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Starting the Conversation With Older Loved Ones
To state the obvious, midlife can be stressful. Many of us find ourselves not only middle-aged and menopausal but also somewhere between caring for our children and caring for aging parents or other older loved ones. Sometimes, we can get so swept up in the incessant grind of daily life that we overlook the benefit of proactively […]
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Midlife Characters We Love on Screen and in Print
The 21st century has given us everything from social media influencers to 3-D printing to the birth control patch. It’s also given us a wealth of midlife fictional characters that have made us feel seen on so many different levels. Books, films and television shows have all begun to highlight the beauty, strength and complexity […]
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The Power of New Experiences
I often find this stage of life improbably underwhelming, even as I spend my days spinning around in a blur of busyness. Surely, I’m not the only one who feels this way? So many of us plow through each day so burdened by the overwhelming demands on our time and emotions as dictated by kids, […]
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This is Just a Phase: Tips for Surviving the Teenage Years
We’ve all seen teenage angst depicted on movie screens or read about in books. We know these portrayals intimately because we’ve seen them many times and possibly lived them ourselves. It’s the battle between teen angst and parental anxiety. There is yelling, door slamming, dramatic exiting, crying, pleading. Clichèd portrayals like this exist because there […]
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