Platinum

Platinum is the magazine for women in the prime of their lives - and having the time of their lives, too. Platinum is for those women who are up-to-date in both style and attitude and interested in exploring the world around them. In the pages of Platinum, readers will find everything from in-depth reads to the latest from the world of well-being. Platinum magazine inspires you to live your best possible life with fun-loving, informative, uplifting, and motivational articles and features inside every issue. Rekindle your confidence with expert beauty, skincare, and fashion advice, learn how to curb your financial worries, maintain your fitness goals and so much more with Platinum as your ultimate lifestyle guide. Platinum magazine encourages you to try new styles, recipes, exercises plus much more and pushes you outside of your comfort so that you can make the most of your life and celebrate the incredible woman that you are every day. Discover the lifestyle magazine that is redefining the lives of women aged 55 and over and start living your best and most fabulous life every day.

Editor’s welcome • You can begin again.

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Inspiration from our contributors • Meet some of the brilliant minds sharing their wisdom in this month’s issue.

Life Almanac • From apple days and classical crescendos to walled-garden wanders and brilliant backstage passes – here’s everything clever, cultural and quietly fabulous happening this September.

‘Vulnerability can be your superpower’ • In our new author Q&A, we sit down with novelist and retreat founder Rosie Nixon to talk midlife reinventions, the joys of late motherhood, and why she’s finally ditched the “I’m fine!” fib. With her new book Bad Influence about to drop, Rosie reflects on truth-telling, beach days, and the power of saying no (unless it’s to a secluded seaside escape).

A great read BOOK CLUB • Whether you’re after cults, scandal, secrets or sobs-in-a-sunhat, this month’s picks from bestselling author Adele Parks, MBE, deliver gripping plots, big emotions and just enough escapism to make you forget your emails — at least until the ice in your G&T melts.

‘I still think I’m twenty-six’ • Celia Imrie never stops and that’s just the way she likes it. With a film, TV show and book all landing soon, Platinum sat down with her to find out what keeps her ticking.

MOORE’S MUSINGS • Platinum columnist and Loose Women presenter Jane Moore shares how a stint in the Celebrity... jungle taught her what decades of “pushing through” never could — the power of rest, and the permission to take it.

Choose to Thrive! • Feel good, stay strong: health, happiness, wellbeing, and ageing brilliantly.

How to be your very own Blue Zone • Inspired by her unstoppable 82-year-old mum, Rachel Dobson shares the simple habits that lead to a longer, healthier, more joyful life – no Sardinian postcode required.

Books to inspire deep rest this summer • Yoga teacher and author Paula Hines shares her go-to reads to help you slow down, reconnect, and experience the nourishing power of true rest - body, mind and soul.

‘I got stronger, healthier, and I changed career’ • Vijay Reed, 52, from Upminster in Essex, tells Platinum Health Editor Rachel Dobson how she overhauled her habits, ditched the booze, and found a new purpose – at home, at work, and in her body.

DR DAWN HARPER’S HEALTH SECRETS • Dr Dawn Harper lifts the lid on the weight-loss drugs transforming lives and the rising tide of type 2 diabetes.

‘Why am I always so tired?’ • Each month, therapist, coach and author Eve Menezes Cunningham helps Platinum readers tackle one big midlife challenge.

Heart and soul • Let’s explore the stories that bind us, break us, and help put us back together again.

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