Meaningful Mondays

  Well we can’t put it off any longer – we are almost into July, officially at the midway point of another year.  How is your year going? Some of you are enjoying a long summer break whilst here in Australia we are snuggling…

  I recently met  Donna Connolly from Retirement_Reflections and immediately knew that I wanted her to write a post about Happiness. I’ve only know Donna a short time but she is so upbeat and friendly that we ‘clicked’ straight away – although we live…

Happiness starts with you Did you know that? MAY has been my month to focus on happiness and what I’ve reminded myself is that Happiness cannot come from material things, or from other people. It is up to ME because long term happiness comes…

  This month I’m writing about Making May Your Month of Happiness  and what could bring more happiness to our lives than our grandchildren? The best thing about being a grandmother apart from just having grandchildren is the joy they bring to our lives.…

  Do you ever really stop and think about your breathing and our emotions? How to master your breathing I recently went to a day retreat and we concentrated on our breathing techniques.  As we lay there slowly breathing in and slowly exhaling, the…

Meaningful Mondays: Be Courageous So often I hear women of midlife expressing the fear that they will become ‘invisible’ as they get older.  This does not have to be the case.  Sure our lives do change as we become ’empty nesters’, retirement happens and…

This week for Meaningful Mondays, I asked 5 of my favourite blogging friends to tell me what they felt brought meaning to their lives.  Five women over 50 all enjoying midlife and beyond with lives that are rich, not in money terms necessarily, but…

What brings meaning to your life?  That is the question I would like you to consider today. In this week’s Meaningful Mondays post, I would love to introduce you to some dear friends of mine who I have met through blogging.  All of them…

Meaningful Mondays: Women of midlife be a role model Around the time of International Women’s Day, a post popped up in my Facebook timeline for a post I had published a year ago.  It was called ‘Be a Woman of Influence‘ and I would…