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Is Suffering Optional? being present habits self-care Jun 12, 2023

Recently, I read a book called "The Road to Me" by Laura Drake.   Nellie, the grandmother in the book said, "suffering is optional."

This quote was a topic of discussion for our book...

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Book Review From the Blog: The Road To Me by Laura Drake being present self-care May 12, 2023

I love to read and my typical genre is either psychological thriller/mystery or historical fiction.   From time to time, I stumble upon a book that I feel that the women in this community...

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The Value in Being Present as We Age being present self-care Apr 12, 2023

I am writing this blog post after returning home from an amazing weekend with family as we celebrated my mom's 80th birthday.   (Although she is technically my stepmother, she and my...

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Learning to Meet Our Loved Ones Where They're At family self-care Mar 05, 2023

In my career as a behavior analyst, I had the opportunity to meet and work with many parents of children on the autism spectrum.   

I watched them as they reeled after the...

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We Must Stop Censoring Ourselves on This Side of 50! habits redefining after 50 self-care Jan 26, 2023

It has been such a pleasure and a blessing for me to be working with so many women on the right side of 50 who are trying to figure out what they want to do in this phase of life.  

Women...

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My Realization That I'm in This Phase of Life redefining after 50 right side of 50 self-care Jan 06, 2023

Earlier in December, I decided to participate in an event put on by the coach in the blogging Mastermind group I'm in. 

I would describe it as a challenge to take an intensive look...

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Managing Our Feelings Around the Holidays After 50 family self-care Nov 20, 2022

 

Throughout my life, I have been that annoying person who, the day after Halloween, starts playing Christmas music.   My tree is always up before Thanksgiving, much to the dismay of...

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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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