Society has a habit of understating the achievements of older adults. This is especially true for women over 60, who have to contend with the combined forces of ageism and sexism…

Some years ago, I was living in an old cottage, on a farm in France. One day, driving back from the boulangerie, I spotted a tiny bird in the lane, just by my house. I stopped the car and, using a towel, picked it up and placed it gently in the hedgerow. The following morning, I heard a strange noise at my front door, and when I opened it…

Anger is natural, but when it builds up in us, it can be incapacitating, causing us to lash out at others, or lash out at ourselves and lead to depression. When anger threatens to overwhelm your day, here’s a way you can shift your mood…

Have you ever tried to make positive changes to your lifestyle, only to give up because your thoughts convinced you that the lifestyle you desire will never happen? Do you find yourself regularly distracted from your dreams and desires as your focus is redirected to external events and/or demands of other people?

As we move through mid-life and beyond, we often experience a mix of freedom, grief, transition, and unexpected emotional shifts. In the wake of all this change, our prior daily life may not feel like it fits quite as well as it used to. We may also have the first opportunity for self-reflection we have had in years. We may wonder at the person we currently are and why or how we became that person…

Getting older was something that I always heard the women in my family talk about. They discussed how awful the “change” was and said that life would never be the same again. It was always a very sad and disappointing topic. As I got older, I began to dread what would occur when I reached that stage in my life…

By the time we reach our 60s and beyond, we’ve lived many lifetimes within one life. We’ve loved, built careers, raised families, created identities and, inevitably, we’ve also experienced loss. Some losses are visible: the death of a loved one, the end of a marriage, a career shift…

I never thought that I would look forward to being 60 and yet as my 60th birthday drew closer, I felt an excitement that surprised me and took hold of me. I can’t fully explain it, but it was a sense of fully stepping into the woman that I was becoming…

On some level, we all want to experience positive changes to our lifestyles. While I’m sure you are clear on what improvements you would like to see, the question is: What obstacles are keeping you from living your dream lifestyle? In my personal experience…

Like many women our age, for decades, I’d given everything I had to my family: raising children, helping to raise grandchildren, attending to countless medical issues facing both my aging parents, and supporting my husband through his long and stressful career.