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Finding Wisdom in Insecurity
Author: Dorree Lynn, PhD
It's impossible to get to new places or risk new behaviors without feeling a bit off-kilter. This sense of feeling seasick as one goes through change is normal and a prelude to growth. However, most people find endless ways to avoid the unwanted emotions attached with not knowing outcomes and therefore stay stuck.
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Couples who Pray Together Stay Together
Author: Beverly Mahone
When was the last time you and your husband prayed together? Did you know that prayer is one of the first things to disappear in a marriage? Yes, even before sex!
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God is in Our Hearts
Author: Lita Poehlman
I always read the editorial pages of our local newspaper. Back in 2001, I read a letter to the editor that really agitated me mostly because of what I felt was a show of bigotry toward all who were not of this particular man’s religious persuasion and particularly toward Jews.
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The Wisdom of Enchantment
Author: Barbara Becker Holstein, Ed.D
Often times, people think about enchantment as a remnant of fairy tales, magical kingdoms and even the gift of witchcraft. This is a misconception. Yes, there certainly has been a notion of enchantment in fairy tales. Fairy tales are replete with fairy godmothers, who with the very touch of a magic wand can make endings different and create new beginnings...
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Moving Toward the Promised Land
Author: Barbara Becker Holstein, Ed.D
Dr. Barbara Becker Holstein explains that Eskimos have 40 ways to talk about snow. We, as far as she knows, have only one way. She explains that we each carry our own world view, composed of the unique memories, feelings and impressions we have collected through our lives.
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Is Rhythm Your Path?
Author: Zorina Wolf
Looking for a new way to feel rejuvenated? I have seen some amazing changes in people over 50 who use a new rhythmic process called TaKeTiNa to facilitate health and wellness; Believe it or not, wonderful inner and outer changes are possible with rhythm as the guiding force!
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What's In A Name? Everything
Author: Barbara Becker Holstein, Ed.D
Many of you enjoyed celebrating Easter in March, and for those of you who are Jewish, as I am, Passover has just passed this week. I thought it would be interesting to share with you some thoughts about Passover that are so universal in nature that we can all learn from them.
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We Are The Same, You And I...
Author: Lita Poehlman
In the grand scheme of things our Creator had a plan in mind.
Only He had the wisdom to create us equal in all ways.
Does rank and file change the way you perform your daily bodily functions?
Does your stature in the corporate world create some unique scientific
phenomena that exempts you from these natural functions?
Are we not all equals in the ways of nature?
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Ram Dass: Dr. D. Sits Down With The Spiritual Icon
Author: Dorree Lynn, PhD
Those of us on the senior side of Boomers remember counter culture icons Timothy Leary who coined the phrase, "Turn on, tune in, drop out," and his side kick, Richard Alpert, later known as Ram Dass. In my own early years, during my late teens and into my early twenties, I lived in New York City's Greenwich Village.
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Looking for Love? Why Not Begin With Soul - Your Own
Author: Frederica Chapman
Romance is one of the chief motivating forces in our lives. Think about it… If we are honest, most of us still hold tight to our desire for our soulmate, and the "fairy tale ending," the "in-love," "on-top-of-the–world" feeling.
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Decoding
Author: Kathy Caprino
The idea of manifesting what we want in life has been a topic at the forefront of many talk shows and public conversations of late. Today I'd like to address some aspects of the book The Secret that I believe have been misinterpreted or misunderstood based on the "sensationalized" promotional and media coverage we've experienced around this work.
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The Power of Permission
Author: Jacqueline Wales
“When you ask permission, you give someone veto power over your life.”
What would life look like if we were to give ourselves everything we wanted without worrying about whether it was okay with someone else?
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Spring Brings Transitions
Author: Jack Levine
Spring is the season of transitions. Growth gets into gear and the splendor of Nature's bounty gives us the spirit to energize and succeed. And. of, course, there's baseball season....hope springs eternal for my beloved Baltimore Orioles!
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Relaxing Into 'What Is' - Why It's Essential
Author: Kathy Caprino
This month, I am endeavoring to crystallize the key findings that have emerged from my interviews (47 conducted to date) with women nationwide who have overcome professional crisis and transformed their lives and work. These interviews have been so inspiring, and have deeply expanded my love and admiration of women the world over. It has become even clearer to me the many ways women strive to expand themselves and their lives, and to support and improve the life experiences of others.
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Balls
Author: Susan Brandenburg
Balls physically and emotionally unite the people of America. A great number of our citizens, from early childhood on, completely devote their lives to their balls.
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Elephants and Angels
Author: Becky Sobol
Dr. Witold Winiarz was a dignified, traveled, multilingual psychiatrist and great-grandfather who died at the age of ninety-nine. I remember my last lunch with him...
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Ten Thoughts for Thanksgiving
Author: Jack Levine
As we prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving, please remember that the holiday's name is a compound word - Thanks and Giving.
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Rolling With the Punches
Author: Dorree Lynn, PhD
Life is unpredictable. Change happens and just when you adapt to the newness, it happens again. One of the things I’ve learned in my 65 years is to draw my life’s blueprint in pencil.
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Give Peace a Chance: A Quick Primer
Author: Dorree Lynn, PhD
This week’s article is somewhat different from what I originally intended to write about (Sailing with My Youngest Daughter and What I Learned on That Trip) which I will return to next week, unless I am fascinated and derailed by another subject along the way.
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Embracing the Next Change of Life
Author: Avrum Weiss
This fall my eldest child will be leaving for college 998 miles away (but who’s counting). When friends ask me how I’m doing, I tell them to imagine that on the day they were married that they agreed to love, honor and cherish their spouse for eighteen years and then all bets are off. Nobody seems to think that would be a good deal.
