How to Find Acceptance in Friends and Family When Deciding to Downsize
As someone working with people in transition, I meet a lot of interesting women. Amanda is one of them. A wonderful, professional woman approaching 60, Amanda had her mind made up. After spending several months carefully considering…
Read MoreDitch the Diet Mentality to Lose the Weight
Years ago, a client I’ll call Susan “confessed” to me that she’d eaten a bag of potato chips the night before her visit with me. She felt guilty and ashamed about blowing her diet which then spiraled into her feeling like a failure who could never lose weight, which led her down…
Read MoreHow to Future Proof Your Garden for Later Life
For many of us, a garden is like our own personal sanctuary. A place we can relax, reflect and reminisce. Pottering around in the garden not only aids our mental health, but our physical health, too. However, there may come a time when taking care of a garden can become…
Read MoreFrom Pop Rocks to Butterscotch – Benefits and Considerations for a Platonic Romance
Remember your 20s? Lots of fun, but lots of turbulence too, right? Especially in the romance department. Love and relationships in your 20s were often like having a mouth full of Pop Rocks. There was anticipation – “Will I like this or hate it?”
Read MoreAnxious Much? The Antidote May Not Be What You Expect
Anxiety is a word that very easily and perhaps too often incorrectly falls trippingly off the tongue. For example, you may hear someone say that getting their hair cut gives them anxiety. It may, or perhaps they’re merely nervous. MichiganMedicine.org says that feeling nervous…
Read MoreHow to Find Joy and Stay Resilient When the World Feels Heavy
It’s been a tough several years for many. At a global level, we battled a pandemic and now face senseless wars, political division, climate change, forest fires, heartbreaking headlines, and on and on. On an individual level, life is full of challenges for each of us. It would be really easy…
Read MoreWalking Well: How to Avoid Tripping on Uneven Ground or Broken Paving (VIDEO)
You probably learnt to walk 60 or 70 years ago and haven’t given it much thought since. It’s just something we do every day! So, thinking about how you walk is strange, and the idea of practising walking will seem quite odd. However, if you don’t feel…
Read MoreA Reluctant Traveler Passing Through the Stages of Retirement
Retirement planners have coined the clever terms Go-Go, Slow-Go, and No-Go to describe the three distinct stages of financial planning which ease the burdens of growing older. Equally, if not more significant, these phrases succinctly describe…
Read MoreAre You Suffering from Negativitis?
We all complain now and then. It’s human nature. But it’s a slippery slope and the more we complain, the worse it gets. When it gets out of control and becomes a habit, we’ve contracted that insidious disease known as negativitis. Inflammation of negative thinking…
Read MoreThe Light Doctor: My Lupus Story and How Sunlight Helped Me
The expert on light, Dr. Martin Moore-Ede has written a book called, The Light Doctor: Using Light to Boost Health, Improve Sleep and Live Longer. Dr. Moore-Ede received his medical degree from Guy’s Hospital Medical School and his PhD in physiology from the University of London…
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