Last month I drank Champagne to mark five years since my breast cancer diagnosis.

The typical milestone people celebrate is five years cancer-free. I chose to celebrate the diagnosis anniversary instead, to remind myself of the deeply shocking start to the story that has brought me to this point. A point where I am enjoying good health, a new career, closer friendships, more time and more headspace. And when I say enjoy, I really mean it. I relish my life now. It all started to take shape on the day I was told: could be Stage III, maybe IV — the biopsy will confirm it. It was quite the coin toss.

Now, if you’re quietly tutting to yourself about why a healthspan coach — especially one who has had (Stage III) cancer — would drink alcohol when she knows it increases the risk of recurrence, stick with me. Because I think this is more about what a treat actually delivers, and whether we are choosing our treats or defaulting to them.

I know what drinking alcohol does to me. In the short term it usually wrecks my sleep and dents my next-day recovery. The Whoop data tells the story plainly: 65% sleep when I routinely hit 90%, 18% recovery when my average is around 70%. Those lifestyle factors are…factoring - hard!

Longer term, I know there’s a health cost, too — in brain health especially. I’ve read the research and I coach women on healthspan. I am not pleading ignorance.

And yet I chose the Champagne. Deliberately, consciously, and without apology.

Here’s why I will continue to choose Champagne for celebrations, deliberately, consciously and without apology:

metrics are only information. They are not instructions.

That’s a distinction that matters and it’s one that I think most wellness culture gets completely wrong.

Sure, my Whoop telling me that the Champagne cost me recovery is useful data. It tells me what is happening in my body. But what I choose to do with that information is a separate decision, and it’s one that is entirely mine. It has to be, because it includes things that my HRV score does not - cannot - measure: meaning, connection, and, in this case, five years of being alive to raise a glass at all.

The app that records your HRV the morning after a glass of Champagne doesn’t know you’ve been celebrating. It just sees the dip. And if you let the dip be the whole story — a verdict on your actions rather than information about your body — then you are giving the metrics the right of veto over your memories. Which seems to me to be a very poor trade.

A version of our current wellness culture seems to treat indulgence as a leak in the system. A deviation from optimal; something to be logged, regretted, and corrected. I understand where that comes from because data is seductive, and green scores can start to feel like evidence of a life well-lived. But scores are only a one-dimensional measure. They have nothing to say about what the moment being measured actually meant.

I choose to drink Champagne, which is - bar the odd dram - the only alcohol I still drink, with full awareness of what it costs my body. I accept that cost because I want to cherish the moment and make the memory. It is a conscious decision made by someone who understands the trade-off and has decided it is worth making.

Secret chocolate, eaten alone, because the day was hard and nobody’s watching? That is definitely not the same as a glass of Champagne raised with those who know what the day means to you, even if the physiological impact of both treats registers the same. One is filling a hole in your day to numb it. The other is marking the day to cherish it.

The intention changes everything.

Five years since my diagnosis. A celebratory glass of Champagne. My Whoop score that told me what it cost.

And it was worth every point ;)

Go well.

Deborah Brazendale

If the idea that metrics are not verdicts resonates with you, you might like my kind of coaching.

I work with women who are taking care of everything except their future health and their current happiness - helping them to reconnect to the four foundations of eat, sleep, move, and play, and what it actually takes to keep the circuit flowing.

No optimisation for its own sake, just a life that feels as good as it looks.

Find out more at deborahbrazendale.com.

Today is World Population Day.

The headline figure is that usually dominates any coverage of this day is 8.3 billion people and counting. And then the fact that the global population is still growing and the age pyramid is slowly inverting as birth rates fall and life expectancy rises.

But there is a second number hiding inside that headline that matters more for you and me.

Over the last sixty years (my entire life), for every year of life gained, we spend an extra six months in poor health. We are living longer, but we are not living better. The gap between how long we live and how well we live - the healthspan/lifespan gap - is projected to widen continuously into the next century.

Now, this is not some niche finding from a healthspan coaching newsletter. It is the conclusion of the McKinsey Health Institute, published in a body of research that represents one of the most comprehensive examinations of global health ever conducted. And today, on World Population Day, McKinsey released their findings on how we might start to positively impact the healthspan gap.

The McKinsey Health Institute has a number they return to repeatedly: scaling proven interventions could add nine healthy years to life and deliver $12.5 trillion in global economic gains by 2050. Twelve and a half trillion dollars! That is the price of the healthspan gap - and, therefore, the prize for closing it.