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Seven Gateways to Happiness
Author: Barbara Becker Holstein, Ed.D
When I began to call the special part of ourselves that can be found somewhere between the mind, body, spirit and heart THE ENCHANTED SELF®, women expressed their appreciation over and over again. "Thank you giving a name to this special part of myself," and "This is the part of me that I always devalued and ignored because I thought I wasn't entitled to it. Now that you've identified it, I feel justified in developing this part of myself!"
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It's Never Too Late
Author: Barbara Becker Holstein, Ed.D
The relationship between Mother and Daughter is always so special. We all know it can not be replaced. For me, when my mother published her book, FEEL GOOD STORIES at 84, I had a treat beyond expectations as a daughter. She proved to me that wisdom, humor and resiliency can endure and even grow stronger with age. What better lesson can a daughter take from her mother?
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Fifty and Furthermore
Author: Eddie Reece, MS, LPC
At fifty years of age, I feel like I’m just now really figuring out how to live my life. Too bad I’m more than likely past the halfway point. That thought really stirs up my childhood belief that life isn’t fair. Sure I know it’s not about fair. Part of me is so amazingly grateful to be figuring out some of the really important stuff. That causes another part of me to anticipate and feel some of the deep grief that comes as I more fully realize my life is heading much too rapidly to an end. Life
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Change
Author: Dorree Lynn, PhD
Change come fast change come slow but change come.
Caroline, or Change: Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori
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Psychotherapy, Spirituality and Saging
Author: Dorree Lynn, PhD
As I work with people fifty and over, I am aware that no matter how important the psychologically related issues of their personal lives may be, it is rare when spirituality doesn't become an issue fairly early in our work together.
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Embracing Fifty and Furthermore: A collection of thoughts on saging
Author: Judy Robertson
I loved turning 50. I loved all the celebrating and the fuss. It was my day, and I embraced it with everything in my being. Trying to dress like a mature person is another matter. I just can't seem to find a style that portrays the new me. If I just go with comfort, then the discussions ends right here - jeans.
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A Good Story
Author: Barbara Becker Holstein, Ed.D
To tell this amazing story fully I must start with an excerpt from my new book, DELIGHT.
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Aging Gracefully: Not Me
Author: Dorree Lynn, PhD
Aging Gracefully is the new Politically Correct (PC) term for how Boomers are supposed to fluidly dance into their twilight years. To my surprise the term has been picked up and embraced my none other than Oprah, our current icon of what’s in, Time Magazine, and most others magazines and books in the process of sending out feelers about what will work as they both try to lure and to address those FiftyandFurthermore. In my view the term Aging Gracefully is simply all wrong.
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Forgiveness, Gratitude and Joy
Author: Dorree Lynn, PhD
I have often written about life’s shadow side, the dark shadow that people so often don’t want to face. I have written about life’s underbelly, not because I live there, but rather because I believe that one of the best ways to experience happiness is to be able to deal with those life issues and events that cause unhappiness.
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Life: Plan B
Author: Dorree Lynn, PhD
A woman sat on the hard, uncomfortable seat next to me as I was waiting for my flight from Chicago's O’Hare airport to DC's Reagan (Washington National). The Chicago airport had been massively crowded, disorganized and among the worst airport experiences I have had either in the US or abroad. We looked at each other with the kind of mutual recognition that draws two weary women of approximately the same age into conversation. She was dressed very casually in a tee shirt and shorts, and there was
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Creme Fresh is NOT Sour Cream Lite
Author: Dorree Lynn, PhD
I have a somewhat unusual quirk. I love eating alone in a nice restaurant. It is a habit I developed as a young woman growing up in New York City . I hated taking the subway during rush hour. By thirteen I developed the survival mechanism of learning to safely hang out until after rush hour to go home.
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Spirituality: A Must for a Meaningful Life
Author: Rabbi Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
A number of years ago, I was conversing with a congregant - I will call her Lola - who was battling cancer. She was a remarkable woman, a professor of social science in a well-known university, whose life took a turn in a different direction when she was diagnosed with lymphoma.
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Taking Time to Take Time
Author: Diane Black Greene
Have you forgotten something lately??? Have you remembered to look for your blessings? Or have you been “too busy”? Today I received a reminder that blessings are everywhere if we are looking.
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Making Connections
Author: Diane Black Greene
We are now on the move toward the summer. The weather appears to be more consistently like we expect it to be in spring. All around us people are wearing beautiful pastels and the dreary overcoats seem to have disappeared. There is lots of talk about summer vacations, trips here and there. For many people, there are plans for connecting with family at the “family reunion” or friends in far away places. Connecting with and relating to others - the topic of today.
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In the Autumn of Your Life
Author: Diane Black Greene
As you look around you by now hopefully you are looking at trees blossoming and flowers beginning to bloom. You are certainly not thinking of autumn. Alas, as enter these fabulous fifties and furthermore, our life stage is autumn…and it is a "good thing." We are now so worldly wise and if we have truly learned from our growth experiences we may have become more open to new information. This could lead to new ways of doing things...even change.
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Finding Meaning in the Second Half
Author: Jeffrey Cohen
In the second half of our life we are all closer to the end than the beginning. This should not scare us, but it should be a wake-up call to seize the moment and not waste time. As in every adult developmental period, focus and intention are crucial. We have to ask ourselves where and how we will derive meaning in life, and once we are aware of this we need to follow through with decisive action.
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Transition
Author: Dorree Lynn, PhD
Passage from one stage, place, stage, or subject to another—so states the dictionary definition—words that describe movement, but that say nothing of substance and the depth of human feeling. Nothing of nights spent tossing and turning, when craving sleep we lie awake, fighting our personal demons and feelings of failure.
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