Kickstart Your Digestive Health with Fiber
When all else seems too daunting, simply adding dietary fiber into your daily diet may improve the function of your gastrointestinal system, your immune system and aid in the prevention and onset of diseases like diabetes, heart disease…
Read MoreWant to Feel Steady on Your Feet Everyday? Discover These 3 Tips for Walking Well
For the last 60 or 70 years, you never gave walking a second thought; you just got on with it. Now you find yourself having to concentrate when you are walking. You are paying attention and trying hard to stay steady. Instead of enjoying your surroundings…
Read MoreThe Benefit of Seeing What You Can Achieve at Your Age
In May, I was fortunate to compete in the National Senior Games, a multi-event held for competition for athletes 50 years of age and older. This year, the youngest competitor was age 50 and the oldest competitor was age 103…
Read MoreHow to Stop Your Guest Room from Becoming a Source of Clutter Creep
It’s lovely to have a guest room in your home, but it can easily turn into yet another place to store things you rarely or never use. What gets stored in guest rooms? In this category fall clothes and shoes you haven’t worn in years…
Read MoreWhy Rebounding Is the Perfect Exercise in Tough Times
As a psychotherapist of 30 years, I’ve accumulated a toolbox of mood boosters and self-care skills that are tried and true. And they have come in handy since the pandemic started! My general philosophy, both clinically and in life…
Read MoreHow to Maintain an Active Lifestyle if You Have Knee Arthritis?
The use of medications in the treatment of arthritis has been the treatment recommendation along with recommendation for increasing or maintaining activity. Unfortunately, many remain under the belief that exercise therapy…
Read MoreHow to Reduce the Clutter in Your Handbag
Do you carry a handbag? What’s in yours? Do you know? Are we all carrying too much in our bags? As a light traveller, I extend my Planepack light travel principles to other aspects of my life…
Read MoreHow Our Perception of Time Changes as We Get Older
“When will Mommy come, Grandma?” my granddaughter used to ask several times a day when she was little. At first, I assumed she missed her mother. I’m sure that was true some of the time, but usually she didn’t seem sad…
Read MoreNeed Balance in Your Life? Check Your Wellness Wheel!
To draw your wellness wheel start with six pages, each having one dimension at the top and a vertical line down the middle with Deposits on one side and Withdrawals on the other. Using the brief overviews below, list “deposits” supporting well-being…
Read MoreHave Osteoporosis? Strengthen Your Bones with These Exercises
Maintaining healthy bones is a lifelong endeavor, and it’s never too early or late to get started. When it comes to dealing with osteoporosis or osteopenia, keep this simple mantra in mind: Move more, not less…
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