Apr
3
How Empty is Your Nest?
April 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Are you the chief cook and bottle washer of a “multi-generational boarding house”? A recent survey by VibrantNation.com shows that nearly 2/3 of boomer women report that one or more of their adult children have returned home to live – and that nearly half of them have brought one or more of their own children [...]
Mar
31
Uncertainty Drives Boomers to Retire at Home, in Cities, and to Keep Options Open
March 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Early census data is confirming a trend we noted earlier, that those of us looking towards retirement are opting to age in place rather than retreating to the Sunbelt. In fact, we’re choosing to live closer to cities to keep work options open. Boomers helped fuel growth in retirement destinations, now we’re playing a role [...]
Mar
23
More on Positive Emotions Plus a Tool to Increase Happiness and Benefit Your Heart
March 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment
In light of just having shared the benefits of happiness and positive emotions on heart disease, we’ll share a resource and reprint an excerpt from our monthly newsletter about research on positivity. (Commercial pause: sign up to stay current on cutting edge research on body, mind, emotion and spirit health and vitality.) How negative are [...]
Mar
21
Feminine Power: Why Women Mean Business
March 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment
A follow up to Avivah Wittenberg- Cox and Alison Maitland’s work on the new economic reality of women – and their power – in the workplace and as consumers. In this video they describe how the case for women in the workplace has been made – that gender balance is no longer a women’s issue [...]
Mar
18
10 Myths About Single Women Over 50
March 18, 2010 | 1 Comment
So which stereotypes about single women are true? The ones about women who’ve never felt more free and happy in their lives, or about those who are lonely, unhappy and inflexible? Before finding out how you – or your single friends – may compare to those in AARP’s study of single women over 45, it’s [...]
Mar
13
The Benefits of Happiness and Positive Emotions in Reducing Risks of Heart Disease
March 13, 2010 | 1 Comment
In a ten year study seeking to understand more attitudes affect our health, a team of researchers from Columbia University has found that, just as negative emotions such as anger, depression, and hostility are risk factors for heart attack and stroke, feelings of happiness seems to protect the heart. Specifically, the study examined the impact [...]
Mar
7
According to Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, co-author of Why Women Mean Business: Understanding the Emergence of Our Next Economic Revolution, and CEO of 20-first, a company that helps organizations develop more inclusive leadership styles, gender-balance in their management teams and better respond to women as employees and consumers – one in three new US jobs in next [...]
Mar
6
Live Online Course with Carolyn Myss & Norm Shealy: The Science of Medical Intuition
March 6, 2010 | Leave a Comment
This is a special post for our special intuitives and Carolyn Myss fans. She is offering an online audio course with Dr. Norm Shealy, The Proven Power of Medical Intuition: Self-Diagnosis and Healing with Your Body’s Energy System beginning on March 16. I attended this course live with these two pioneers in energy medicine and [...]
Feb
24
Eckhart Tolle TV: Creating a New Earth Together
February 24, 2010 | 1 Comment
Eckhart Tolle, the runaway bestselling author of A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose, and The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, continues to inspire with his stated goal of creating an online community intended to help usher in a new state of consciousness into the world. A long time in the [...]
Feb
14
This Valentine’s Day, Develop the Second Most Important Quality in Your Relationship
February 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment
When asked what the second most important quality to develop in a relationship is, beyond mutual recognition of spiritual awareness, counselors, teachers and author of several books including their classics, A Shared Heart, Models of Love & The Heart’s Wisdom, Joyce Vissell, RN, MS & Barry Vissell, MD would respond with a litany of qualities [...]