But here is the key to how McKinsey describes those proven interventions: they are not pharmaceuticals or biomedical breakthroughs. They are not even expensive clinical programmes that are available only to a wealthy minority.

No, instead it is the ‘tried and true’ factors of nutrition, physical activity, sleep, stress management, and social connection that play a central role in shaping long-term health outcomes. Those are McKinsey’s words, in a report aimed at governments, health systems, and global investors.

Nutrition. Physical activity. Sleep. Social connection.

Oh, hello, ‘Eat. Move. Sleep. Play’.

A 58-page economic report, written for world leaders, just described The Circuit without even knowing it was the framework a healthspan coach in the East Neuk of Fife has built her entire practice around! Hah. Okay, so the language is different, but the conclusion is the same…

This matters for two reasons.

The first is validation. When I tell you that the four foundations of eat, sleep, move, and play are the most powerful levers most of us have over our own healthspan, I am not asking you to take that on my authority as a coach. I am pointing you toward a growing body of evidence that includes the McKinsey Health Institute, the Lancet Commission, the Mandsager cardiovascular research, and the work of researchers like Dr Vonda Wright. Their consensus is compelling - and strengthening.

The second is urgency. OECD countries currently spend just 2.8% of their health budgets on prevention, vaccination and health education. 2.8%! A tiny proportion on prevention, meanwhile we are struggling to keep up with demands for diagnosis and treatment. Be clear: governments are not going to fund their way to your healthspan. The policy conversation is important and slow and necessary, but - thankfully - you do not have to wait for it!

This is the thing I keep returning to, and it is at the heart of everything I write here. The gap between lifespan and healthspan is real, it is widening, and it is - for most of us, most of the time - something we can reduce through the four foundations or pillars of healthspan. Not entirely, of course, and not without some individual intention and effort, but certainly meaningfully, and - reassuringly - by starting from wherever you are right now.

Which brings me to the question I am asked most often, and the one I want to answer in more depth today.

Which pillar should I start with? Eat? Sleep? Move or Play?

The honest answer is: it depends. And I know that is not the easy instruction most people want. But it is the true one, and understanding why it is true is actually more useful than any generic ranking of the four pillars.

The four pillars that make up the Circuit don’t function in isolation. They are inter-connected; the Circuit is self-reinforcing in both directions. I wrote about this here. A gain anywhere lifts the whole system. Which means the most important thing about your starting point is not which pillar you choose, it’s that you choose one. And it is important that the one you choose is genuinely achievable for you right now, in your actual life, with your actual constraints. When it fits your life, it lifts your life.

That said, the research does suggest some patterns worth knowing.

Sleep has the broadest downstream effect. Poor sleep degrades appetite regulation, motivation to move, emotional resilience, and cognitive function simultaneously. It is the pillar that, when it fails, fails everything else. If your sleep is significantly compromised, fixing it — even partially — tends to lift the others. It is the strings section of the orchestra: when they are present, everything sounds warmer.

Move has the strongest single evidence base for longevity. The Mandsager research makes a compelling case that even modest improvements in physical capacity pay outsized dividends. And physical capacity responds to exercise faster than almost any other system in the body. Changes are measurable within weeks.

Eat is the foundation where most women have absorbed the most misinformation, and where the research has moved furthest in the last decade. The gut microbiome, glucose regulation, the shared table as medicine… these are not the same conversations we were having even five or ten years ago. Small, specific changes here tend to produce visible results quickly, which makes them good starting points for anyone who needs early evidence that the circuit is moving.

Play is the most underestimated. It is the first thing that capable women sacrifice, and the last thing they restore. But the research on cognitive reserve, on the emotional dividend of awe and absorption and genuine laughter, is unambiguous: play is not the reward for doing the other three well. It is a foundation in its own right. Without it, the circuit dims in a way that is hard to explain but all too easy to feel. That life you built that looks great from the outside but somehow feels flat on the inside? That’s a life that’s missing play.

McKinsey frames all of this as a $12.5 trillion opportunity. I understand why they frame it that way: that’s the language that prompts policy shifts by governments and interests investors.

But for you, sitting here with me during your lunch hour or on a Sunday evening, the number that matters to you (and me) is not twelve and a half trillion. It is the number of years between where our healthspan ends and where our life ends. And what we can do, starting this week, to begin closing that gap.

