THE MID(ISH) BLOG

By:  Autumn Backhaus, PhD 

We have good intentions.
We follow the science.
We promote prevention, longevity, and healthy aging.

But our training reinforces a narrow frame:

We screen young people fo...

By: Autumn Backhaus, PhD

We’ve seen this before.

Postpartum women came in describing emotional chaos: Anxiety, rage, disconnection, panic, insomnia, sadness. Obsessiveness. Extreme fears. Shame.

We...

By Shadi Gholizadeh, PhD, MPH

“I used to handle everything. Why am I suddenly unraveling over the smallest things?”

In my clinical work with high-achieving women, this is one of the most common—and ...

By Shadi Gholizadeh, PhD, MPH

More and more women in midlife are asking versions of the same quiet question:

Why does my brain feel different—and why wasn’t I warned?

They describe lapses in focus,...

She snapped.

Her 11-year-old was stalling on bedtime—again. The sixth “Just one more thing.” And suddenly, she was yelling. Not firm parenting, not boundary-setting. *Yelling.* “You make everything s...

How Fried Green Tomatoes gave me language for perimenopause.

By: Autumn Backhaus, PhD

Before the age of 18, I’d watched Fried Green Tomatoes more than ten times.

Read the book too.

As a teenager i...

By: Autumn Backhaus, PhD

Two moms. One confusing midlife chapter. A shared realization that changed everything.

We were both quietly unraveling—forgetting things, snapping more than we wanted to, wa...

By: Autumn Backhaus, PhD

This one’s vulnerable.

To the women in their late 30s and early 40s who are still trying to build their families—or aren’t even sure yet if they want to, but know that famil...