How laughter yoga can be good for your health
Fabafterfifty: Lifestyle
With so many options available to us at this exciting stage of our lives- how do we make the best of them.
Do we take up brand new interests or return to those we had little time for earlier ? We can revisit how we see our working lives – do we return to work, change careers, set up new businesses? How do we go about it? What about money? Have we made the right decisions to give ourselves a secure future?
Our experts and guest contributors are on hand to help us through all these areas.
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Article by Caroline Carr Laughter Yoga. One cold, wet, grey morning last summer I woke up and thought: “You know what – everyone needs a little bit of sunshine in their lives.” This was a massive turning point, as I decided to rebrand from Help! My Partner is Depressed to Let the sunshine in! and somehow in amongst all that this involved, I stumbled across Laughter Yoga on the internet. “Really?” I thought, “Laughter YOGA? How on earth does that work?” I soon found out when I decided to become a teacher of it. Laughter Yoga is wonderful. It’s hilariously wacky, has great health benefits, and the yoga refers to the deep breathing that is an integral part of it, so there are no yoga postures as such. It’s a unique concept that was started in 1995 by a GP in India. Dr Madan Kataria started with 5 people in...
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What was the Anti-Ageing Show at Olympia really like? My review
Article by Ceri Wheeldon There has been considerable coverage in the press this week about an exhibition held at Olympia last week called ‘the anti-ageing health and beauty show’. I went along , primarily to see if it was an event to consider next year for a new project I am involved in. According to one journalist ‘bits of us are falling apart’ Having read some of the reviews I am starting to wonder if I attended the same event. I had a call from one person asking if I had been to the Botox Festival they had read about in the press held at Olympia and today I read a summary of the show in the Financial Times. According to the FT the 11,300 visitors (me included) don’t ‘like what is happening to us at all’ and ‘bits of us were falling apart’ and we were ‘looking for a...
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When ‘Old’ isn’t the Same old Old
Article by Jan King We know from bitter experience that women over the age of fifty tend to become invisible. We still don’t feature much in ads, and the fashion world largely ignores us. But now a government-commissioned report shows that, at least until the year 2030, we won’t be invisible any longer. The Filkin Report ‘Are You Ready for Ageing?’, published earlier this year, shows that between 2010 and 2030, the number of people aged sixty-five and over will increase by 51% and, even more extraordinarily, the number of people aged 85 and over will increase by a staggering 101%. So for the next twenty years or so, older people will vastly outnumber younger people. We’ll be visible everywhere you look. Of course, the visibility bestowed by sheer force of numbers isn’t the sort of visibility we FabafterFifty women would have preferred. We want to be visible in our...
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The Fab 50s – Managing the new Chapter of your Life
Article by Carole Spiers Being over 50 can be the beginning of a new chapter in your life; a time of growth and a period of regeneration. Middle age may be upon you but you have the experience and possibly the lines on your face that go with it! Of course, you might wish that they weren’t there but that is another story! However, they are there and each one tells the tale of your life’s experience. The post 50’s chapter brings not only experience but also brings you greater influence. This is a time when reality starts biting and the dreams that you had when you were younger may now be drifting away into the mists of early romantic visions. Having now faced the hard realities of life and the work required to maintain relationships, you will probably have discarded many of the assumptions and illusions of your youth....
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Win a pair of tickets to see Sir Cliff Richard’s Still Reelin’ and A-Rockin’ summer tour thanks to eHarmony!
Article by Fabafterfifty We have teamed up with online dating expert’s eHarmony in order for one of our lucky readers to win a pair of tickets to see Sir Cliff Richard’s Midsummer Nights – Still Reelin’ and A-Rockin’ tour! Enter the competition below. He’s Britain’s most successful Artist with over 250 million record sales worldwide and over 120 top 40 hits. He’s gained millions of loyal fans, and has a place in the UK Music Hall of Fame for his outstanding contribution to British music. Cliff will be supported by The Military Wives Choirs, made up of the wives, girlfriends, mothers and daughters of our British forces- these ladies found fame on the hit BBC series The Choir. Sir Cliff Richard O.B.E. is returning to the UK in June 2013 for a spectacular Midsummer Nights series of shows, Still Reelin’ and A-Rockin’, at some of the UK’s most-loved national treasures:...
