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May 5, 2022May 5, 2022

Presence for Mother’s Day

Here in Canada, this Sunday is Mother’s Day.

I know for some, it’s just a commercial holiday.

But for a lot of us, it’s a day we spend time with our moms and families.

Or we take time to remember those moms in our lives that have passed.

In my case, it’s the one day each year that I go visit my mom’s grave.

And I bring her a single flower…

A bird of paradise.

Flowers

It was her favorite.

Just three years before she passed away, my brothers and I surprised my parents with plane tickets to Hawaii for their 25^th wedding anniversary.

March 31, 2022March 31, 2022

Why Yoga leads to a better perimenopause experience

Your hormones may be a little chaotic these days.

I know mine are.

For me, I notice it in my cycle which has been unpredictable over the past few months.

I get heart palpitations every so often.

I get bloated more easily.

I’m more prone to gaining belly fat.

I feel more aches and pains in my joints.

And I had a few months of acid reflux.

Stress is definitely something that makes these things appear or get worse for me.

March 17, 2022March 18, 2022

Your brain in perimenopause

Brain fog.

Forgetting words.

Recently I’ve been enthusiastic about (addicted to) the online game Wordle.

I’ve always been drawn to word puzzles, and what I like about this one is it’s simple and there’s only one a day (thank God!)

But what this game has also made me notice is how sometimes my brain isn’t working as quickly as it used to.

Words that I know, easy words, get stuck on the tip of my tongue.

And at first, I was a little worried.

Was I losing it?

January 4, 2021January 4, 2021

Fake surgery, old thoughts, and moving upward in 2021

“Getting older is tough.”

This isn’t a fact.

It may sound like a fact, but it’s actually just a thought.

And I’ve had that thought many times.

Lately I’ve been catching myself having this kind of thought.

It doesn’t feel good to think it.

In fact it feels heavy, and more than a little scary.

It makes me resistant to aging.

And being resistant to aging doesn’t help, because, like it or not, I’m getting older.

September 16, 2019September 15, 2019

Do you have to age?

If you had have asked me this question last week, I’d have said “Of course!”

Aging is just a natural part of life, it’s like a law or something unchangeable, everyone has to age.

And in fact, I’m ok with that.

I don’t really want to live forever.

But I do want to live healthy as long as possible.

I want a long health span, not just a long life span.

And the newest research in aging is showing how we can have both.

January 11, 2019January 10, 2019

Who are you becoming?

This past Christmas, I received a copy of Michelle Obama’s new book called “Becoming.”

In fact, I didn’t just get ONE… I got TWO of them!! (I did return one.)

And I know I’m not the only one who got this book, because it was hard to find… It was the best selling hard-cover book of 2018 (even though it was only released in November.)

It’s the idea behind this book – which I haven’t finished reading yet – that inspired this blog post.