10 Questions to Help You Measure Your Awesome Life After 60
If you want to measure how your life is going, first slow down the endless, mindless mental chatter. Take 10 minutes a day to decrease the incessant conversations you have with yourself. There’s no best friend in your head. It’s just you!
Read MoreHow to Regain Mental Health After a Serious Illness
You’ve just been put through the ringer. You’ve had a heart attack or finished a round of chemotherapy or had an aortic aneurysm repair or any other such serious health condition. For many, this kind of physical trauma can take a serious toll on…
Read MoreLiving Well Despite Adversity Depends on These 3 Skills
A common belief is that our happiness and wellbeing are in direct proportion to our circumstances. When things are going well, we’re happy. When problems or challenges enter in, we’re miserable. And we’ve all said things like, “When I lose weight, I’ll…”
Read MoreCan Weight Loss Be Fun? You Bet! Here’s How!
Are you rolling your eyes yet? Weight loss? Fun?! If you are like lots of people, you may think that losing weight is anything but. Surprise, suffering is not required! Most people look at weight loss as a punishment…
Read MoreThe Best of Times or the Worst of Times
For some, the times have never been better, and for many the times have never been worse. The stress of living through a global pandemic with all its fallout, namely political, family, relationship and health care philosophy divisions…
Read More11 Awful Opening Lines You Need to Delete from Your Online Dating Profile
When it comes to online dating profiles, I’ve realized that intelligence has nothing to do with writing a good paragraph about yourself. In fact, there are times I feel there is an inverse correlation between intelligence and online dating…
Read MoreTattoos for Older Women – A Surprising New Trend
Since starting Sixty and Me, I have come to expect the unexpected and embrace the diversity and eclectic style of women over 60. Sometimes when I look at a woman my age, I forget that behind that conservative dress and sensible shoes lurks the heart…
Read More3 Tips to Help You Silence Your Inner Critic and Start Believing in Yourself
Being our own worst enemy is something that we’ve all been guilty of from time to time. Perhaps you’ve put off applying for a job role because you believe you aren’t good enough. Or maybe you’ve avoided going to social events due to fear…
Read MoreImposter Syndrome: Why Do We Have It and How Do We Defeat It?
I’ve met women who have relocated to other countries and didn’t even know the language. Women who have written books and started businesses. Women who have found love. One of the women in my community adopted two infants and a toddler…
Read MoreNo Blame, No Shame: Strengthen Your Relationships
There are bound to be differences of opinion between two people. You can love each other and still find yourselves fighting over where to go on vacation. And sometimes we say or do something that hurts the other person’s feelings and requires an apology…
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