Nov
8
Guided Meditation Helps Ease Menopausal Symptoms
November 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Meditation and guided visualization are such rich, yet underused practices that can help ease many everyday ills, from pain to anxiety to symptoms of menopause. No drugs, no expert, no money needed. And let’s face it, insomnia, hot flashes, and mood swings associated with menopause often have complex roots in our emotional responses to life. [...]
Nov
3
Carolyn Myss Live Online: Understanding Your Seven Graces
November 3, 2009 | 1 Comment
From the overwhelming response we’ve received from you about your interest in transformational women thought leaders, and women’s spiritual growth, we’ll be actively looking to post on more events, in addition to the regular updates on conferences and retreats in our monthly newsletter. This month Carolyn Myss introduces her new book Defy Gravity: Healing Beyond [...]
Oct
16
The New Retirement Community: Lifelong Learning on a College Campus
October 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Senior communities centered around golf courses will one day become a relic of a past generation, and one alternative cropping up are apartments and condos within walking distance of college campuses. They’re called university based retirement communities, and a very cool idea. Am I the only one who dreamed of being a perennial student while [...]
Oct
12
Ten Qualities of Self-Renewing Adults
October 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment
The Hudson Institute of Santa Barbara was one of the early coaching and leadership development organizations to recognize that for organizations and individuals, shifting from old models of linear hierarchical control to a 21st century world of flow and opportunity means we need to develop new skills to live and work creatively. With less predictability [...]
Oct
7
If you’ve woken up lately asking yourself what you want to do with the rest of your life – that classic marker of midlife – sign in to make sure you don’t miss this 7-part series on creating your best life for the years ahead. Today we’ll enlist the help of “living on purpose” coach [...]
Oct
3
Carolyn Myss Defies Gravity – Part I
October 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Carolyn Myss has done it again. This keynote describes her latest work, Defy Gravity: Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason. She’s not talking about levitating or anti-aging treatments – but defining healing in simple and intuitive terms through mystical eyes. For several years she’s been studying the works of 16th century Spanish mystics Teresa of [...]
Sep
12
Tune into Life Part 2 Series on PBS
September 12, 2009 | 1 Comment
This upcoming PBS series on the “best-educated, healthiest, most privileged generation in American history – that would be us – looks promising. An Emmy winning journalist hosts a series of interviews, roundtables and video essays to “provide real insights and advice” about encore careers, marriage, finances, caregiving, dating in mid-life, plastic surgery, ageism and more. [...]
Sep
6
Taking the Road Less Travelled in Making a Career Change
September 6, 2009 | 1 Comment
In Working Identity, Unconventional Strategies for Reinventing Your Career, Hermina Ibarra turns most of how people think about career change on its head. The usual line of thinking is that before making and implementing a plan, you first have to go through a process of introspection to diagnose your true self. Ibarra, a professor of [...]
Aug
21
Developing Resilience in Times of Change
August 21, 2009 | 2 Comments
If you can at all manage it, don’t miss this free series with Joan Borsyenko, Ph.D., drawn from her new work, It’s Not the End of the World: Developing Resilience in Times of Change. A cell biologist, clinical psychologist, early pioneer of psychoneuroimmunology (study of the mind body connection), former director of Harvard Medical School’s [...]
Aug
18
Menopause Classic: The Wisdom of Menopause
August 18, 2009 | 1 Comment
It’s hard to believe that Christiane’s Northrup’s whole woman approach on how to have a positive and healthy menopause in The Wisdom of Menopause: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing During the Change, is already a classic five years after it was published. If you followed the hormonal and neurological studies linking women’s biology [...]
