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Don't Be Afraid To Say "No" habits redefining after 50 self-care Sep 26, 2022

This past spring, I was juggling a lot.

We women in this community juggle a lot every day, but it was one of those times where several major things were thrown at Chris and I...

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I Can't Find the Time... redefining after 50 self-care May 17, 2022

This is something that I hear every single day from women in this community.  Truth be told, I've even been known to utter the phrase myself.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say...

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Moving Forward With Your Redefinition Goals After "Life Happens" redefining after 50 self-care Mar 30, 2022

Life was going along great!  I had found as much of a stride and balance as I possibly could between my various roles which included:

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Lessons Learned as we Lose Loved Ones on The Right Side of 50 self-care Feb 05, 2022

 

A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine who was only 48 years old, woke with a blood clot in her leg.    She died two weeks later.

She was young, vibrant, active and seemingly...

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Grieving the Roles You Leave Behind as you Redefine after 50 redefining after 50 self-care Nov 10, 2021

As we start to think about redefining after 50, we typically think about what it is we WANT to do moving forward, rather than what we might be leaving behind as we move forward. And this makes...

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Reflection At the End of 2020 – Random Thoughts and Impressions self-care Dec 22, 2020

I’ve been thinking a lot about what I’d like to say in this post as we round out 2020 and move forward into 2021. I’m reflecting on the year in my world and wow. It’s really...

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Maybe My Redefinition After 50 Means Simply Creating a New Good Habit? redefining after 50 self-care Dec 14, 2020

I’ve been posting quite a bit on Life Balance After 50 on the topic of women redefining after age 50. And it’s often involved major redefinitions.

We’ve met women who moved to...

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Redefining after 50 Isn't Always About Work redefining after 50 self-care Nov 06, 2020

As I drove home in February from moving my mom to be closer to us, I listened to an audible book called “Do It Scared” and it got me thinking. I’d always put my family first and...

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Songs That Make You Sing and Dance No Matter Your Mood self-care Oct 18, 2020

I was driving home from a week long visit with my son and his family and feeling kind of blah. It’s October and we continue to be in the middle of a global pandemic. I had been looking...

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We’re Allowed Our “Things” – Our Guilty Pleasures self-care Oct 04, 2020

We all have our “thing” that we do that seems to defy our outward persona. Others might look at us funny when they learn of it, but we simply respond with a smile and something down the...

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HOW MY RELATIONSHIPS HAVE CHANGED DURING THE PANDEMIC family self-care the grands Sep 05, 2020

I woke up that fateful day in March to a panicked group of parents and co-workers. I work with kids on the autism spectrum and at 4 o’clock that morning, our county schools suddenly made the...

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