How does one keep from “growing old inside”? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people. Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable. ~ Robert McAfee Brown Making big relocation […]

Check out last week’s post for Part 1 on this topic. You might be surprised by what people usually regret in the last weeks of their lives, according to palliative care nurse Bronnie Ware, author of The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing. The top two regrets are […]

“From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life. For in the secret hour of life’s midday, the parabola is reversed, death is born.” ~ C.G. Jung, “The Soul and Death” Most of us don’t want to think about our own death. Dying is this distant, […]

“Do not fear the aging of the body, for it is the body’s way of seeking the root.” ~ Lao-Tzu Even without being in crisis mode, our everyday fears and our fears about the future can debilitate us, keeping us from taking that next step, from listening to that visionary voice inside. But when we […]

I stood outside in the cold January 2001 air, watching flames devour my home and office. As the wooden beams and all our possessions crackled under the heat, I took a deep breath. “It’s just stuff…only stuff. Let it go.” Fires, natural disasters, layoffs, failed businesses, loss of loved ones. We all experience devastation in […]

As we age, we may also face the death of our partners. Women tend to outlive men, and being over 50 and single (newly single especially) comes with issues that simply did not exist for most people when they were single in the past. Because so many more of us are living to ripe old […]

I’m sure you’ve read about the increased divorce rate among people post-50. One study by Bowling Green State University cited it at more than double what it was twenty years ago. Last week, people across generations were shocked to learn that the 27 year-long marriage of Bill and Melinda Gates had come to an end. […]

The most pervasive and challenging obstacle for many, most especially for women, is low self-esteem. For some of us, aging provides a new perspective on what really matters, which helps us to ease up on ourselves over what doesn’t matter. We may grieve the losses of youth (and perhaps health), the empty nest, and for […]

Many of us are waiting out the aftereffects of the global Covid-19 pandemic. We’re playing it safe, not taking any risks, putting off our next big steps – the transformations we long to make in our lives and work – until the winds of global economic change die down. We’ve locked the doors, boarded up […]

Contrary to popular belief, regret is more the domain of the young. In general, as we gain wisdom and experience in life, we learn to let go of what we don’t control and focus on what matters most to us—and regrets of the past simply don’t matter. This attitude of letting go has been confirmed […]