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My Top Health and Wellness Products – Living Life After 50

My Top Health and Wellness Products I’ve always been drawn to organic and holistic natural living products – all the way back to my teenage years – when these types of methods and products were not as mainstream as today. Before ever walking into a natural market, I remember making sugar and honey facial scrubs and using lemon juice to whiten my nails, drinking chamomile for stomachaches and soaking in Epsom salt baths. Maybe it’s a part of my overall growing need to discard as many toxic harmful products (and…

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Caring for Kids and Parents – Learning to Protect Your Own Energy

Caring for Kids and Parents… Learning to Protect Your Own Energy in the Midlife Vise It’s called midlife – the middle years – when we are considered to be middle-aged. Not very accurate when we consider life expectancy, but it’s still the term used to bunch those of us over forty and beyond together. I think defining midlife as being the period of time that we are caught in the middle is far more accurate. There we are, smack dab in the middle between the busy-busy first few decades of…

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Making New Friends In Your 50’s – Why You Should and How to Do So

Rekindling Old, and Making New, Friends in Your 50s Never doubt that having good friends continues to be important as we get older. In fact, I think midlife is a time when having real friends is more crucial than ever. I say real friends because this is definitively the time for quality over quantity. Having friends, even just one, who see you and hear you, and for whom you do the same, is incredibly grounding, comforting and vital. “Spending time with positive, loving friends you care about and trust can…

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Emotional Self Care Strategies – Learn to Give to Yourself

Emotional Self-Care Strategies – Stop Giving to Everyone Else But Yourself Learn to Take Better Care of Yourself Starting with 300 Seconds a Day Are you on your daily to-do list? We go through our days from morning until evening making it all happen. Our normal routine seems to be to complete as many tasks in a day as we humanly can. From the second the alarm clock sounds to the moment we collapse on our pillow at night. Every day, we get ourselves pulled together and we move along…

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Are You Empathetic to a Fault?

Empathetic to a Fault? Learn How to Empathize Without Absorbing Did you ever notice that you can be in the absolute best mood and then someone comes around you who is in a cranky mood and it instantly drags you down? I call this the lowest common mood denominator (LCMD) effect. It’s killer. It has taken me precisely 54.5 years to realize to what extent this affects me – and I have a feeling I’m not the only one. What’s so important about this revelation is it gives us the…

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Setting Small Goals to Achieve Big Ones – Keep It Simple for Success

Setting Small Goals to Achieve Big Ones Keep it simple and set yourself up for success January is a time when many of us make resolutions and set goals. That’s all well and good. A big picture with big goals – a vision for where we want to be in one year, five years or maybe even ten. But often big goals are challenging and moving toward those goals requires successfully achieving smaller goals along the way. This is where many of us fall short, and some of us give…

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