Food is medicine. A couple of tablespoons of raw, unheated, unpasteurized, properly fermented sauerkraut, can do a girl wonders – increasing both your digestion and libido juices. It is the world’s original probiotic. My friend, who I call the Flower Guy because he grows flowers, fruits and vegetables to die for, brought me four jars [...]
Good against evil. Pornography against purity. Male adults enslaving young girls and women. It must stop. Fifteen percent of all proceeds of Midlife Mona Lisa go to Exodus Cry, a Grandview, Mo.-based nonprofit that is fighting sex trafficking on a large scale in the U.S. and abroad. It will take all of our conviction, women [...]
Guest Post by Erin Dow, Mother of Three & Expert Chef Use these Top 5 Stress Busting Foods to Break Your Cycle A stressed-out person’s relationship with food generally falls into one of two camps. Some eat to soothe themselves, gravitating toward starchy carbs because of their quick-acting effects on endorphin levels in the brain. Others tend [...]
If you’re a health-conscious female, you’ve probably fasted or climbed on the nearest stool to do a little internal spring cleaning. I’ve juice fasted and colon cleansed over the years and always felt better for it. I find it a great way to push the reset button on the dirtier aspects of my life. The overconsumption [...]
When is the last time you were as pumped up about your day as little Jessica in the video below? If it’s rare, give yourself a pep talk in the mirror today. Use the affirmations below that pronounce to the world how smoking hot and marvelous you are at this stage in life. Move over, [...]
My name is Brenda, not Glenda. I’m the good Midlife Witch of the Midwest. The bad Midlife Witch is Minnie Pause of the South Pacific but she can be melted with the right compounds. Let me know if you need me to throw some cold water on her for you. My friend Betty supports me [...]
Clutter creates confused chi based on Feng Shui principles. Looking at my drawers, I understand why I tend to live in a state of confusion or stuck in the past. What does a post on clutter have to do with living large in midlife? Clutter robs you of your time, peace of mind and, depending [...]
One of the best parts of attending the Leaders of the Pack conference this week was watching women in suits on heels ride the motorcycle simulator at Gail’s Harley Davidson. First, what a high-vibration place to hold a women’s conference and secondly, the varied expressions I saw on the faces of women over 40 [...]
Remember in college when you sunbathed in March covered in baby oil to get a jump on your skin cancer? Or when you smoked to look cool or borrowed your roommate’s mascara, lip gloss, toothbrush or slept in your contact lenses for a week? You lived on the edge of bacteria, filth and stupidity yet [...]
Lee Block wrote a Huffington Post piece this week called The Fairy Tale: Demystifying the Myth. Block asks “been-through-a-divorce-or-two boomers” what should we tell our daughters about the reality of a prince whisking them away to be his queen forever after? Block questions, should we let our daughters live “the happily ever after fantasy” or [...]
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