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We’re celebrating some wonderful women this month, and the inspirationtheygiveus. Theamazing Emma Willis explains what gives her strength and why she’s learnt that she needs to take care of herself (page 14),sharing how the brilliant women she grew up with shaped her to be a role model for her own children – and, quite frankly, for the rest of us too. And I love our interview with the ‘most powerful woman in beauty’, blogger and skincare expert Caroline Hirons(page 80). It wasn’t that Caroline shared a revolutionary new skincare product that will make me look like a teenager again,or revealed how you should really pop a zit (you’ll have to go to her blog for that,but it’s well worth a visit).Instead,it was her refreshingly honest account of her discovery,just three yearsago,that she has ADHD. She details how she wassupporting her daughter as she went through the diagnosis,‘decided on a whim to do the questionnaire herself – and found she was ticking all the boxes’. But the bit I love is the freedom she seems to have gained from the news:it’s as if her whole life suddenly makes more sense, from her school days to her battles in the corporate world, the pieces fitting together more neatly now she understands the bigger picture. And the way she views this new picture is a joy:‘I turned it into a strength, and it’s allowed me to take risks.’ It’s an incredible lesson on howour attitude shapes our reality, andasmoreand more of us are discovering we are somewhere along the neurodiverse spectrum, a really refreshing way to look at what a diagnosis can mean.