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.

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Platinum

Inspiration from our contributors • Meet the brilliant experts bringing you energy, creativity and love in this month’s edition.

Life Almanac • May has a different tempo. There’s warmth in the air and depth in the greenery. Gardens are established, windows are flung open again, and everything feels more assured than it did a few weeks ago. It’s a good month to lift your head and look outward again. To engage. To be curious. To notice what’s opening up – culturally, socially, personally - and step into it with confidence.

‘I was told I’d never amount to anything’ • Crime writer Peter James on bullying, midnight inspiration, Maltesers confessions and the moment he finally became a Sunday Times Number One.

BOOKS WE ♥ • Platinum’s Book Editor Adele Parks shares six unmissable reads that will keep you thinking long after the final page. Whether you’re craving mind-bending suspense, laugh-out-loud honesty or pure escapist glamour, Adele’s expertly chosen selection proves there’s no better time to get gloriously lost in a book.

Why we’re falling for Keeley AGAIN • We’re completely devoted to Ms Hawes as she captures our hearts with a touching tale of unexpected love in her new Channel 4 drama Falling.

Choose to thrive! • Feel good, stay strong – health, happiness, wellbeing and ageing brilliantly with Health Editor Rachel Dobson.

To be, not just to seem • On a rain-soaked Yorkshire moor, Rachel Dobson discovers that real fitness isn’t about the kit you own or the label you claim, it’s about the uncomfortable effort you’re willing to make.

Hot stuff • Foods that tame the flames of menopause

Midlife ADHD: Why are so many women only finding out now? • Discovering you are neurodiverse later in life can be transformative, says ADHD coach Gabrielle Treanor. Here’s what it means and what to do now.

‘I keep people pleasing and resenting it’ • Each month, therapist, coach and author Eve Menezes Cunningham helps Platinum readers tackle one big midlife challenge.

DR DAWN HARPER’S HEALTH SECRETS • Dr Dawn explains why midlife exhaustion is so common – and how to reset your stress system and reclaim your energy.

‘I am 60, exhausted and have brain fog – and big pension envy’ • Menopause, burnout and a thin pension are forcing a rethink for one reader – but maybe this isn’t decline, it’s redesign, says expert Dr Claire Jack.

Draped in sunshine!

The ruffle revival • Nicky Hambleton-Jones shares eight easy ways to wear the season’s...