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Anna Richardson

'I can't stop wishing I was my younger self again – what can I do?'

A headshot of woman&home columnist Anna Richardson is overlaid over a woman's hands holding a holiday photo of a young woman.

You may have noticed a big trend on social media at the moment for 2016 nostalgia, with celebrities and non-famous people (many of them in their 20s and 30s) sharing photos of places they travelled, what they wore and what they were up to.

While testing our 2016 knowledge has been fun, the trend has also proven oddly triggering and confusing for some of us midlife women. As woman&home ecommerce editor Heidi Scrimgeour says, "If you, too, are feeling dizzy as the waves of nostalgia break all around you, I see you. It feels discombobulating because it is; it reminds us, sometimes sharply, of the fact that we are no longer the young ones."

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