Holiday Stress-Busting Tips for Women 50+: Unwind and Enjoy!

Hey there, fabulous ladies in your 50s and beyond! The holiday craze is knocking on our doors, and let’s face it – it can get a bit overwhelming. But fear not, because we’ve got some super laid-back holiday stress-busting tips to help you breeze through the holidays with your sanity intact and a big ol’ […]

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Finding Purpose in Life After 50 +: It’s Your Time to Shine! Hello, wonderful woman in the prime of your life! Today, we’re diving into a subject near and dear to my heart: the pursuit of passion, even when you’ve reached the midpoint+ point of your life’s journey. And guess what? It’s entirely possible, and […]

Finding Purpose in Life After 50 +

Purpose

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, that they no money to live in retirement with their financial future set in […]

Retirement for Women – How to Ensure Your Financial Future, Even if You’re Over 50 and Never Saved a Dime…

Financial

Body Positivity in Older Women

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 […]

Body Positivity is Important for Older Women Too… Right?

Style + Beauty

Confidence and self esteem for older women

I talk a lot about the fact that women over 50 are from generations where we were taught to have low confidence and poor self esteem. That’s right girls, it isn’t your fault. Society taught us older women all the things we needed to know to have significant issues with our self love when we […]

Confidence and Self Esteem for Older Women – How to Boost Both

Self Care

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? Looking for a way 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 […]

How to Reinvent Yourself At 50+ – Choosing Something New

Self Care

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.

How Society Damaged Me (And Probably You Too!

Self Care

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…

Do You Feel Fat? The Big Lie – Self Care for Women Over 50

Style + Beauty

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 Need to Have a Conversation About Women’s Mental Health Over 50…

Self Care

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…

Vacation Mode: Travel Time Outs

Travel