As soon as January 1, 2024, hits, I promise you’ll be ready to charge forward with inspiration and powerful motivation if you don’t wear yourself ragged over the holiday season.

So here I am, cozying up with a warm beverage and starting my annual wrap-up. Here’s what I loved and learned this year. I hope it provides you with some inspiration for your own reflection.

If you’re a woman turning forty-two-years-old soon, you’ve already crossed the threshold into your mid-forties, or you’re just curious and planning for the future, here are some of the ways I’m striving to live a fulfilled and fabulous life at forty-two years old.

This December, as I reflected on 2022, what I learned from others, what I learned about myself, and what I’d like to take into the new year, I realized that for 2023, there’s a clear set of guidelines I’d like to follow. Here is part one on relationships.

A nutritional expert, author, and former food and nutrition director at Health Magazine, Frances is no stranger to busy days, working to juggle life, family, and career. You can learn more about Frances on her website, but when we sat down, I became interested in learning more about how health fits into life as we now know it. Read the interview.

My family decided to drive from Central Oregon to Maine on our first cross-country camping road trip this summer. Here’s how we did it.

It's all fine and well to want to approach the holidays this year the way you feel is best but does 'your way' honor those with whom you want to celebrate? One of the biggest lessons I've learned in 2020 is that almost everyone I know has a different feeling about what's safe and a different approach to life right now. Read more about managing the stress of the holidays during this unusual time, with Coronavirus restrictions.

I'm a 39-year-old woman. I'm flawed. I don't love everyone and everything, and not everyone loves me. I am getting wrinkles, and I refuse to give up wine -- even though it might make me skinnier. I am working on loving myself and living the life that makes me content. I am a work in progress. And I'm cool with that. Read more on the Entreprenista Mama blog.

I continuously lived in fear when I was growing up. Fear that we would not be accepted. Fear that we would be unjustly targeted by the police. Fear that we would be shunned by our community. I did not live in fear of losing my life. At the end of the day, I am white, and in this country that's the difference between life and death.

Being 38-years-old doesn’t mean that at 40 your life will be over. It doesn’t mean that you have given all you have to give the world or are done growing and shaping your life. Here’s what it means to me to be 38 and a woman.

I spent years trying to force myself into a box of physical health that wasn’t working for my body or my mind. Don’t make the same mistake I did. Give yourself the gift of self-love now! Ready the latest Entreprenista Mama post on why being your best self sometimes takes changing your perspective.

With all of the craziness that comes with the holidays, especially if you have kiddos, it can seem insane to try tacking on personal growth planning during that time as well. So don’t! Read why setting your resolutions for the year in January can set you up better to achieve your goals this year.

Do you feel like your inner-self has been on the back burner lately? Are you only doing the things you must do, and not the hobbies, and activities you want to do? Find your inner self again. Get back to what makes you happy.

If you’ve started following us at Entreprenista Mama, then you know we are building a community of women who support women. In work, in motherhood, in transition and beyond. Here’s EM’s rundown of the top six blogs for women right now.