Guest Article by Linda Mid Life is the time when we tend to reflect on where we are in our lives. How we have lived our lives up to this point suddenly isn’t quite so satisfying any longer. You realise what it is to live inside your own skin. Midlife has arrived…that gap between growing up and growing older. It’s hard to pinpoint when precisely it happens, but at some point you just become comfortable in your (more…)
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Article by Fabafterfifty Women at 50: Have come to understand who they are and are comfortable in their own skin Women at 50 are refusing to have a midlife crisis, preferring to have a midlife adventure Are used to multi-tasking and can use this to great effect in life and in the workplace Women at 50 are living life to the full Have come to understand who they are and are comfortable in their own (more…)
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Guest Article by Linda Evans Are you growing old disgracefully or are you embracing your age? Last year I spent a wonderful lunchtime with 3 former flat-mates in the champagne bar in St Pancras station that lingered into late afternoon and never actually involved eating anything more than a bowl of peanuts and olives, but did involve drinking a few bottles of champagne. We hadn’t been together as a group for over 10 years as (more…)
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Guest article by Penelope Young Whether you are 40 or 90 years old, age really is just a number. What is important is your approach to life? Get that right and you are on track to welcome maturity with open arms. I believe we all experience three ages: (1) Chronological (2) Biological (3) Essence I can do nothing about my chronological age. My chronological age is the number of years I have lived on the planet this time (more…)
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Article by Helen Jones Who Are You…. Really? How often do you behave completely authentically? We all play different roles during a day or over the course of our lives and we have a set of behaviours which we have developed for the role we are playing at that particular time. These behaviours may be in line with our perception of how we should act. They may be positive if we are in a familiar (more…)
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Article by Toni Mackenzie ‘Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.’ Og Mandino Not long after I entered my forties, my life changed dramatically. Ten years earlier I had married an airline pilot, given up my job as an air stewardess and was enjoying bringing up my two young children. I felt loved and supported by my husband, lived in a large beautiful house, and believed I had everything I wanted. Suddenly (more…)
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Guest article by June June shares her view of how to cope with bereavement having come to terms with the loss of her own husband. We all have to go through the grieving process when coping with the death of someone close to us. Elizabeth Kublar-Ross in her book On Death and Dying talks about the five stages that people go through—denial and isolation; anger; bargaining; depression and finally acceptance. The dying, as well as (more…)
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Guest article by Kay Newton When you reach 50 you think you know about most things, yet more and more women are finding themselves alone in the big wide world for the first time in their lives. Divorce and the death of partners means many women in midlife need to re-educate themselves in order to survive. Most attacks on women either happen in their homes or within walking distance of the front door. Living alone (more…)
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Guest article by Jilly Forster As a new study out today shows that people in the UK think 59 is old (they obviously haven’t met my 71 year old mother or 76 year old father who are FAR from being considered old by themselves or others!) . Why wait till you’re 59, asks Jilly Forster, when you can start reinventing your approach to later life today? So, UK people believe that old age starts at (more…)
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Article by Jaki Scarcello I read that Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger are separating after 25 years of marriage. A separation is always sad news, even those ones which clearly need to happen, toll the ending of a hope which was formed when the relationship began. I am particularly moved by Maria’s situation as this separation comes just a few months after the death of her father, Sargent Shriver, and less than two years after (more…)
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