Category: Mental Well-being
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How to Grow with Silver Chats in 2025
We are setting our goals for 2025, and as a reader, we hope to give you a glimpse into the coming year and what it holds for you. Read more
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How To Make A Successful New Year’s Resolution
How many of you make New Year’s resolutions? That elusive promise to make a lifestyle or bad habit change? We have all done it, but not many people achieve success. We start out with the best of intentions but lack long-term execution. We get discouraged because we expect quick results, or it becomes difficult, or… Read more
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Best of 2024: How to Have A Positive Mindset
How do you look at your world? When you get up every morning, what are your immediate thoughts? Are you grateful to be alive, or do you dread the day? One area of mental well-being we can all work on is our mindset. What exactly is a mindset? Oxford Dictionary defines it as “the established… Read more
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Best of 2024: How to Boost Brain Power
A topic of great concern as we age is our cognitive decline. What we hear about most is dementia and Alzheimer’s disease because of their prevalence. But what happens to our brains as we age? As with other physical changes, our brains shrink, especially in the frontal cortex. What is the function of the frontal… Read more
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Why Is The Art Of Doing Nothing Important?
When I retired a few years ago, I had a concept of what I wanted it to look like. I looked at my life and divided it into thirds. The first third was from birth to 25, the second was from 25 to 60, and the last was from 60 to death. I self-described the… Read more
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How To Live Longer By Fasting
What do you know about fasting? If you are like me, I thought it meant going without food, starving and tired, and being hangry. Yes, I said hangry. When I’m hungry, I get cranky. I’ve skipped meals accidentally or fasted for premedical testing, but never for health benefits. Many of our attitudes around food and… Read more
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Why A Mindfulness Practice Benefits Us In Aging
It seems the catchphrase today is “mindfulness.” But what exactly is mindfulness and what is a mindfulness practice? How can mindfulness help us as we age? I was reminded of this blog last week when I was evacuated due to a wildfire. The fire came in fast and we were given 15-20 minutes to evacuate… Read more
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Proven Ways to Boost Our Aging Brains (A Complete Guide)
A topic of great concern as we age is our brain function. What we hear about most is dementia and Alzheimer’s disease because of their prevalence. But what happens to our brains as we age? As with other physical changes, our brains shrink, especially in the frontal cortex. What is the function of the frontal… Read more
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How To Overcome Family Changes
I recently spent time with family and much of it was spent sifting through family photos. It was cathartic and we enjoyed many stories and laughs. It got me thinking about aging and family and its many facets. Some of us find ourselves with parents who need care, children who are now adults, their partners,… Read more
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What Causes Depression In Aging?
We all have times when we are down or feeling blue. These times are natural in life because not every day can be perfect. Sometimes we experience a loss, suffer from a chronic illness, or worry. Sometimes these episodes last a day and sometimes a few days. During these times we may exhibit coping mechanisms… Read more