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Jul 15, 2014 | Baby Boomers, Femininity, Health Aging, Midlife Transition, Nine Facets, Self-Care, Sensuality, Uncategorized, Vitality, Women over 50
From the age of 16, I’ve always loved to travel after a life-changing experience as an AFS exchange student to Brazil. With my newly issued passport, I clearly remember sitting in SFO waiting for a flight to New York City and then on to Rio De Janeiro. Looking...
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Sep 4, 2013 | Midlife Transition, Women
I was profoundly awed by one woman this week. With little fanfare, Diana Nyad became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida. The stats were impressive–over 103 miles, 53 hours, 23 knot squalls and 3 foot waves. This was her 5th attempt at 64 years old,...
Sep 14, 2012 | Baby Boomers, Midlife Crisis
In times of major transitions, we impatiently want to leap ahead of ourselves and onto the next thing. Often without much thought. In my experience, this rarely works….the best forward movement in these times seems to be by small turtle steps. Remember the...
Oct 23, 2010 | Baby Boomers, Midlife Crisis, Sensuality
After college I worked for a typewriter company selling ancient pre-computer writing devices. At the ripe old age of twenty seven, I retired for the next 18 years to rear my two children. At age forty five, I began thinking about rejoining the adult world and took a...
Oct 12, 2010 | Baby Boomers, Midlife Crisis, Sensuality
I’ve noticed I’ve been asking myself this questions quite often lately. In many areas of my life. It’s usually something that’s been in my life for quite awhile and it now feels unsettling, boring, not fun anymore, or even worse it brings me...
Oct 1, 2010 | Baby Boomers, Midlife Crisis, Sensuality
A few years ago, I met Nancy at an evening meditation group. There was something about her. I wanted to get to know her better. It wasn’t anything she said or did—it was more how she was “present” in the room and her laugh! Fast forward to...
Sep 28, 2010 | Baby Boomers, Midlife Crisis, Sensuality
The Hourglass Workshops are the answer for anyone experiencing a life change on the mid-life journey. We all have change in the mid-life; whether it is empty nest, job loss, retirement, divorce, remarriage, elder care, illness, menopause, or the good old fashioned...
Sep 21, 2010 | Baby Boomers, Midlife Crisis, Sensuality
I’m Cherryll Sevy and I’ve joined Nancy Burns on this adventure called Hourglass Workshops. At 60 (just over a year ago), I ran my first 1/2 marathon. I was 57 when I married for the second time, after nearly 20 years of being a single mom of two sons and...
Sep 21, 2010 | Baby Boomers, Midlife Crisis, Sensuality
Hi I’m Nancy and this is a brief introduction of myself and Cherryll. We are women. We are the Yin and Yang of women, the black and white with all the colors in between. We are different from each other and yet at the same time we are complimentary. Sounds a...
