t one. There was a season, and it turns out seasons

I tell people my real age to their face, on purpose. Almost every time, the first thing they say is, “No, you’re not.” That reaction is not about me. It’s about what a number does to you the moment nobody is standing in front of you to check it against. This episode is for the

Two people caught it before Diana did. A massage therapist, mid-treatment for a frozen shoulder, had her look in a mirror: one shoulder was sitting an inch higher than the other. Weeks later, a ballet teacher who had never met the massage therapist stopped her mid-exercise and did the exact same thing. That’s when it

Two o’clock. You reach for something sweet, something with caffeine, anything to get through the rest of the day, and you call it a bad habit. It’s not a habit. It’s a hormone with no plan. In Part Five of Still Moving, Diana breaks down what’s actually driving the afternoon crash: a blood sugar swing

I forgot how to spell “with” the night before delivering testimony to a regulatory committee. Four letters. A word I’d written ten thousand times. That wasn’t a stumble, it was a total blank, and it’s more common in your 50s than anyone tells you. This episode is for any woman in midlife who’s walked into

Have you ever caught your reflection in a store window, straightened up for two seconds, and watched your body slump right back down? In Episode 59 of Midlife Reset, Diana Devi – clinical pharmacist of 40 years and Argentine tango teacher – opens with a hilarious yet eye-opening personal confession: the day a stranger in

There’s a sense you’ve used every single day of your life and never once trained. You don’t notice it, right up until the day it wobbles. That’s your balance. It’s not luck. It’s not something you’re just born keeping or losing. It’s a skill, the same as muscle. In this episode you’ll learn: Why balance

There is a bank account you have been ignoring your whole life. You cannot see the balance, nobody sent you a statement, yet it is the single account that decides whether your next twenty years are yours to spend or yours to survive. It isn’t your savings – it is your muscle. In Episode 57