Restoring Your Inner Drive After 60: Letting Meaning Lead the Way
When I was in my 20s and 30s, I knew exactly what I wanted and where I desired to go. However, as I approached my 40s and 50s, I began to have less clarity until I entered my 60th year where all of a sudden it felt as if a light had been switched on again…
Read MoreYou Can Reduce Stress and Enhance Purpose in 2026
When did you last think about what you value most in life? Research shows that recognizing and living according to your values creates a richer sense of purpose. Also, it turns out that one of the best ways to significantly reduce stress is to spend time defining and aligning…
Read MoreLessons from my 16-Year-Old Self: Reclaiming Freedom in our 60s
A few weeks ago, I was having lunch with a dear friend who remarked that she couldn’t believe her 16-year-old granddaughter had gotten her driver’s license. That comment led to a whole conversation about who we were at 16, back when we were dancing…
Read MoreFood Freedom at Any Age: Breaking the Diet Cycle After Decades of Restriction
Food freedom is not about eating whatever you want whenever you want. It is about healing the relationship you have with food so you can stop fighting your body and start listening to it. At any age, but especially now…
Read MoreRecognizing Your True Worth Is a Key to Happiness at Any Age
It’s your choice how you present yourself to the world. The way you show up is the way the world sees you – and this becomes the way you see yourself. This perception has everything to do with what you will create today and for the future…
Read MoreHow to Make Friends with Mother Time by Using These 5 Time Management Hacks
Why is it that time seems to fly now that we’re 60 or 70 or 80? I’m often amazed when a wedding, the death of friend or a move to a new city was 20 or 30 years ago. Heavens, it’s already 2024! What happened to 2023?
Read MoreWhat Do You Do When You Want to Downsize – But Your Spouse Doesn’t?
As an interior designer for the past 35 years, I have had the opportunity to help baby boomers design their first, second and even third homes, their beach houses, mountain retreats, and country cottages…
Read MoreNow is the Perfect Time to Tell the Story of Your Life
When I became a hospice volunteer, I imagined – considering my background as a reporter and writer – that I might be able to help people who wanted to write or record their life stories. I thought it would help people make sense…
Read MoreLetter Writing Rediscovered: A Book Review of The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
I inherited a stack of exquisitely written love letters that my mother had received from her paramour in the South Pacific in WWII. The pages are neat and the care in each swirl of an S or loop of a Y is evidence that love had been injected into every letter…
Read MoreThe Permission You’ve Been Waiting For: Stop Managing Everyone Else’s Emotions
I’m sitting in my therapist’s office, crying into a tissue that’s basically disintegrated, and he asks me a question that stops me cold: “Whose anxiety are you actually managing right now?” I start to…
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