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Helena Rubinstein, the Woman who Invented Beauty Book Review
Review by Ceri Wheeldon For any woman looking for inspiration in business, I can highly recommend, not a ‘how to’ book, but a biography of one of the early pioneers of the beauty industry, Helena Rubinstein. Helena Rubinstein is described by many as ‘The Woman who Invented Beauty’ What a formidable woman, not to say a true visionary. From humble beginnings and armed with a determination to have a better life and not to be married off to a suitable man selected by her own parents, she made the brave decision to leave her native Poland and head off to Australia. Here she soon recognised that the pots of cream created by her mother, could be the saviour of the skin of Australian women exposed to the harsh sunshine. With sheer determination and using her considerable charm, Helena worked with the recipe given to her by her mother’s chemist in...
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Best Knickers Always: 50 Lessons for Midlife
Article by Rebecca Perkins. Coach Rebecca Perkins shares her personal journey that led her to write her book, Best KnickersAlways: 50 Lessons for Midlife Life isn’t always (and let’s be honest never will be) sunshine and roses, and living in a perpetual state of nirvana would probably become stifling and boring. By the time we’ve reached midlife we’ve all faced our challenges—some of us more than others and some of us more than our fair share. Courage and resilience, however, come from our ability to get back up again after we’ve tripped and fallen over life’s obstacle course. Getting back up again is a choice. We always have that choice. So, we get to midlife and we face transition. Those of us who are parents come to realise that our children do not rely on us as they once did. They are leaving home. Those of us who have been...
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Are you thinking of running the London Marathon? Tips to start your training
Article by Fabafterfifty A 50 th birthday seems to prompt many women to set new goals and try something new. Running a first half or full marathon is a surprisingly common goal, with the London Marathon set as the ultimate goal. The London Marathon for 2013 is taking place on April 21st, which means lots of keen runners are currently gearing up for one of the biggest physical challenges they’ll ever face. Completing the full 26 miles of a marathon is a massive feat, and not one you enter into lightly (if you want to make it to finish line that is). So how do you prepare physically and mentally to take on a marathon? Below we offer some tips to help you get through the training and the marathon without running out of stamina along the way. Create a training plan Training for such a long and challenging run...
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Back in black: Lesley Joseph on style, dressing up and the long-awaited return of Dorien
Article by Fabafterfifty. Lesley Joseph may have thought she’d laid to rest the outrageous flirtations of Dorien Green, but the Birds of a Feather favourite is back, and arguably flightier than ever. Showbusiness is a strange animal. You’ll get some actors who are the absolute antithesis of their characters – step forward Pam St. Clement (that’s Pat in EastEnders, of course) who, away from the television cameras, delivers a flower of received pronunciation that’s never once been heard within a mile of Albert Square. In contrast, some actors appear to ‘become’ their character, or their character ‘becomes’ them… take anything involving Danny Dyer as a reference. Yet with Lesley Joseph the boundaries are ever so slightly blurred. Certainly, she talks with an excited rhythm, a pace and urgency that is every bit the echo of Chigwell’s finest, yet thankfully, when it comes to fashion, the 67-year-old is a rather more...
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Fifty Shades of Grey
By eHarmony There comes a time in every man’s life when he must acknowledge his increasing years and alter his lifestyle. For some situations the correct course of action is clear – no man over the age of 30 should wear skinny jeans; a baby seat won’t fit into a two-seater sports car; and that third pint on Friday night will still be having an effect three days later. However, men are often in a quandary when the first flecks of grey start to show. Do they embrace their faded follicles or restore their locks with hair dye? This common dilemma can strike at any moment. All it takes is a careless remark by a close friend and suddenly each morning is spent counting those pesky silver strands. Wanting to maintain a youthful hair colour isn’t always about vanity. When gents are feeling vulnerable about their looks, the loss of...
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