This is the first excerpt from a chapter on widowhood in my manuscript on empowered aging and women 50+. Especially during the last year of his life, my late husband loved watching the hummingbirds feed outside our patio sliding door. When he passed away, I didn’t see any hummingbirds for over a week, and …
Changing the Narrative about Gender and Aging by Telling Other Women’s Stories When we were growing up, many of us saw movies and read stories about beautiful, young princesses and ugly old witches with large warts on their pointed noses. We learned from stories and from our own observations that being young is desirable and …
As women, we face numerous stressors throughout our lives – we are the ones who are more likely to manage our careers while taking care of everyone else with little time to take care of ourselves. Most of us have dealt with sexism at some point in our careers, and many are now dealing with …
When we want others to see and hear us, we have to think about our posture during different encounters. If we slump in our chairs or try to take up as little space as possible, we are signaling insignificance. However, if we sit up straight, relax our arms, and allow ourselves to claim our …