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Rediscovering Your Gifts

Rediscovering Your Gifts

We each carry within us a treasure. Living deep inside, it is a quiet place where we can go to find our untarnished heart and a soul that is still pure. We once knew this place, our place where there is peace and understanding, wisdom and strength, though it may have slipped from our memory. The hours, days and years that we have struggled and pushed, yearned and stretched toward something more has powered us through our lives. It is “life yearning for itself”. Our desire for something more and incessant discontent led us down many a winding path and along the way we collected bits and pieces of life’s debris.  Instead of tossing the debris aside, we often instead as packaging material to...
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Finding Courage

Finding Courage

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”  ~ Anaïs Nin  A few years ago, a couple of friends and I bought matching silver “tree of life” pendants for our necklaces.  I love the tree of life and it’s representation of a healthy life with strong roots holding to the earth, and healthy limbs reaching for the sky.  Later, I added a small charm with the word courage carved into it, and another love charm later from a friend.  I treasured my jangling trio, until one day recently, I reached down and they were gone.  My necklace turned up at a place I had visited earlier in the day, but all three charms were gone. I was thinking about my missing charms a...
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Every Day We Have a Choice

Every Day We Have a Choice

  Every day you have a choice ~ to dwell on the past or focus on today. Ask yourself: what can I do today to bring me one step closer to my dream? You do have today…this moment…now. You owe it to yourself to make the most of it. Life goes by so quickly. It seems I turned around and in a flash my kids were grown and I’m nearing sixty. Age is just a number to me. I don’t feel old. I certainly don’t feel sixty, but I haven’t a clue what sixty feels like so I can’t be certain. It sure doesn’t feel like what it looked like when I was young!  My body is showing the effects of time, but I often forget...
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Post It Quote

Post It Quote

Byron Katie’s methodology is powerful. I highly recommend her writings. When I developed menopausal insomnia, I started downloading audio books and listening to them in the dark as I waited for sleep. This act of desperation turned into a God-send. It has become a habit that I look forward to every night. Any negative, anxiety laden thoughts that may want to float around in my mind are pushed aside and replaced with the powerfully positive words of wise women like Byron Katie, Martha Beck, Clarissa Pinkola Estes and others. Look for forthcoming reviews of these books/audios and more “Post-It-Quotes” like this one: Feel free to print, post, borrow, and share. Be inspired and inspire!
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Coping with Loss

Coping with Loss

Losing someone we love is likely the most painful and difficult experience we face. Of course there are no easy answers but there are a few things that we can do to support the person who is grieving, even...
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Cruises 101: Make Sure You’re Not All At Sea

Cruises 101: Make Sure You’re Not All At Sea

First time on a cruise? Here’s all you need to know. 1. Budget Determining your budget is an essential first step when planning a cruise because cruise holidays vary greatly in price. If you’re on a budget, consider a re-positioning cruise, or a...
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The Financial Woes of the Sandwich Generation

The Financial Woes of the Sandwich Generation

Ten years ago, when my parents were still alive and my children were in high school and college, my husband and I contributed financially and emotionally to the care of my aging parents. Now, we are assisting our college...
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Beyond the Empty Nest

Beyond the Empty Nest

One day, we wake up and find ourselves alone. Suddenly we are empty nesters. It was easy to laugh and joke about it as we anticipated this moment. We couldn’t wait “to do our own thing”, “have the house...
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Happy Holidays from Aging Abundantly

Happy Holidays from Aging Abundantly

Dear Friends, The real meaning of this holiday season, at least for me, can be found in the joy and laughter of young children.  In their faces we can see the purity of hope, untarnished by life’s eventualities. Their...
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RECOMMENDED READING

Recommended Audio Series for the Midlife Woman in Transition

Recommended Audio Series for the Midlife Woman in Transition

CLARISSA PINKOLA ESTES, PhD The following selection of audio books are among the most powerful that I have found that speak to the heart of the midlife woman in transition. I own each one and have listened to them numerous times throughout the last several years. Dr. E as she is affectionately called by her students...

My New Favorite Blogs

My New Favorite Blogs

“ When it’s time to suffer, you should suffer; when it’s time to cry, you should cry. Cry completely. Cry until there are no more tears and then recognize in your exhaustion that you’re alive. The sun still rises and sets.  The seasons come and go. Absolutely nothing remains the same and that includes...

The Money Code – Improve Your Entire Financial Life Right Now by John Duran

The Money Code – Improve Your Entire Financial Life Right Now by John Duran

Women of our generation have been struggling to find their “fiscal identity” for a long time. Launched into the job market at an early age, we carried the baggage of the benevolent caregiver we inherited from previous generations. Twenty and thirty years later, we still sometimes  find ourselves feeling uncomfortable with money and accurately...

Health & Wellness

Protect Your Eyes from the Summer Sun Protect Your Eyes from the Summer Sun

As a member of Vibrant Nation’s Vibrant Influencer Network, I recently was invited to...

Do You Buy Over the Counter Reading Glasses? Do You Buy Over the Counter Reading Glasses?

I don’t know about you but I go through reading glasses like they were….chocolate?!...

STRESS * BURN OUT * COMPASSION FATIGUE * ADRENAL FATIGUE * STRESS * BURN OUT * COMPASSION FATIGUE * ADRENAL FATIGUE *

Have you ever felt exhausted for a day or more after a stressful event?...

Flu Prevention Tips for Seniors Flu Prevention Tips for Seniors

Flu season has come early this year according to the Centers for Disease Control...