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If you like, check out the past issues of Midlife Discovery below.
This month I have an exciting announcement — at least it is for me. My book makes its debut next month! Midlife Magic: The 7 Day Self Care Plan to Boost Your Energy and Make You Smile will give a woman stuck at the midlife crossroads that positive first step on the journey to reinvent […]
In this newsletter, I usually focus on books you might like at the beginning of summer (in the northern hemisphere) — great fiction to devour in the longer, relaxing, days of June, July and August. But today, in the midst of winter, I want to bring to your attention a nonfiction book I think is […]
Do you know January is hot tea month? Wondering why I’m calling this to your attention? Good question! I’ll answer it with another one. What happens when you sit down for a hot cup of tea? That’s right; you stop what you’re doing. And that’s a good thing. To echo an old CocaCola slogan: “it’s […]
During the pre-holiday rush, I woke up one morning to a bad start. I had overslept. I washed up quickly, dressed, grabbed a fast breakfast and hustled out the door to reach an appointment on time. Oh no! For the first time this winter, a hard layer of frost encrusted all the windows of my […]
Your to-do list is undoubtedly expanding with the upcoming holidays. Maybe you already feel flummoxed every morning about where to start with the items on that list. If you’re like a client of mine, you wonder whether you should make the bed, load the dishwasher, order holiday gifts, head for the elliptical in the basement, […]
The other day I received a gift that had me snorting with laughter: one of those NO buttons. What tickled me were the eight distinctive voices that erupted as I kept pushing the button. My favorite was an emphatic, “No! No! No!” with each NO sounding a different note. My post laughter reaction was a […]
Sometimes at midlife, your days no longer bring you enough pleasure. Perhaps your job doesn’t excite you any more, but what else can you do? Maybe your last child has left the nest and you can’t imagine how to fill the empty space. Or possibly you simply don’t find your life satisfying, but feel lost […]
The midlife journey can be a challenge — fraught with confusion and concern as you try to figure out what’s next. At times you may wonder if you’ll ever feel really great again. Happily, recent research suggests your mood will likely improve over the next 20 years. A University of Melbourne study that followed more […]
At midlife I came across a rule of life that jolted me initially and ultimately proved to be a valuable insight moving forward. It all started a number of summers ago when I spent six weeks in the mountains of Colorado attending a training program for certification as an NLP (Neurolinguistic Programming) practitioner. While it […]
Now that summer has officially arrived, I hope you’re tucked into those books that bring you so much pleasure and relaxation. At the end of this newsletter, I’ll list the summer reading suggestions I gathered from readers last month. Meanwhile, there is another kind of downtime activity I’d like to call to your attention; micro-breaks. […]