French Novelist & Author
Popular culture would have us believe that once we are forty, we are more or less washed up and on a downhill trajectory. It's easy to agree with this view if our thinking is aligned with cultural conditioning that sees age as a category (of young or old) rather than...
Goals have a significant impact on what we do each day, how we live, and how we feel about ourselves. They can be both motivating and disheartening. Motivating when we achieve the goal we set. Disheartening when we under-achieve or miss the goal altogether. Without...
Longer, healthier lives already exist. However, we don't necessarily all age well with few pains and no concern about our physical or mental wellbeing. In fact, physical and cognitive decline are a significant worry for many as I wrote about here. Now, we could wait...
Ageing is the opposite of the term WYSIWYG: ‘what you see is what you get’. What you see is not what you get. Often there's a chasm between outdated stereotypes of the over 50's and their actual lived reality. Invariably, when we think of an older person we see grey...
A recent report by PwC reveals that increasing employment rates of those over 55 years could add $78 billion to the Australian economy with 83% of this gain attributed to better employment of the 55-64 year olds. What are the implications of this? In their...
we measure ourselves against ourselves and not against an external benchmark of what's considered 'normal'. What if we acknowledge that wherever we're at with our health, physical fitness, parenting, caring, work, or any other aspect of our lives is great. The...
We all know that eating well and exercising are important for good health and to age well. We do actually know this. What happens if we know this and we don’t do anything about it? First, I admit to being a whole food, primarily organic eating woman who either walks...
Whilst some of us are happy to move to a retirement village when we're older it's not for everyone. I'm probably in this latter group. However, a danger of remaining at home is loneliness and isolation and potentially poorer health. Keep reading to learn what we...
Imagine embracing each passing year. Truly embracing. Wrapping your arms around being that one year older and genuinely looking forward to the year ahead. Celebrating what you’ve learned and looking forward to the challenges and lessons ahead. This does not mean...
