Empowerment

Heading back to school as a woman over 60 is both an exciting and daunting prospect. Whether you’re pursuing a new career, finishing a degree, or simply looking to expand your knowledge, this journey comes with its own set of challenges and rewards…

I was completely unprepared for my caregiving journey and set out on choppy waters because I was determined to care for my parents. Caregiving is a complex combination of challenging, frightening, rewarding and surprising…

One of the hallmarks of women “of a certain age” is a great need for autonomy. After a lifetime of catering to others’ needs in the realms of family and work, some women would fight to the death to preserve their autonomy when those yokes are removed…

A friend of mine recently exclaimed, “Goodness, you are amazing, taking on more work when most people I know are looking at doing less!” Her comments stopped me in my tracks. I hadn’t thought of the new project that I had taken on as work…

You would think by the time we reached 60 we would have it all figured out. There wouldn’t be a single thing that fazed us or we thought we couldn’t handle. We have experienced so much, made thousands of decisions, some good, some not so good…

Sometimes it’s hard to muster up fortitude to achieve a goal. Of course, lifestyle choices like eating nutritious meals and committing to a daily exercise routine can provide the energy needed to function on a daily basis. But these positive resolutions…

Have you experienced a time in life when you felt lonely, unloved or undervalued? If so, you are not alone. All of us have felt this way at one time or another. Like millions of women from our era, I didn’t always love who I was. Despite the success…

I don’t know about you, but I always enjoy visiting the local cafe for coffee and indulging in people-watching. It’s fascinating to observe how people interact with their surroundings. Everyone moves differently, whether it’s a shop assistant, a doorman…

Self-confidence is all about believing in yourself and your abilities. It is a type of useful knowledge about yourself, usually based on experience. Self-confidence is that general positive feeling about yourself that can involve several components…

How do we learn to love ourselves after 60 if we were not taught about self-love early on in life? Because of how we were raised, educated, and trained for adulthood conformity, we relied on the beliefs, rules, and guidance of authority figures to make sense of life…