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As you navigate through the midlife passage, or any life transition, you pick up another job – albeit it unintentionally. If you already have a full-time job, or full-time work as a Mom, you’ll require additional stores of energy and support. But how do you find these reserves in the midst of new [...]
CSPAN Books is my companion of choice for weekend chores, because its featured authors highjack my mind while I’m paying bills, loading the dishwasher, or folding laundry. Last weekend, Joshua Carter Ramo, author of The Age of the Unthinkable made the heist.
I don’t know about you, but roller coaster rides have never been a favored pastime of mine. I managed to avoid them until college, when to impress a date, I said, “yes” to his invitation for a ride on one. By the third down slide, words came out of my mouth that I had [...]
For a moment, call to mind something that truly bugs you. It’s an odd request, I know, but bear with me. See if you can find two things that are guaranteed to annoy you. They can be huge (the fact there are hungry people in the world), or seemingly small (someone zipped in [...]
“Out with the old, in with the new” is a common mantra for this time of year. And it’s perfect advice at midlife when you find yourself stuck between a past that no longer works and a future you cannot envision.
Last night as I was leafing through some gorgeous, colored photos in this month’s [...]
Recently, greetings from my friend Abby highlighted the results of a study on happiness that seems to be cropping up everywhere. Turns out, happiness is contagious – who knew? Well, most of us. Given a choice, don’t we usually prefer hanging out with joyful and fun-loving folks? It was, however, heartening to learn [...]
Sometimes, in the midst of a midlife transition, you feel like Alice in Wonderland. You’re in a confusing place; nothing works according to customary rules and you don’t know who you are anymore. You need guidance – but from a cat with a big grin who seems to appear and disappear at will?
Well, advice can [...]
These days we are besieged with discouraging news and information – probably more than we want, or ever expected. This constant barrage may not only exacerbate realistic concerns, but can also activate pessimistic thoughts already lurking in the recesses of our subconscious minds.
“As you think, so you become,” reads one Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) axiom. [...]
When you are trying out a new identity at midlife, you will undoubtedly explore different paths, make plans and set goals for yourself. But an often overlooked component for reinventing your life is “insight” – that sudden flash of knowing that can clarify so much.
Jonah Lehrer has written a fascinating article on such epiphany [...]
I have to admit it – my favorite course in Graduate School was “The Neurophysiology of Brain and Behavior.” I was pretty much alone with this predilection, except for one woman who worked in a research lab at the local VA Hospital. Each week my classmates moaned, and even groaned, as they crowded through [...]
