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My first Yu-Gi-Oh! meetup seemed doomed to disaster after I unwittingly used an illegal deck against a perfect stranger. Little did I know, friendship and community were in the cards.

A business collapse. A child’s leukemia diagnosis. A realization that life could be different. For three Manitoban women, midlife became the moment to rethink work and to rebuild their careers on their own terms.

Anxiety has always felt personal, like something wrong with me. It wasn’t until I looked at the patterns around me — the planning, the instinct to expect the worst — that I realized it was learned.