The current was always there. The circuit’s flow of energy is waiting to be restored. The global evidence is simply confirming what your body has been trying to tell you.

References

Office for National Statistics

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/healthandlifeexpectancies/bulletins/healthstatelifeexpectanciesuk/between2011to2013and2022to2024/pdf

The Health Foundation

https://www.health.org.uk/reports-and-analysis/analysis/healthy-life-expectancy-trends-in-the-uk-a-watershed-moment

CDC

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db548.htm

Mandsager K, Harb S, Cremer P, Phelan D, Nissen SE, Jaber W.
Association of Cardiorespiratory Fitness With Long-term Mortality Among Adults Undergoing Exercise Treadmill Testing.
JAMA Network Open. 2018;1(6):e183605. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2018.3605

McKinsey Insights: https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/themes/world-population-day-why-healthier-populations-are-key-to-stronger-economies

We tend to think of a body as a thing, don’t we? Especially in this age of commoditised wellness. It’s somehow become a possession to maintain, a machine to service, a structure that holds together until it does not. But a living body is not really a thing at all. It is a flow. It is energy passing through: oxygen drawn in and turned into motion, turned into thought, into warmth, into the reach toward another person, into connection and living. And then drawn in again.

Life is not stored. It is conducted.

Let me describe a woman you might recognise.

She is mostly well. Mostly doing okay. Nothing puritan, but she’s paying attention. She’s eating reasonably well. She is sleeping adequately. Not brilliantly, but adequately. She is moving, occasionally. She is doing, broadly speaking, the right things. And yet something is flat. Something is missing. The energy she expected to feel, the version of herself she was working toward, has never quite arrived.

The checklist is ticked, by and large, but the expected pay-off, the dividend, never came.

This is the most common experience I encounter in my work, and it is almost never discussed openly. Because if you are doing the right things and still feel wrong, the obvious (and self-inflicted/media-promoted) conclusion is that something is wrong with you. Your willpower. Your consistency. Your commitment. It’s not the programme, it’s you. You are failing the programme.

But what if it is the programme that’s failing you?

Here is the framework I have built my healthspan coaching around. I have not encountered it framed this way anywhere else, so I am going to lay claim to it and lay it out for you, let it stand on its own.

Health is not four things to do. It is one thing to restore.

The four foundations I work with, which are eat, sleep, move, and play, are not a checklist. They are a circuit. Energy comes in on one side and goes out on the other, and the quality of your life depends not on any single pillar but on how well the whole thing flows.

The split looks like this:

Energy in: Eat and Sleep. Eat is fuel taken on board. Sleep is restoration and repair. It’s the body putting itself back together overnight, consolidating memory, regulating appetite, rebuilding what the day spent. These are the two ways you create and replenish your energy.

Energy out: Move and Play. Move is energy spent through the body. Play is energy spent through engagement - with people, with purpose, with the things that absorb and delight you. These are the two ways your energy is expressed and discharged.

Fuel in, energy out: a circuit.

At this level the circuit’s energy in and out is straightforward enough. You cannot spend what you have not taken on board. And energy taken on board with nowhere to go does not sit quietly - left too long it curdles into restlessness, agitation, poor sleep, a body holding tension it never released.

The circuit can fail on either side. Too much out and not enough in is depletion: that all-too-familiar state of running on empty, giving and doing and spending until there is nothing left to draw on. On the other hand, too much in and not enough out is stagnation: the negative energy of too many calories in, too much sleep, both of which can be a sign of low mood and even depression: fuelled and rested but with no outlet, energy with nowhere to flow. Both create imbalance. Both types of failure - of energy in or out - degrade the whole system, not just the side they sit on.

Most capable women I work with are caught in depletion. They have been running the energy-out side of this circuit - for their families, their work, other people’s crises - without adequately replenishing the energy-in side. And they have concluded, because this is what our culture suggests, that the solution is more discipline. More effort. A better morning routine.

Reader, it is not. And you know it. You’ve tried it.

The solution is to restore the flow.

Here is what most wellness models miss, and what I consider to be the most important and underappreciated idea in this space.

When the physical circuit is flowing, when in and out are roughly matched, it does not simply keep you functioning. It pays a dividend. That dividend is emotional and cognitive: it’s how you feel, how clearly you think, that background contentment, that particular sense of feeling like yourself again.

