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The journey to what Abraham Maslow calls self-actualization becomes more urgent as we age. In the blog we explore all the many ways in which you show up in your life every day, and share in your challenges, victories and all the other stuff that life dishes out. And yes, sometimes we dish…

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Midlife Career Change and The Challenges for Older Workers

The pandemic has not delivered equal opportunity suffering for everyone. While the virus doesn’t discriminate, we know that people of color have higher rates of infection and death. Though blame has been implied, because of comorbidities, leveled at this demographic; as though being affected by COVID-19 was somehow deserved because of bad diet and exercise

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NYE 2021 – Celebrate & Mourn!

The New Millenium is Turning 21 – A Personal Review In retrospect, the 2000’s have taken their toll on many, but it’s been like life, a mixed bag. Personally, from being stuck on a runway at Kennedy Airport in NY with a 7 month old and an almost 4 year old for hours (she is

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My NYE 2020 blog post – A year later (shrugs)

New Year’s Eve 2020 – Looking forward to what is before, letting go of what is behind It’s another New Year’s Eve, the end of another rough year, looking forward to a new and promising year, again. Yesterday, a series of mishaps and wrong turns resulted in me ending up where I started the day,

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Anxiety and its Onset in Mid-Life: Overshadowing Success

As I exited the supermarket near my home in Kennesaw, GA one day in my late forties, I suddenly felt dizzy and as if I was going to pass out, on the spot. I hurried to my car and sat in the driver’s seat taking deep breaths and calming myself, it was a while before

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Living our truth – the journey to self

As a young woman, I met a new friend at school who shared that her mother, who had five children, came out as a lesbian in middle age. She and her siblings had processed it over time and had come to terms with it, though 40 years ago it was less accepted. I have to

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