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Podcast: The Aging Project
Episode: A grown ups GAP YEAR with Monique Van Tulder
Description: At 54, exhausted and running on empty, Monique van Tulder did something radical — she walked away from the life that was draining her. What started as a small step — changing lightbulbs in another house — turned into five months of solitude, adventure, and self-discovery. She calls it A Grown Up’s Gap Year.
In this conversation, Monique shares the truth so many women over 50 will recognise: years of putting everyone else first, of pushing through fatigue and health scares, of saying yes when they wanted to say no.
Her story begins not with adventure, but with depletion — thyroid ca...