Ta-da! We’ve made it! 2008 was a difficult year for many of us. If you’re over fifty, you’ve likely seen a large portion of your life savings melt away and your homes drop in value just when you’d finally paid off that wretched mortgage. As boomers, this current major economic downturn was truly unexpected. Financial [...]
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 [...]
As a leading edge baby boomer woman, I’ve been facing some of the less than fabulous telltale signs of aging. In fact, my body parts seem to slipping and sliding with a vengeance and landing right around my middle. As my friend Caryn Leschen says, “Just when you’re getting it all together, your body falls [...]
As many of you know, I like to say that baby boomer women are totally transforming the spirit and style of aging… and that we are! Yesterday, I broadcast the third interview of my radio show, Feisty Side of Fifty Radio, and I asked my guest, Erica Ross-Krieger, in which ways she identified with our [...]
Did you know that a postmenopausal woman has up to twenty times the amount of testosterone per unit of estrogen than an ovulating woman? After a woman’s ovaries have essentially ceased production of estrogen, the adrenals continue to manufacture testosterone. This amazing fact means that midlife women typically become more male-like in our attitudes and [...]
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