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"The Menopause Diet Plan" is a super informative, easy-to-read/use way for women in (peri & post) menopause to eat for optimal health, weight, & energy!
Co-authors and registered dietitians, Hillary Wright & Elizabeth M Ward. based in Boston, have put together a flexible plan based on research that's easy to tailor and incorporate into your life. These super smart, witty women, roll with banter only possible after 40 years of friendship. Their fun style is as stuffed full of info and doable tips as an epic lobster roll.
Each has written numerous books. Elizabeth has appeared in many publications & TV shows, including CNN, NY Times, USA Today, & the Today Show. Hillary is Director of Nutrition at a private practice and Sr. Nutritionist at Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
Instagram: menopausedietplan
And in Facebook
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When Stella Fosse left her career in bio tech during her 50's, her sexual being bloomed, and she began to write what she calls elderotica, erotic writing for and about older folks (us!)
She blogs and runs erotica writing groups for women over 50 to empower, heal, and awaken our sexual selves through telling our sexy stories.
Her 2019 book "Aphrodite’s Pen" explains how and why we should write erotica. Her new book, "The Erotic Pandemic Ball," is a collection of tales about the love lives of women in a fictional senior community. Her upcoming novel, "Brilliant Charming Bastard," is due end of 2021.
Interested in other erotica titles or joining one of her writers' groups or workshops? Check out https://stellafosse.com/.
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Michelle Aspinwall, certified health coach, is an age alchemist, author, and creator of A Skin care products for women over 40. Michelle works with women worldwide to relieve hormonal symptoms and age timelessly with a deep connection to their Self. She's dynamic and really listens, honoring each woman's whole physiological and personal uniqueness to tailor their plan.
Thought sparks kept popping in this chat that I'm using every day.
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3 bloggers/social media influencers discuss their spouses' dying, deaths, and their grief and re-emergence. Clockwise from upper right: Billie Best, (me,) Judith Boyd (a.k.a. Style Crone,)and Cat Gilliam Cunningham share being caregiver and support while their spouse fought cancer, how that shaped their relationship with death, planning for their spouse's death and funeral, how they have shaped their lives since... An informal conversation that candidly with great insight, vulnerability, and perspective gives us language and courage to be involved in the natural process of dying and death.
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NC Poet Laureate talks about her muse, school desegregation in the 1960's, how her relationship with death changed, sensuality sexuality & love, being Grandmother in the community, her role as Laureate, how to establish your worth... "I want to write her rich." And she Does!
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Sandra Anderson, senior faculty at Himalayan Institute, is co-author of "Yoga Mastering the Basics," contributor to H.I. blog and yogainternational.com.
Here she beautiful shares how yoga philosophy can help us reap gifts from aging, explaining how aging's physiological changes can challenge and be overcome. She offers keen practical ways to shift from imbalance into equanimity. How to expand your world in some senses when it may be getting smaller in others.
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Omisade Burney-Scott creator of "Black Girls Guide to Surviving Menopause" podcast and "Decolonizing the Crone," multimedia events and stories of women over 50. She is an activist for social and reproductive justice. Ms. Burney-Scott is a birth & death doula, public speaker, has appeared on NPR, and received many awards for her activism and philanthropy work.
Engaging, wise, and real, Omisade shares stories and counsel on aging, dying, depression, challenges for Black women during menopause and living in America, grieving during the pandemic and so much more. Fun, deep, bawdy, bold, intelligent, fabulous!
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Dr. Alexandra DiGrado, Doctor of Physical Therapy and founder of Boston Pelvic Physical Therapy shares how pelvic floor PT helps issues that plague us after menopause: incontinence, painful sex, as well as how it can help aging male partners, and after gender-affirming surgeries. She talks about good and bad lubricants, at-home therapy exercises, and how to communicate with our partners and find pleasure with them and by ourselves. This podcast is chock full of great information, practical action steps, and hope.
www.bostonpelvicpt.com
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Leanne Babcock is a transformational coach, author, intuitive, and motivational speaker based in Toronto, Canada. She shares her story of completely renovating her life, as well as ways to frame challenges like the pandemic, develop connection with your inner wisdom, be your Real and Wild You, leverage change, and so much more.
Her books, "Open Me" and "Real & Wild You" offer captivating stories and practical exercises to transform your life.
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Gurmukh, Kundalini yoga guru, calls us to join a million+ people around the world of every belief and non-belief, every kind, color, sex, and age to pray/meditate/wish together for the coronavirus to end and all those infected to be healed at 10:45pm EST April 4, 2020.
Her message is one of profound hope. She shares ways that we can offer ourselves and others peace.
ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING is POSSIBLE when we all band TOGETHER.
Let's Rock This! Be safe; Be well <3
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This wide ranging conversation with Countess Catherine Buxhoeveden, senior fashion consultant & fitness instructor, talks about dressing, exercising, how to stay vital and stylish, how she reinvented herself many times, self-growth, her international life and discovering she's a lesbian in the 1960's when married to a man... Classy, candid, straight talker, the Countess is the quintessential model of how to craft your own, best life at every age.
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Dr. Carrie Demers, Medical Director of Himalayan Institute PureRejuv Wellness Center, board certified in both internal and integrative medicine, shares Ayurvedic philosophy on aging, as well as Western and alternative medicine to prevent and remedy the negative physical impacts of aging.
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65-year-old Canadian Deb Berry shares her struggles with alcohol, lupus, and how menopause got her to restart her life on the other side of the world. Later, co-founding the drug and alcohol rehabilitation center, Kembali Recovery Center with her son in Bali, Indonesia. Here is the story of her healing journey of self-awareness to sobriety. By the end, you'll feel like you have a new friend.
www.kembalirehab.com
Kembali Recovery Center video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=u-2EcFGJO8A&feature=emb_logo
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Sr. Executive at a global corporation talks about how we can navigate the workplace and proactively collaborate with employers to optimally through menopause, as well as what her company is doing specifically for women in menopause.
I bumped into her while on vacation in London, and we plopped down on a sofa in the hotel lounge for this interview. She is a sparkling dynamo with keen awareness and clout to make things happen for women with menopause (she advocates for all disenfranchised). So exciting!
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Shari Friedrichsen has spent 45 years studying, practicing and teaching yoga. Her life-long commitment to this science has unfolded across continents, decades and generations. This, coupled with aging itself, has brought more peace, more freedom, more possibility, and more joy to a life well-lived and well-loved.
Here, Shari candidly shares her challenges, life lessons, and yogic approach. Her way and humble wisdom inspires hope and points to a path back to your Self and to peace. I was so moved I teared up after the interview.
Links for Shari –
https://yogainternational.com/search?query=shari+friedrichsen
ttps://www.himalayaninstitute.org/wisdom-library/ search Shari Friedrichsen
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Dr. Anna Garrett, pharmacist, hormone consultant, and author of "Perimenopause: The Savvy Sister's Guide to Hormone Harmony" explains what happens in our body during perimenopause and beyond, how to talk to your doc, and how to alleviate some of the symptoms.
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3 friends and I candidly talk about what aging is like in our culture from hair to sex to weight to men to money to...
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