This is #3 in the blog series Learn to Make Peace with Your Aging Body. Due to some reactions I wanted to clear up some misconceptions here. You can catch part 1 here, and part 2 here. Whenever I use the word “Crone” in conversations with women over 50, I get blow back. Women my age…… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Ageless Living
Make Peace with Your Aging Body, Part 2
My post from a few weeks ago, Learn to Make Peace with Your Aging Body, provoked some stimulating conversation—online, in person, and in my own head. So many nuances related to this came up for me that I decided to turn create a blog series on this topic. If you missed the original post, you…… Continue Reading
Learn to Make Peace with Your Aging Body
About a year ago I put on my favorite black pants (you know, the ones that look good with everything, casual or dressy) and realized they just didn’t fit the same. Too tight, pinching at the waist. I’m sure this has happened to you before—it certainly wasn’t my first go ’round with jeans getting tight.…… Continue Reading
Slow The Aging Process with This Surprising Technique
Do you find yourself often reliving the past? Maybe going back to difficult conversations, but this time coming up with clever and incisive responses? Maybe you torture yourself by constantly revisiting painful episodes, feeling unable to exorcise them from your mind? There might be a period of your life when you felt particularly successful or…… Continue Reading
Make Peace with Aging
Blog #14 in the Blog-each-weekday for a month commitment. Last year I led some workshops and presentations in Portland, Oregon and Arcata, California called Make Peace with Aging. Some of my Facebook friends were so excited about this topic, they asked how they could get in on it if they didn’t live nearby. So, last…… Continue Reading
The Art of Self Love
Here’s #12 in my ‘Blog a Day’ commitment. I’m writing a new post each weekday for a month. My daughters grew up the the self esteem generation. It’s almost a little comical. I remember my youngest’s 8th grade graduation. About 80 kids were graduating that day, we sat through the speeches, and I proudly cheered when…… Continue Reading
Thrive At Any Age: Commitment and Service
Here we go with Blog #8 in my one-month commitment to a blog post every weekday! Last night I got to watch a beautiful film, as part of the Guanajuato International Film Festival. It moved me deeply—yet, I was disturbed by one of the key themes. Titled, El Patio de Mi Casa (translation: There’s No Place…… Continue Reading
Oh The Stories We Tell
This is Blog #7 in my one-month commitment to a writing a new blog post every weekday! “Learn Spanish” has been on my list for years now… but all those other To-Do’s crowded it right off the page. Now that I’m living in the central highlands of Mexico, this desire has risen way up on my list! I…… Continue Reading
Do You Believe You’re Beautiful?
Hi Beautiful, Yes, you! So much more beautiful than you realize. I’ve always addressed my daughters this way, I’ll often say “Hi, Gorgeous” or “Hi, Beautiful” (which of course they are!) And I was struck several years ago when a friend overheard me and said, “I wish my Mom had just once talked to me…… Continue Reading
Pivot To An Ageless State of Mind
The following is Blog #3 in my 30-day commitment to a writing a new blog post every weekday! Yesterday I wrote about how easily I drop my self care and alignment routines when life gets a bit crazy. And then last night I had a huge AHA about how this alignment thing ties into living…… Continue Reading