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The Science Behind Being Gentle With Yourself During Difficult Seasons   What is often framed as gentleness during high-pressure seasons is, in fact, a neuroscience-informed strategy for preserving cognitive capacity, emotional regulation, and long-term performance.   This analysis forms the first part of a HealthTalk series examining how neuroscience reshapes our understanding of performance, leadership and capacity under sustained pressure.   The question then becomes not

A large, decade-long observational study has found that regular tea consumption is associated with slightly stronger bone density in older women, while heavy coffee intake (five or more cups per day) is linked to lower bone density, particularly in postmenopausal women. These differences are modest, but they are not insignificant.

According to the World Economic Forum, over 50 percent of workers will require significant re-skilling by 2027, with women over forty facing the steepest skills obsolescence risk due to age bias, digital exclusion and organisational restructuring. McKinsey reports that women are twice as likely as men to experience imposter syndrome during periods of technological change, while Harvard Business Review highlights that microaggressions increase with seniority, not decrease.

Picture this. A senior leader, celebrated for her strategic brilliance, quietly steps down. Not because she lost her edge, but because her body changed. Across the globe, millions of women are leaving careers or scaling back ambitions due to unmanaged symptoms of menopause, heavy periods, fibroids and mental health challenges.

From Letting Go in 2025 to Building Power in 2026 What Women Need More of in the AI, Data and Cultural Intelligence Economy and Why the NBWN Is the Strategic Ally of the Next Era. If 2025 is the year women finally released what was draining them, then 2026 becomes the year they deliberately construct what will hold them. Letting go was never about weakness. It was about structural intelligence.