Archive for the ‘Body Image and Health’ Category

When You Wake Up

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

If you’re at midlife, or if you’re facing seemingly-catastrophic loss, if you’re feeling lost, purposeless, directionless and completely bereft of any semblance of spirituality, rejoice! Your spiritual awakening is here!

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The Sexy Sexagenarian

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

The ‘Grandma’ and ‘Grandpa’ images from the last century are gone for good. In their place, we’re discovering that we ‘Boomers can become vibrant, ‘sexy sexagenarians,’ taking the intimacy and passion we experience in our relationships to levels we might never have expected. The recipe for relationship success during (and after) midlife is surprisingly simple.

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Why Are You Doing This to Me?

Sunday, February 28th, 2010

So long as we’re stuck in the ‘me-centered’ universe of adulthood, challenges and adversity will continue to appear to us to be focused on us (because that’s where our unconscious focus lies, and that’s the perspective from which we view everything that happens around us).

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Reinventing Yourself (or, Learning How to Fly)

Sunday, February 21st, 2010

You may still think that, when circumstances change drastically (like they do at midlife), reinventing yourself would seem to be a very wise thing to do. I say ‘seem to be’ because that’s all based on your set of assumptions. You assume that it’s possible to ‘reinvent’ yourself, and you further assume that you know how to do it.

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You’re Part of a Massive Cover-up!

Monday, November 30th, 2009

In most cultures like ours, the show of emotion can be taken by others as well as ourselves as a sign of weakness or being out of control. For many reasons, emotions are suspect, and therefore uncomfortable. Rather than identify them, face them and express them openly, we find it easier to medicate them whenever possible.

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