So recently, I asked my Middle Girls on social media what were some of their top frustrations with being over 50+. The number one concern was that they had not saved enough money for retirement, or even none at all. Or, they don’t have money to live in retirement with their financial future set in […]

Body Positivity is Important for Older Women Too… A Quick Story You Can Probably Relate To… Today, someone I barely know wanted to ask a question… They asked me if the size of my tummy was just from having kids? Is that normal? Trust me, any body positivity I had at that moment went straight […]

Are you a woman over 50 feeling lost and unsure of what’s next? Not exactly a woman in a midlife crisis, but more an existential quandary? Wondering how to reinvent yourself at 50+, but not sure how to do it… or if you even should? After spending most of your adult life in “doing” mode, […]

If you are a women over 50, chances are you were raised with certain societal expectations for, and about, women. And chances are good, that programming goes very deep.

Today, I feel fat. And flabby. And ugly.  Yes, I know, I’m teaching confidence, and positive body image, beauty is in who we are. Success on our terms. And, I really believe that. Truly, I do. But…

I feel like so many of us struggle, especially now with the world as it is, with things unsaid, things unshared, and things unacknowledged. We don’t talk about what is hurting us…

We all want to travel when we reach middle age, right? Vacation mode, 365? We dream of lounging at an outdoor cafe in Paris with a book and a glass of wine…

Menopause and autoimmune disease can often go hand in hand. Fatigue, invisible illness, chronic pain and many other symptoms get blamed (sometimes falsely) on midlife.

After 50, I felt… a little empty. I felt…over. I mean, I knew intellectually that wasn’t true, but it’s still how I felt. I wanted it all to mean something.

One of the big problems you may have when getting email might be that Google and the other “powers that be” try to think for us. Now, many times that’s helpful. They filter out scams, frauds, and trashy offensive emails. Well, at least most of the time, lol… But the other side of that is […]