40 Something: Mag Suzy

“I’m not even the full sandwich—my parents are still healthy. But I’m the dental appointment generation. I schedule orthodontist for my son and a colonoscopy for my father-in-law in the same ten-minute work break.” Her advice? “Lower the bar to the floor. If everyone is fed and no one is bleeding, you’ve won the day.”

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“We spend our 30s striving,” Suzy says, leaning back in her chair, a half-empty mug of coffee cooling beside a stack of laundry she refuses to fold until deadline. “At 44, I realized striving was just another word for performing. And I’m exhausted from performing.” “I’m not even the full sandwich—my parents are

There’s a moment in every 40-something woman’s life when she stops apologizing for the space she takes up. For Suzy, the beloved columnist and resident “real-talk” contributor for 40-Something Magazine , that moment came somewhere between a forgotten dental appointment and helping her youngest child navigate a panic attack before a math test. “Lower the bar to the floor

“I wrote about my daughter finding my chin hair tweezers. I wrote about my husband forgetting my birthday for the third year in a row—not out of malice, but out of the mundane chaos of dual careers. I wrote about looking in the Zoom camera and not recognizing the tired woman staring back.”

Suzy is unflinching about career. “Your 40s are when you realize the corner office you chased is just another room with bad lighting. The question becomes: What actually feels like mine? ” She recently turned down a promotion to write her column and start a Substack. “Everyone thought I was crazy. I’ve never been saner.” Why She Resonates Now In a media landscape obsessed with either 20-something hustle or 60-something empty-nest enlightenment, the 40-something woman is often the “sandwich” of publishing—too old for trend pieces, too young for retirement features. Suzy bulldozes that gap.

“At 42, my body suddenly had new rules. I gained weight where I never had. My sleep became a suggestion. The medical system gaslit me into thinking I was anxious. I wasn’t anxious—I was estrogen-deficient.” Suzy’s recent series on HRT (hormone replacement therapy) and the “invisible slide” into perimenopause prompted the magazine to run a dedicated health supplement for the first time in a decade.