There is a kind of tired that sleep does not fix. It is the tired of holding it all together. Of being the one who remembers the appointment, the refill, the birthday, the call that needs returning, the thing nobody else noticed. From the outside you look like you have it handled. On the inside you have been going for a long time, and no one has said thank you in a while. If that is you, this month is for you. We tend to think we have to earn our worth by how much we do and how many people we...

There is a version of summer we’re sold — golden light, effortless mornings, the sense that everything, including our bodies, should simply ease up for a few months. But your hormones don’t read the calendar. They don’t take a season off, and neither do the systems they regulate: energy, sleep, mood, focus, metabolism, temperature control, and how well we recover from stress. In conversations with our hormone expert Dr. Shamsah Amersi, we return to this point again and again. The hormonal...

Longer days, warmer nights, travel, and changing routines can all shift the way we sleep—especially in midlife. Summer is supposed to feel easier, right? The days are longer. Dinner happens later. We spend more time outside, travel more, see friends, and try to make the most of every warm evening. There is often a little less structure and a little more spontaneity. It all sounds relaxing. And yet, somehow, many of us end up more tired. We stay up later because it does not feel like bedtime....