EP #242: How to Make New Friends after 50 What You’ll Learn About Making Friends in Midlife after 50: How to make new friends after 50. Why it’s common to want to make more friends after 50. Why your mindset about your ability to make new friends is important. Why it’s important to be...
Continue readingEP #200: Celebrating Friendships in Midlife
What You’ll Learn in this Episode about Celebrating Friendships in Midlife: Why it’s so beautiful to celebrate long-term friendships in midlife. How to communicate better with your friendship group. How to nurture your long-term relationships. Why it’s important to plan time with your friends intentionally. How a group’s collective memory becomes more important and...
Continue readingEP #144: The Joy of Coaching with Like-Minded Women
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about Coaching with Like-Minded Women: How COVID-19 emphasizes the importance of not touching your face and what mindfulness can teach you about managing this urge. What understanding the benefits of coaching with like-minded women can teach you. Why getting perspective about this sisterhood concept can help you see...
Continue readingEp #15: When You Need More Women in Your Life in Midlife
What You’ll Learn from this Episode about When you Need More Women in your Life in Midlife: Why you probably need more women in your life in midlife. How your thoughts about taking time out for adventures with your friends may not be serving you. The importance of midlife women and friend-group traditions. The...
Continue readingHow to create amazing memories with midlife friends
Follow my blog with Bloglovin Midlife gals…are you having as much fun creating amazing memories with your friends as you could be? My guess is that you’re not. I had an interesting airplane seatmate last week while flying to California. I was settling into my window seat as a group of middle-aged men walked...
Continue readingOde to the Neighbourhood Empty Nest
Choosing the right neighbourhood to raise your family in is super important. I was pregnant with my first when we bought our first house. My husband pushed to move into this weird little dated community in the north end of the City of Toronto called “Bathurst Manor.” I hadn’t grown up in Toronto, so...
Continue readingTop 4 ways retired friends can be good for your health
I’m only 53 and am surrounded by retired friends. I love having friends of all ages. Lately, I find myself going to retirement parties just as frequently as 50th birthday parties and baby showers! It’s a phase of life that I know less about and I’m fascinated to learn more. Just fascinated. Not because...
Continue readingWhen friends get a divorce…YOUR emotional fallout can surprise you
I remember the first time someone in my friend circle got a divorce in their 40s. We had gotten to know each other because our sons became good friends. We each had an “all boy” family and similar pets. I actually didn’t know the family that well, but felt like we did because we...
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