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My First New Year in Retirement: 5 Ways to Deal with Financial Anxiety

For most of my adult working life as a self-employed person, the end of the year meant pushing hard to try and beat the prior year revenue. This was always a challenge and often met with high anxiety as we entered the ‘holiday season’ from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Eve. Read More

How the Arts Can Reduce Anxiety and Be of Emotional Benefit to Older People

Createquity is an online think tank that helps make sense of the news and research in the arts world. Their review of the evidence that connects the arts with our emotions reveals four things:

Want to Reduce Stress in Your 60s? Here’s How to Beat Anxiety with Herbal Medicines

If you regularly feel apprehensive or panicky, or experience feelings of dread, you could have general anxiety disorder in which you worry excessively about a number of everyday problems. Read More

Tidy Up Your Home to Free Your Mind from Stress and Anxiety

Stress and anxiety are complex and have many causes. That said, while their causes are diverse, one common tread runs through both – a lack of a sense of control. When we feel out of control, we suffer.

On a practical level, we may worry about our inability to control an illness that we are facing or to manage our financial situation. We may even worry about our inability to control our own thoughts and emotions. Read More

How to Deal with Stress and Anxiety as a Woman Over 60

Most women my age, to one degree or another, are wondering how to deal with stress and anxiety. Some people, like me, even thrive with a little stress in our lives. We feel that stress, up to a certain point, makes us stronger and more alive.

Others fear stress or all kinds and do everything that they can to avoid it. What stresses you out? Do you think that there are some kinds of stress that are positive, while others are negative? Read More

Is Wine Really the Retirement Treat We Think It Is? 7 Lessons I Learnt After Quitting at 63

Towards the end of my corporate career, I used to spend quite a lot of time dreaming about my retirement. I had a very clear picture in my mind. There I was, sitting in a beautiful garden, reading a good book, with a large glass of chilled white wine beside me. No meetings. No deadlines. No demanding colleagues…

When “Mom, You Just Do It Better” Becomes a Way of Life

You host Thanksgiving every year, and probably a variety of other events. Your son, a capable man who runs a department of 40 people, always offers to bring something (because you taught him that), but calls the day before to ask what to bring and how to make it. Your husband of 38 years has never once loaded the…

You Can Fly Across the World and Still Never Leave Home

When we landed in Vietnam, the first thing my travelling companion did was change the SIM card in his phone. He did it at the airport, so that he could stay fully connected to home. I used my phone differently on that trip. It was mostly a camera. Every so often I called my daughter to check in. The rest of the time, home was not in my hand…

From Farm to Skin: 5 Herbs I Grow for Skincare

Herbs are showing up more often on cosmetic labels. While some people may think they’re simply a bit of botanical fluff, there is actual scientific and medical research supporting skin benefits from many herbs. As an herb farmer and cosmetic formulator, I’ve spent years learning how herbs can actually help the skin and how to use them in a…

What We Can Do About Aging After 60

Most of us think of aging as something that simply happens with the passing of time. Another birthday arrives, another candle goes on the cake, and we are one year older. But there’s an important distinction: our chronological age and our biological age are not necessarily the same thing…