This is the part you cannot reach directly. You cannot think your way into feeling like yourself. You cannot will yourself into clarity or warmth or motivation. You have to run the circuit first, and then the dividend follows.

And every pillar pays into it, not only the obvious ones.

Move, when you are fit enough to enjoy it rather than endure it, lifts mood and clears the head. The dividend here compounds: the fitter you are, the more emotional and cognitive return movement gives you, which makes you want to move again.

Sleep does not just leave you more awake. It leaves you resilient, even-tempered, able to meet the day rather than brace against it.

Play - and this is the one most often sacrificed first - restores you emotionally in ways nothing else does. Laughter, awe, connection, absorption - being in that special state of flow when you lose all track of time: these are not indulgences earned after the real work. They are the return the system pays when it is working.

Eat, and this is the one most women lose in the mundanity of daily meals, was never meant to be prescriptive or solitary or a matter of compliance. It is the shared table. Pleasure, nourishment, the company of others. Done in that spirit it pays an emotional and cognitive dividend that is every bit as real as the nutritional one.

The dividend is not paid only by the energy-out pillars. It is paid by all four, when they are done in balance and with intention rather than as items on a list with gritted teeth.

There is one more thing worth knowing about my circuit, and it is the most practically hopeful part of this framework.

The circuit is self-reinforcing in both directions. It can spiral up just as it can spiral down.

Run well, it builds on itself. Good sleep makes movement easier. Movement pays an emotional dividend that motivates more movement. A nourishing meal shared with people you love restores you and makes you want to gather again. A gain anywhere lifts the whole system.

Run badly, it spirals the other way. Too depleted to move, so less of the dividend that movement pays, so less motivation, so deeper depletion. This is the spiral so many people are quietly caught in and it is why willpower alone rarely breaks it.

You do not need more discipline. You need to get the circuit flowing again, at any point, because a gain anywhere lifts the whole system.

This is also why the question of which pillar to start with matters less than most people think. There is no wrong door. Fix whatever seems most fixable to you. Start with the easiest option. Make it as easy and achievable as you can.

For example, say you’re feeling stuck in a negative loop with people you care about. You’re stressed at work and not doing well at managing it. But the conversations to restore harmony feel too loaded, too explosive. The mood is too charged. Switch tactic. Fix your sleep and your eating gets easier and your capacity to move returns and your patience for the people you love comes back. The pillars are not four problems to solve. They are one circuit to restore.

Underneath this circuit model of our foundational health and energy, and my theory of its balance and restoration, there is a further, more expansive idea. Stick with me. I offer this as a way of seeing rather than any kind of clinical claim, but I have shared it with some of my clients and know it helped with some perspective shifts and a greater sense of agency, so see what you think...

The idea that we can restore our energy by fixing circuit can be challenging to those who feel their family history is working against them, no matter what they do. A history of heart disease, maybe, or a pattern of anxiety or depression, ‘bad genes’. I understand the concern: I have the APOE4 gene - the one implicated in Alzheimer’s disease. Our DNA, miraculous on one level, can feel like a burden on another - a life sentence, even.

But I’d like to suggest a new way of considering this: maybe your DNA, for all that it can feel like a sentence already passed, is closer to a musical score. The musical notes are already written, some of them beautiful, some of them difficult, many of them handed to you by people you never even met. The score is fixed. But a musical score is silent; it is merely ink on a page. It does nothing at all until someone plays it.

What you do every day, how you eat and sleep and move and play, determines who shows up to play your musical score. Live with the circuit flowing and you have a full orchestra at your disposal. Let a pillar fall away and chairs in the orchestra pit sit empty. Lose your sleep and the strings don’t show up. Lose your play and the brass never sounds. Poor nutrition means your percussion is off. And so the music you can make from the very same score is thinner. And the terrible thing is that you can hear it is thinner, without quite knowing why.

And it’s not because the score changed. It’s because not everyone came to play it.

I find this the most hopeful idea I know behind building or rebuilding your health. Because a health blip or stall is simply a loss of flow. And flow can be restored. The players can be called back. Not all at once, perhaps, but start with a section at a time. An early night. A walk in the morning. A meal with people you love. A thing you do purely because it makes you feel like yourself.

Each one is another musician returning to their chair. And the music will thicken as they do. You can hear it thicken. Feel it thicken. It matters not how long the music lasts, what matters most how well it is played.

We can talk more about this on the 29th of June, if you like.

