Helping Our Adult Children Make It in This Changing World
I’m going to start with a simple question: “Is the world changing?” Yes, it is, especially when it comes to family. Family was an intricate part of our lives up until the early 1970s. The years beyond the 1970s took us from the “nuclear family” structure into diverse paradigms…
Read More8 Thoughtful Ideas to Help You Keep a Strong Relationship with Your Grandchildren
But it’s not always easy to know how to ensure that your relationship with your grandchildren stays strong. That’s why I have put together this guide that will help you maintain a great relationship with the little ones in your family…
Read MoreHow I Learned to Care Without Carrying: A Path to Sustainable Giving for Women Over 60
For a long time, I believed that caring deeply meant absorbing other people’s pain. I thought being a compassionate person required emotional sacrifice. Staying up late worrying, saying yes when I needed to say no, and feeling responsible for everyone else’s healing…
Read MoreHow to Divorce Your Adult Children and Restore Your Sanity
I am known for exposing the “elephant in the living room.” Those things everybody knows but nobody is talking about. Not every mother-daughter relationship reads like a Hallmark card, and our culture makes that a shameful secret to bear…
Read MoreWhat Does It Really Mean to Achieve Optimal Health?
If you’re a woman over 50, you might secretly believe that “optimal health” just isn’t available to you. Maybe that ship sailed in your 30s – before the knee pain, the hot flashes, the extra weight that doesn’t budge, or the prescriptions that now fill your bathroom medicine cabinet…
Read MoreHow Teaching French Taught Me More About Confidence Than Any Self-Help Book
Apparently, we’re more afraid of public speaking than we are of death. It’s absurd when you think about it – but fear has never been rational. It slips under the door, whispering warnings that keep us small. Whatever our age or achievements, it still has the power to press pause on our potential…
Read MoreThe Vanishing Serendipity of Retail Shopping
A timeline of retail shopping in America and abroad is an excellent vehicle for women of our cohort to chart their personal histories. Coming of age when individually owned shops prevailed, entering our prime during the age of the shopping mall, moving forward…
Read MoreHave You Had “The Talk” with Your Adult Children?
If we haven’t already, we need to make sure we’ve had “the talk” with our children by the time we reach retirement. This does not refer to the infamous sex talk we have with our children during their pre-teen stage, but about our end-of-life…
Read MoreAlpine Mountain Towns to Explore Before the End of 2025
We are only three months away from the end of the year, making this an excellent time for some magical getaways. For an unforgettable late-year adventure, there is no better place than the Alps. The Alps are not just majestic snow-capped peaks – they are a timeless escape…
Read MoreHow to Let Go of Responsibility for Your Adult Child’s Choices
By the time we reached our 50s and 60s, most of us thought the hardest years of parenting were behind us. The toddler tantrums, the teenage battles, the sleepless nights – we survived them all. We figured the hard part was done. We thought we had “earned” the rest. But then adulthood…
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