Five Life Lessons I Learned at a Beach Boys Concert
At mid-life, our favorite songs compile quite the anthology, from the music that played at our high school prom to the first dance at our wedding.
At mid-life, our favorite songs compile quite the anthology, from the music that played at our high school prom to the first dance at our wedding.
Vivian Diller, Ph.D. | Posted 05.21.2012
Today, for millions of women who are reaching that stage of life, is about more than just vanity. It raises other complicated feelings less common among women from previous generations. For better or for worse, grandmas are just not what they used to be.
Douglas LaBier | Posted 05.21.2012
Learning to embrace both the "positive" and "negative" experiences of midlife is the path to growing up into full adulthood. Here are five suggested steps.
Maddisen K. Krown | Posted 05.09.2012
List all of the qualities you do desire in yourself and your partner. Enjoy this list of what you desire to have in your life. Read, picture, feel, enjoy, and embody these qualities.
Nancy Wurtzel | Posted 04.23.2012
Divorce brings up all sorts of emotions, and sometimes people find themselves acting a little crazy.
Vivian Diller, Ph.D. | Posted 04.05.2012
Therapist Bob Bergeron, who committed suicide in December, wrote about aging gracefully. But was he was another one of those people hitting 50, who truly felt an underlying dread of what comes next?
Vivian Diller, Ph.D. | Posted 05.28.2012
One thing that continues to surprise me is how some people seem shocked when I admit my age.
Kathy Caprino | Posted 05.23.2012
Realizing that your life is potentially more than half over is a jarring experience, and brings with it a sense of urgency to live more authentically and more joyfully.
Vivian Diller, Ph.D. | Posted 04.25.2012
Could it be that Madison Ave and Hollywood are finally getting it right -- that audiences are eager to celebrate real-looking women, rather than plastic, youth-defying ones?
Debra Ollivier | Posted 04.22.2012
E. Jean Carroll is a love guru: She has the longest currently running advice column in the country (Elle Magazine, 20 years, six million readers). I recently spoke with Carroll about love, her new dating service and why she hunted for primitive man in New Guinea.
HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Rowley | Posted 01.17.2012
Middle age is a cultural fiction -- a construct that emerged in the last 150 years through a confluence of factors, including industrialization, moder...
Alison Patton | Posted 03.06.2012
I recently heard the "boiling frog story" for the first time. It goes like this: a frog will jump out if placed in a pan of boiling water, but if submerged in cold water that is heated very slowly, the frog won't jump out and will actually allow itself to be cooked to death.
Douglas LaBier | Posted 01.29.2012
Many of 78 million baby boomers, now in the thick of midlife, are vulnerable to feeling demoralized about their lives. For some it's the classic "midlife crisis." But for many, it's more of a chronic, low-grade fever.
www.flourishover50.com | Dr. Katherine Farady | Posted 11.14.2011
In my practice, I have many patients who come in for cosmetic consultation because they would like to look younger or less tired. They have heard abo...
Vivian Diller, Ph.D. | Posted 12.24.2011
When it comes to turning 50, "The Midlife Crisis" is as inaccurate -- and tiresome -- a cliché as "Reinvent Yourself" has become.
Douglas LaBier | Posted 12.22.2011
Both Jobs and Harrison embody different yet similar ways in which all of us can grow and develop towards becoming more fully human. You know when you're on that path -- your inner-self recognizes it.
Robin Gorman Newman | Posted 12.18.2011
Whether standing up to bullies or enforcing what feels right, I know my son comes from a good place. I'm grateful he has strong, positive values. These aren't easy to instill.
Jed Diamond | Posted 12.12.2011
My father tried to commit suicide the year he turned 40. I was 5 years old. I grew up wondering what happened to my father. Finding my father's journals gave me my first clue.
D. A. Wolf | Posted 12.12.2011
Taking a chance and getting back out there may sound like a good idea, but time and timing play pivotal roles.
Holly Palance | Posted 12.10.2011
I take care of myself and look ok for my age; I do Pilates or walk everyday. I color my hair, still wear it long, do botox twice a year and never leave the house without a belt. But whatever else I do, or buy or conjure will not erase the fact that I am a woman of a certain age. And there is value in that mantle. We have earned the title.
Second Act | Posted 12.10.2011
Joan Anderman once had what a lot of other rock-obsessed baby boomers would consider a dream job. As a popular music and culture writer for The Boston...
Scientific American | Jesse Bering | Posted 12.10.2011
If you ask a person when "middle age" begins, the answer, not surprisingly, depends on the age of that respondent. American college-aged students ...
Posted 12.10.2011
This week's webisode of "Money & Happiness" with Laura Rowley focuses on a big challenge for parents: how to pay for college and save for retirement s...
www.dailymail.co.uk | Posted 12.06.2011
Most women treasure the time they spend with their closest girlfriends. And according to new research, it is exactly this that makes women in mid-l...
Michele Willens | Posted 12.04.2011
Does our ambition necessarily wane with the years? Do our professional and creative drives go the way of our sexual? Regardless of age, ambition is clearly something most women consider carefully.
Patricia Crisafulli | Posted 05.23.2012