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Yes! Hope you had a lovely one, Bangs 🎈🍰🎁

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Thanks girl!

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Lá Breithe Shona Duit! And amen to all your words. I am 48 on Monday, single, a chosen child freer, invested in my own growth and happiness and my oh my am I loving my life and myself. Isn't it just fantastic when you hit your stride!?

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It sure is!

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Happy life, the universe, and everything birthday!

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Thank you love!

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Happy day, happy year. Love your reflections!

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Thanks so much!

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All of these things, as someone who is close to turning forty I think a lot of us women struggle with all of the things you have discussed today. Thank you for the reminder that we are all in this together, to put ourselves first and to have different expectations then those typically laid out for our gender and age. Taking care of oneself is not selfish and that we get to set the rules for our lives! Happy birthday Bangs thanks for the words and insight always!

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Ahh I'm so glad this resonated for you - thanks for reading!

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I absolutely LOVE this, as someone who is turning 41 in a few months it's easy to get sucked into the corporate, patriarchal world of comparison (usually with women 10/15/20 years younger) and inadequacy, but these are some SERIOUS rules to live by. Thank you for the inspiration, and Happy f*cking Birthday! ✨🤩 🥳

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Thanks girl!

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A-effing-men!

Happy Birthday Bangs!

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Thanks Mags!

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Happy birthday. Thank you for sharing this gift with us. I particularly feel you on not prioritising romantic relationships. Game changer. Frees up so much headspace!

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Doesn't it just!

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Happy Birthday, here’s to another trip around the sun.

Love this list, especially the points on not being your mother or grandmothers 42 & ‘There is no right time only time and you choose what you do with it”

Carrying that one forth with me 💫

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Glad this resonated for you - thanks for reading!

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