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In your 20s, you'll feel like you're losing the race. It's important to understand that there is no race.

May July remind you that you’re allowed to enjoy your life while you’re building it.

If you spent the first half of 2026 in survival mode, may the second half be spent in revival mode. It’s time to heal.

there's no better after me

So many women have internalized the idea that being difficult makes people think less of them, when in my experience the opposite is almost always true. Every single time I have spoken up, voiced what I actually need and refused to shrink the moment in order to be more comfortable for everyone else in the room, I have been approached afterward by people who wanted to know me better. There is no reward waiting for you on the other side of making yourself smaller. People do not love you more for taking up less space, they simply get used to you taking up less space and adjust their expectations accordingly. Every time I have been exactly as audacious as the moment required, it has opened doors rather than closed them and I have made real connections directly because of it rather than in spite of it.

you don’t need to reinvent yourself this summer; you simply need to return to the things that make you feel most like you