Have you seen Jane Fonda’s TedxWoman video on The Third Act? It completely coincides with our recent Real Women on Health’s on-line women’s health roundtable “Creativity and Love: What’s Ageing Got to Do with It?” with our experts and real women, like Mary Jo Wallo of the Blue Thong Society. As a follow up, [...]
Real Women on Health meets up with Hay House emerging health and healing leaders! We have two super-dynamic on-line radio shows coming up with Emerging Next-Generational Leaders who are embraced by Hay House, the international leader in publishing self-help and motivational content at its first I Can Do It IGNITE! conference in San Jose on March 17-18. [...]
There are many myths around aging, and ingrained fears that get in the way of truly understanding what’s possible as we age into the second half of our life. For our next on-line radio show, we’re going to address this topic with three key experts: ”Love and Creativity: What’s Aging Got to Do with [...]
Blog contributed by Nancy Peardon, Founder, Hot Flash Pillow, LLC Empowering ourselves with good information in terms of self-care and stress management during menopause shouldn’t be underestimated. There’s so much hype out there aimed at women! My decline in estrogen, escalating hot flashes, and unexpected insomnia gave me all the motivation I needed to [...]
In our last on-line radio show on “Designing the Second Half of Life“, one of our callers described a common symptom of menopause known as ”brain fog”. After doing some research on this, here’s what I’ve discovered: 1. Estrogen replacement therapy is the first “remedy” you can consider if you don’t have a risk of [...]
Here’s the book called “The Second Half Of Your Life” by Jill Shaw Ruddock, and published by Random House in the UK. The book is available here on Amazon.com.
Whatever else 79 million baby boomers are doing, one in eight are caring for an aging parent. Some are checking in on an elderly parent who is living alone, some are caring for a parent in their own home, some are visiting parents in assisted living or nursing facilities, and others are doing long distance caring. Whether [...]
How Do You Know When You’re Done Having Kids? Our real woman on health patient, Tracey, explained to us last week on our radio show that she wanted to be able to enjoy her two children – a boy and a girl – and with both her and her husband working, “we decided that [...]
I must have holiday jingles on my mind cuz they’re invading my mindspace even here on our blog. But, seriously, did you, in fact, know there are at least 17 forms of contraception today? And that several of these options can do more than just prevent pregnancy. I’ve recently learned about this one surgery-free option [...]
My Passage: How I Found the ME in Menopause. Midlife is a journey, or as best-selling author, Gail Sheehy, might say, a passage or transition. Only there are distinct differences from that original publication back in 1976 when Ms. Sheehy was in her late 30’s, and first wrote about the midlife “crisis” as passage point. [...]