It is October already… and have to admit I struggle with this time of year. Summer is over and I love the summer, but now the colder days are looming, the nights are getting […]
Autumn Anxiety: Coping With The October Blues and SAD
Coping With Children Leaving Home To Go To University
I originally wrote this post (or a version of it), three years ago. My children, (children? they are now 25 and 22! ) have now left university, but every year around this […]
What Does It Mean To Be A Woman In Her Mid Fifties in 2021?
💙☀️Question: What does it mean to be a woman in her mid fifties in 2021? 💙☀️For me, being a woman of 55 means having a strong sense of my own identity, being […]
The Self Awareness Questionnaire
It was a couple of years ago that I originally posted the first version of this blog post… and it went on to be one of the most popular posts on Somekindof50.com. […]
How to Boost Your Self Esteem
If there is one thing I would alter about my life, it would be that, as a younger person, I had more self esteem. I spent so many years worrying about how […]
The Best Pieces of Advice I Have Been Given
Advice is a funny thing isn’t it. Sometimes very welcome, sometimes completely unwanted, sometimes well meaning, other times downright harmful. Hopefully not these pieces of advice though! These little gems I have […]
What You Should Stop Doing When You Are (nearly) 55
I was watching a television programme last night, when an advertisement came on, clearly aimed at the over 50’s. I was stunned because the people in the commercial looked, well not to put […]
What Yoga Has Given me
It absolutely amazes me that a year ago I had no experience of yoga whatsoever. I’m not even sure what gave me the idea to start, but last January I decided I […]
Why I am Putting Up My Christmas Decorations Early This Year ….
…..Well, the first reason is, I’m a bit bored today. It’s Sunday, and I have no Sky or Netflix due to Virgin Media being down in our area. I’m not moaning too […]
The Power of Optimism
I posted a quote on my Facebook page this morning which I thought was not only beautifully simple, but highly relevant to the situation we are currently in. “Choose to be optimistic, […]
