Sure enough, my life experience, professional research, and intuitive knowing all pointed in the same direction. Opening the portal to vibrant aging involves three important steps...
Reducing Loneliness When You're Not Alone
How does loneliness compare to hunger or pain?
We know that satisfying hunger and avoiding pain are deeply wired into our brains and bodies. One drives us to seek food. Pain pushes us to take immediate action in an urgent effort to turn off the sensation.
Our drive to avoid loneliness is no different.
Modeling Autumn's Courage
Fall is here. I am just more than halfway between the date of my father’s passing and the date of his gravestone’s unveiling.
Seasonal changes. Transitions in weather. Transitions in life. They are inevitable, can be instructive, and often operate as necessary signposts that mark our evolving journey through life.
Importance of Play
Walk Your Way to Brain Health
Who knew that active bipedalism could be so good for our brains!
Some evidence: A study found that in a sample of 900 men and women aged 65 and over, those who were active walkers, joggers, gardeners, dancers or bicyclers had noticeably thicker gray matter in their brains compared to those were not active exercisers at the start of the study.
Getting a Grip on Alzheimer's Disease
This week we lost Gene Wilder to “complications of Alzheimer’s disease.” We are all becoming eerily familiar with the statistics about Alzheimer’s disease. Media messages attached to the statistics and tragic stories of this mind-thieving condition leave us feeling powerless or simply crossing our fingers and hoping for the best. How sad! There is so much more that is in our grasp.
Curiosity's Fire
I don’t know about you, but I find it a daily challenge to distinguish between being busy and being engaged, between doing what is urgent and doing what matters, and between being full and being satiated and gratified.
Research on what sustains long-term mental vitality offers us clues about how these distinctions can be made each day.
