Feb

28

Stop Dieting and Start Listening

February 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Midlife is built on such shifting sands, isn’t it? Full of surprises and calls to reassess old habits. Looking at your growing girth in the mirror is a case in point. It is unsettling, yet viewed through a different lens, you can see your changing body chemistry as a wake-up call for you [...]

Feb

21

Answers to Your Green Questions

February 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment

It’s so exciting that protecting environmental quality is at last on the national agenda. Finally, a shift from the tired either/or arguments of the past, that going green is bad for business. Or that we have to pick our devil: oil, coal or nuclear. There are so many rational alternatives available, depending on the resources [...]

Feb

19

The Best Friends Approach to Alzheimer’s Eldercare

February 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment

When I began to understand the reality of caring for my mother, who has an Alzheimer’s dementia, I was, like everyone else, unsure and filled with questions about ‘how’ to ‘be with’ her. I was very uncomfortable when she endlessly repeated stories, or mixed up the characters in them. And when the memory of [...]

Feb

17

Menopause and the Science of Alternative Medicine

February 17, 2009 | 1 Comment

Today I sing the praises of Oprah! Not because I always agree with her, but because she is unafraid to raise provocative issues that start a national conversation, causing people that otherwise might not, to pay attention, and to come out of the woodwork to give them a much-needed airing. A case in [...]

Feb

9

Midlife Men in Andropause

February 9, 2009 | 3 Comments

Read today’s San Francisco Chronicle to discover whether a male midlife crisis is more than a state of mind, or linked to andropause, herbie rides again divx download hormonal changes occurring in midlife men that is the equivalent of perimenopause and menopause in women.
According to psychotherapist and male midlife expert Jed Diamond (pictured), author [...]

Feb

4

Snapshot of an Incubating Midlife

February 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Here’s an authentic and real time voice of a valiant midlife – in- process. Recently, Jim Selman posted on his blog, Serene Ambition – isn’t that a great name? – about his upcoming ‘inventure’ – his inner adventure – trip to Africa. He says he’s always wanted to go to Africa, but for one reason [...]

Feb

1

Finding Meaning and Purpose for the Second Half of Life

February 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment

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“Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and our ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning, for what was great in [...]

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