Women are more adept at recognizing worrisome symptoms and getting them checked out. It’s a fact. However, as we age it’s more difficult to tell a normal aging symptom from something we should pursue. A back twinge here, a headache there and a dodgy knee tweaking can overwhelm us and…
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What Can We Do To Ensure Our Children Don’t Have The Stress Of Looking After Us When We’re Old?
Right now the so-called sandwich generation — middle-aged parents of children who are the children of baby boomers — are struggling to care for their own kids while also looking after their aging parents. Life is a veritable ball of stress for the vast majority of the younger generation. The…
View More What Can We Do To Ensure Our Children Don’t Have The Stress Of Looking After Us When We’re Old?WHAT BELIEFS ARE DRIVING YOU?
Our beliefs shape our lives. One belief, wrongly held, can cast a shadow over one’s entire life. What do you believe? Do you know what’s driving you? Over the last decade in my work with women over fifty, I have heard said countless times, “I don’t feel that way anymore”,…
View More WHAT BELIEFS ARE DRIVING YOU?2014 Work in Progress Blog Tour
A blog tour is a great way to see what your fellow writers are up to. I was inducted (abducted, lassoed, hoodwinked, invoked, sideswiped, challenged, and above all honored) by my blogging friend and ever present source of inspiration, Laurie Buchanan, into the 2014 Work in Progress (WIP) Blog Tour.…
View More 2014 Work in Progress Blog TourEmbrace Your Child’s Heart
The midlife transformation that begins in earnest at fifty, and that many of us have already spent a decade or more navigating, is a turning point for many. The dark, confusing period of time, during which everything around us is shifting, is so disconcerting that it drives us every day,…
View More Embrace Your Child’s HeartWe Have the Key
“So often time it happens, we all live our life in chains, and we never even know we have the key.” The Eagles, Already Gone (Quote taken from Aging Abundantly’s A Little Book of Hope) Sometimes it takes a major crisis in our lives to wake us up.…
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