Feisty Side of Fifty/Baby Boomer Women

Women over fifty know the truth: rather than being on the dark and depressing downhill of life, the majority of us are opening up to new experiences and challenging ourselves like never before! Moreover, this happy fact is especially true for baby boomer women. Our generation, blessed in so many ways, can add another huge [...]

March 12th, 2010 | Tags: aging, baby boomer, baby boomer blog, baby boomer blogs, baby boomer generation, baby boomer women, baby boomers, boomer, boomers, empty nest, Feisty Side of Fifty Radio, Hot Flashbacks Cool Insights, inspiration, Land the Job You Love!, Mary Eileen Williams, mature women, mature women over 50, mature women over fifty, midlife, older women, over 40, over 50, over 50 women, over fifty women, Perimenopause Blog, senior, sharing stories, women 50+, women fifty plus, women over 40, women over 50, women over fifty, women over fifty blogs | Category: Aging With Attitude | Comments (2)

Women over fifty experience significant change in their lives, not the least of which is seeing beloved children leave the nest and head out to pursue goals and dreams of their own. In my last post, I suggested that recently displaced mothers “feather their nests” with new interests and linked to my  TV appearance where [...]

November 19th, 2008 | Tags: aging, attitude, baby boomer women, boomer generation, empty nest, fifty plus, inspiration, mature women, menopause, midlife, older women, sharing stories, women over 50, women over fifty | Category: Inspiring Each Other | Comments (1)

One of the most difficult transitions women face is the double blockbuster hit of going through the hormonal havoc of peri-menopause at the same time their nest is emptying. It seems that at the very stage your children are rebelling and leaving you, both emotionally and physically, your very own body is rebelling and leaving [...]

November 14th, 2008 | Tags: aging, attitude, baby boomer women, boomer generation, empty nest, fifty plus, healthy aging, mature women, menopause, midlife, older women, peri menopause, senior, View From the Bay, wisdom, women over 50, women over fifty | Category: Menopause | Comments (10)

In her book about women’s second adulthood, Inventing the Rest of Our Lives, Suzanne Braun Levine provides us with some exiting data concerning the aging brain. Dr. Francine Benes, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, has discovered that there is a growth spurt that takes place in the human brain around the age of [...]

June 28th, 2008 | Tags: 1960’s hippies, 50+, 60s hippies, aging, aging process, aging with grace, anti aging, attitude, baby boomer, baby boomer generation, baby boomer woman, baby boomer women, baby boomer women over 50, baby boomer women over fifty, baby boomers, body, body image, book, boomer, boomers, career, career development, career transition, careers after 50, connect, counterculture, creative, early menopause, Eileen Williams, emotion, empty nest, empty nesters, encourage, female forums, feminist, feminist history, feminist movement, feminists, Fifties, fifty plus, first-wave boomers, forum for women, forums for women, friends, fun, generation, goal, goal attainment, goal setting, groovy, health, healthy aging, hippie, hippie chick, hippie culture, hippies, hippies in the sixties, hippy, humor, inspiration, invitation, lifelong learning, M. Eileen Williams, making goals, marriage, Mary Eileen Williams, mature resources, mature women, maturity, menopausal symptoms, menopause, midlife, midlife crisis, midlife transition, old broad, older women, over fifty, peri menopause, post-menopausal, post-menopause, psychedelic, reaching your goals, retirement, retirement planning, senior discount, senior services, seniors, Seventies, share, signs of menopause, Sixties, speak, story, support, symptoms of menopause, the 50's, the 60's, tips for baby boomer women, turning fifty, voice, wisdom, women, women over 50, women over fifty, write, writer | Category: Of Mind and Matter | Comments (6)