Salon 29 is my free monthly gathering, online, informal, one hour. No prep required, no prior knowledge needed, no performance expected. Come as you are, with whatever state your circuit is in.

The first one is this Sunday. If you would like to be there, the registration link is below. Space is limited to keep it intimate, and several places are already taken.

I’d love to see you there.

Go Well.

Register here for Salon 29

Joan started at seventy.

Chances are, if you’re here because you’ve got an interest in your health or healthspan, you already know about Joan. She’s IG-famous to the point where just ‘Joan’ is probably enough for you to find her account there. [Though not ‘just Joan’, as in Romancing the Stone, if we’re properly connecting right now!]

Joan wasn’t seventy and reasonably fit, she wasn’t seventy and already active. She was seventy, deconditioned, and, by her own account, ‘in the worst shape of her life’. She’s now eighty, and the transformation in her body composition, strength, and physical capability over the last decade is the kind of thing that stops you mid-scroll and makes you reconsider everything you thought you knew about what ageing actually means.

Here’s the best bit: Joan is not an outlier. In fact, she’s evidence. Living proof.

Sue (not her real name) is 64 and lives near the coast. She works full time, mostly at a desk, and, for her, exercise has “never been a thing”. It’s not a thing she abandoned, or a thing she used to do and fell away from it was just never a thing. She came in to #90DaysDone because she’d shifted in her thinking, answering a quiet alarm she simply couldn’t ignore any longer. Stairs had become something she negotiated one at a time, handrail required. Her balance was unreliable and she felt vulnerable. Her strength was low. She knew it before she filled in the questionnaire but the questionnaire confirmed it:

She scored 1 out of 12 on the Move assessment.

“Ok, it’s really bad,” she messaged me, fronting up with the particular honesty of someone who has decided that denial is no longer useful.

I sent her the results. And I pointed her to one line in particular. It’s a line I share here and invite you to read carefully, because it is the scientific basis for everything this essay is arguing:

Physical capacity responds to exercise faster than almost any other system in the body. Changes are measurable within weeks.

Within weeks.

How reassuring is that?! This is not about needing years to undo what the years have done. Making a positive impact on your physical ability does not need a decade of discipline and sacrifice. It needs weeks. This is not only motivational speak, it’s a physiological fact, and it changes the entire conversation about whether it is ever too late to start.

Here is what the science says about the body’s capacity for change, at any age.

Maybe you’ve also seen Dr Vonda Wright online? She’s an orthopedic surgeon who spent twenty years at the University of Pittsburgh researching musculoskeletal ageing and longevity, specifically to dispel the commonly-held belief that ‘ageing is an inevitable decline’. Her work, and her recent New York Times best-seller Unbreakable (2025), is the most comprehensive and women-specific treatment of this subject I have encountered. I highly recommend it to you.

Dr Wright’s central finding is both simple and radical: frailty is not inevitable.

What makes this particularly relevant for women is the hormonal dimension that most longevity research has historically ignored and too many doctors have underplayed. Estrogen receptors exist throughout the body, in muscle, bone, and brain. As estrogen declines through perimenopause and beyond, nearly every organ system feels the effect of that decline. We can lose 15 to 20 percent of bone density during perimenopause alone! That’s faster than men lose bone at any point in their lives. And it’s not just bone (just Joan): the brain, the cardiovascular system, the joints - they’re all affected (made worse).

But…this is not cause for despair! It is cause for clarity, for specificity, even. Because once you understand the mechanism, you can understand - and implement - the intervention.

Muscle tissue, it turns out, is extraordinarily responsive to resistance training at any age. Sarcopenia, which is the age-related loss of muscle mass, is not a sentence or a verdict, because it’s a condition that responds to load. Studies consistently show that women in their sixties, seventies, and eighties who begin resistance training build measurable muscle, improve functional strength, and reduce their risk of falls and fractures significantly, often within eight to twelve weeks of starting. Our third-age bodies do not stop being trainable; they simply stop being trained by us.

This is Irmgard (below) and Irmgard hiking with her friends. She was my Dad’s partner for the last 12 years of his life and she’s now 85.

