Being Gen X doesn’t mean I party like I’m 20 anymore, but it also doesn’t mean I’ve surrendered to nylon tights and sensible slippers.

During yoga therapy today, my yogi and I were discussing the aches in my shoulders and the creaks in my spine. The reality is that movement matters now in a way it never used to. Feeling strong, mobile and relatively pain-free is increasingly the goal, not punishing ourselves in pursuit of youth.

And then we realised something slightly hilarious. The women in The Golden Girls were supposedly around our age - 53/54. But we are not the Golden Girls.

We are a freer, more health-aware generation. We give ourselves permission to pause, breathe, stretch, travel, reinvent ourselves, start over, prioritise mental health and invest time and energy into staying well. Yes, we creak occasionally getting out of bed. Yes, we now discuss magnesium with alarming sincerity.

But we are not quietly fading into old age. We are evolving into it differently. And honestly? I think that’s progress. That’s why Gen X is Gen Free.