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Joan Moran is an author, speaker, blogger for Sixty and Me, American Film Institute Fellow, and former Hollywood screenwriter. She holds master's degrees in Theater and Education, taught acting and theater history at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, and is the founder of the Meadows Playhouse, Las Vegas' first year-round theater. She is the author of seven books, including Suddenly Jewish: The Life and Times of My Jewish Mother, and Up From Hell, a Texas crime trilogy. Joan is based in Austin, Texas.

Latest Posts By Joan Frances Moran

4 years ago

Are You Feeling Older Than You Really Are?

Is your age showing? Are you anxious that you are acting older than you are, or feeling older than you are, or are becoming irrelevant or invisible? Please, relax. You are only showing your age if you buy into the clichés…

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4 years ago

5 Ways to Create Lasting Positive Change in Your Life After 60

What is your usual go-to attitude when something adverse happens to you? How do you respond when it’s time to make difficult changes in your life, when it’s time to forgive a friend, or when it’s time to take responsibility for a mess you didn’t create?

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4 years ago

5 Reflections on Speaking Your Truth

Speaking your truth will surely piss some people off and that’s a good thing. It’s time now, in your boomer years, to live your life the way you want to – the way you feel – yet always, of course, with reason and kindness…

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4 years ago

Boomer Travel: Getting Along with Your Travel Partner

Boomers spend decades working toward retirement and an easier and freer life. Travel for Boomers has always been a ubiquitous rite of passage for their future. Yet, when you arrive at this most important part of your life, the ability to see the world…

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4 years ago

19 Lessons Your Conscious Mind Can Teach You Every Day: Are You Up to Learn?

Today is everyday, and everyday is an opportunity to learn something fabulous about who You Are. Maybe it’s just a human thing, but I think we spend too much time seeking help from outside resources to find happiness and fulfillment…

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5 years ago

5 Mistakes Boomer Women Often Make on the Road to Happiness – and 3 Things You Can Do Instead

Before I made an intentional decision at the beginning of this year to wake up every day with joy, I thought about mistakes that women make on the road to happiness. I began to draw a considerable list of no-nos – thinking patterns that produce adverse…

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5 years ago

An Ode to Women Over 60: Lean Into the Equality You Deserve

Women are amazing creations! We have been mythologized, idealized, idolized, lionized, patronized, held up as paragons of virtues, and painted as fallen angels. That’s why I love being a woman and adore feeling the feminine…

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5 years ago

The Power of Mental Stretching at 60 and Beyond

Can we really stretch our mind during our 60s and beyond so that we can achieve even more out of life? The answer is: Yes. Absolutely! Mind stretching is the process of teaching the brain a new way of thinking, and in doing so…

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6 years ago

5 Ways to Dramatically Reduce Stress and Find Balance in Life After 60

I’ve spent a lifetime aging. And, if you are part of the boomer generation, you know what I mean.

Sometimes the decades go by and you wake up and you’re 64! How did that happen? Where did the time go? Read More

6 years ago

3 Key Mindsets to Help You Move Toward the End of the Pandemic

As you try to maintain the collective sanity during this maybe-last-first phase of the coronavirus, you can be sure the pandemic is wearing on everyone…

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