85! 👀

These photos are no more than 3 years old, and the hiking companions with Irmgard are all deep into their 80s, too. In fact, one is now 90. Still hiking. Still exploring the beautiful scenery of Mallorca, where they all live. Fewer steep hills maybe, but still walking up to 6km on their leisurely, picnic-sharing, companionable hikes. They can do this in their 80s and 90s not because they are super-human (although they are all super humans, I can tell you), but because they just never stopped. Most Sundays, most weeks throughout Mallorca’s cooler months, they meet, they walk and they talk.1

As well as supporting muscle and bone strength, movement - both cardio and strength training - also impacts our heart health, and the cardiovascular picture is equally hopeful for late starters looking for lasting impact. VO2 max, the measure of cardiorespiratory fitness that the Mandsager research2 identified as a stronger predictor of longevity than smoking, hypertension, or diabetes, is not fixed. It is trainable. At sixty. At seventy. Steady-state aerobic exercise, done consistently, improves it at any age. As your VO2 max ceiling rises, so your healthspan trajectory changes.

And then there is neuroplasticity, which is perhaps the most underappreciated piece of this whole thing. The brain does not stop forming new connections in midlife. In fact, cognitive reserve, the brain’s resilience against decline, can be actively built through physical exercise, through learning, and through the kind of engagement that comes from a shared hike. Movement is not just good for your body. It is structurally protective for your brain.

None of this requires perfection. None of it requires hours at a gym or a radical reinvention of daily life. What the research consistently shows is that the dose needed to produce meaningful change is lower than most people assume. And that the lower your starting point, the lower your baseline, the faster and more dramatically those improvements will arrive.

Which brings us back to Sue.

Within days of joining my #90daysDONE group, Sue walked from one end of a nearby harbour to the other. Bearing in mind her nervousness about balance, she managed uneven, cobbled ground, two glasses of wine, and a steep hill on the way back! She chose the wine (optimising joy), and she chose the hill over the steps because, she said, she wanted the challenge.

She recently started myofascial release therapy. She’s building small movements into her day (windmills, arm swings, stretches) and she’s now paying attention.

And then she said something that I have been thinking about since. Not something I told her. Something she arrived at herself.

Anything I do to increase movement will have an impact on reversing the trajectory.

I didn’t need to tell her that it wasn’t too late. She just needed the science to confirm what some part of her already suspected: that the body she had been living in, the one that was struggling with stairs and handrails and wary of cobblestones, was not a fixed state. It was a starting point.

Which is what a baseline is. Please don’t see your current health as a verdict. Instead try to see it as a starting point.

Joan started at seventy. Sue started at 64. The research on women who began resistance training and aerobic exercise in their sixties and seventies is wonderfully unambiguous: the body responds: bone density improves; muscle mass increases; balance recovers; cardiovascular fitness rises. The trajectory changes.

Not just for some women. Not just for those already-fit women who somehow knew how to get in shape and stay in shape when the rest of us were still stuck with those quick-fix diets of the 1980s that promised skinny and delivered misery.

No, movement shifts the healthspan trajectory for just about all of us, provided we start.

The question is not whether it is too late.

The question, as it has always been, is what you are going to do with the time you have.

Dr Vonda Wright puts it simply: stop believing the narrative that your best years are behind you. The science does not support that narrative. What the science supports is this: the choices you make now, in your fifties, your sixties, your seventies, will determine not just how long you live but how well. Your healthspan is not fixed at birth or by your DNA. That the gap between where you are and where you could be is, for most women, significantly closeable.

Sue knows this now and Joan’s already proved it. The research simply confirms it.

So, it’s not too late. It was not too late at seventy for Joan. It is not too late at 64 for Sue. And whatever age you’re reading this at, it is almost certainly not too late for you.

Just start.

Go well.

P.S.

1. If you’re curious about how to start protecting your own healthspan, you might like to see which of the four foundational pillars (eat, sleep, move and play) would give you the most impact. Take my free Healthspan taster quiz to get some direction.

2. #90daysDONE is open until Sunday if you’d like the support and companionship of capable women figuring out their own healthspan habits. It’s on IG (@deborahbrazendale) and WhatsApp. Pick a goal from eat, sleep, move or play and we’ll help you to make a habit of the action/s that will see you get it done by the end of August.

3. Interested to join Level Up in Mallorca? Join the waitlist and I’ll let you know the what, when and where of it all as I plan it - no obligation.

REFERENCE:

Wright, Vonda MD. Unbreakable: A Woman's Guide to Aging with Power. Rodale Books (Penguin Random House), 26 August 2025. ISBN: 978-0-593-73658-6