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Here’s How to Communicate With Your Doctor

April 25, 2017 By SherylK 1 Comment

Here’s How to Communicate With Your Doctor

Communication is a skill that's vital - not just in our relationships, but in just about everything we do. By the time we're in this so-called midlife, we hope we've mastered it, but chances are we slip up from time to time. From the insignificant (like your order of a  "triple, venti, soy, no-foam latte") -  to the noteworthy (like telling the waiter to make sure there's no shrimp in that seafood stew, since you're deathly allergic to shrimp) -  without proper communication, we risk a return trip to Starbucks or worse: A life-or-death trip to the ER. The words we choose - and just as importantly { Read More }

Filed Under: Doctors, Health, Midlife Tagged With: doctor-patient communication, how to communicate with your doctor, how to talk to your doctor

Menopause, Bloating, Hair Loss, Friends and Cellulite

December 7, 2016 By SherylK 5 Comments

Menopause, Bloating, Hair Loss, Friends and Cellulite

Greetings – remember me?? I write that because it’s been a long while since I’ve posted here - and that old saying, “Out of sight, out of mind” scares me a bit. I hate to lose whatever momentum I’ve gained since starting this blog back in 2012 (has it really been that long??). So, thanks for sticking with me! As I write this post, I realize I’ve been a bit, well…absent lately. Short explanation: As a writer, it sometimes is tough to keep the so-called momentum and ideas churning. Long explanation: I hate excuses and I don’t want pity so I’m not going there. But I have been doing a lot of { Read More }

Filed Under: Aging and Growing Older, Anxiety, Diet & Exercise, Diets, Friendship, Health, Menopause, Midlife, Relationships

Menopause and Vaginal Dryness

September 16, 2016 By SherylK 2 Comments

Menopause and Vaginal Dryness

I'm not going to beat around the bush. (Okay, I realize that is a not-so-funny pun.) Why not get right to the point? Menopause brings many changes, and one of the peskiest being a change in the way your vagina feels, which can lead to itchiness, dryness, irritation (which can even lead to bleeding) and trouble with intercourse.  Blame estrogen, or a lack thereof. So many women remain silent about this; too embarrassed to bring it up to their healthcare providers.  So many healthcare providers stay silent about it, too. Maybe they are embarrassed, too - or perhaps they're unprepared, or too { Read More }

Filed Under: Health, Menopause, Midlife Tagged With: Estrogen therapy, How to treat vaginal dryness, Mona Lisa Touch, Topical estrogen for vaginal dryness, Vaginal atrophy, Vaginal dryness, What to do about vaginal dryness

Five (More) Easy Ways to Have Your Healthiest Summer Ever

June 22, 2016 By SherylK 4 Comments

Five (More) Easy Ways to Have Your Healthiest Summer Ever

Happy Summer! I've taken a too-long absence- life gets in the way of work, sometimes-  but am back now to reconnect with all of you, hoping that your lives have been a bit less hectic and dramatic than mine has been lately. Summer began on Monday. Yay!  I love summer for a number of reasons, the most obvious one being, IT'S SUMMER! The season conjures up so many wonderful memories, and since I grew up very close to the Atlantic Ocean, many of these involve the beach, a place that still calls and comforts me. My father used to say that I was like a turtle, always drawn back to the water. It's { Read More }

Filed Under: Food & Nutrition, Foot health, Health, Midlife, Uncategorized Tagged With: diet and exercise, flip flops, foot health, how to use sunscreen, hydration, staying healthy in the summer, Summer, sunscreen, Vionic

Are You the Child of a Narcissist?

April 14, 2016 By SherylK 5 Comments

It's a common scenario: Your parent is aging, and little by little the roles are reversing. You are becoming their parent, and they are becoming like your child. If you were born between 1946 and 1964, then you might be one of 76 million baby boomers approaching and/or ready to enter retirement. Or perhaps you're first ramping up a career that had been put on hold while you focused instead on raising your own family. (That's how it is for me. When my two sons were in high school, I returned to college for an advanced degree, knowing that once they flew the coop, I'd want to focus on a new career. I'm { Read More }

Filed Under: Midlife, Relationships, Sandwich generation Tagged With: Aging, Caregiving, Caring for a parent who is a narcissist, Child of a narcissist, How to help an elderly parent, Losing a parent, Midlife, Narcissism, Narcissist, What do I do if my parent is a narcissist

How’s Your Pelvic Health?

November 30, 2015 By SherylK 13 Comments

How’s Your Pelvic Health?

HEALTH STATISTIC(S) OF THE DAY More than one-third of U.S. women suffer from pelvic floor disorder, or PFD. About 377,000 are reported to have had surgery (as of 20102) for the disorder, with those numbers expected to climb significantly over the next several decades. During their lifetime, approximately one in 11 women will have surgery to address pelvic floor issues, says women's health expert and advocate, Donnica Moore, M.D.  The Story The pelvic floor contains a group of muscles that act as a sling, supporting the urethra, vagina and anus to keep them all wher they belong. Anything that { Read More }

Filed Under: Health, Menopause, Midlife Tagged With: bladder leakage, episiotomy and perineal tears, female sexual dysfunction, how to strengthen your pelvic floor, JoyLux, Pelvic floor disorder, pelvic pain, vSculpt

The End-of-Summer Blues

September 8, 2015 By SherylK 12 Comments

The end of the summer is upon us and I'm feeling blue. How did that happen so quickly? My favorite season, gone in a flash. While some reasons for my sadness are easy to pinpoint (I loathe winter), others are somewhat within my realm of understanding (read below), while still remain tough to define, floating in a space that feels so personal yet is, at times, so difficult to grasp. Summer's end used to be marked by my return to school. A new school term signaled a sudden and abrupt end to what once felt like an endless stretch of time, so confusing in its contradictions. By the end of the { Read More }

Filed Under: Aging and Growing Older, Current Obsessions, Empty nest, Happiness, Midlife, Musings, Our Children Tagged With: back to school, Empty Nest, Summer, the end of summer

5 Easy (and free!) Ways to Be Happier

July 28, 2015 By SherylK 3 Comments

Lately, I’ve been thinking about what makes us feel happy. Maybe it’s because it’s summer – something that always made me unequivocally happy – and right now, I’m not feeling that familiar adrenaline-fueled kind of euphoria happiness.  Really, when you think about it, that’s perfectly normal, isn’t it? I mean, how can one thing – summer- erase all the other so-called stresses that enter our lives? And who is happy all the time, anyway? For one thing, there’s work. I’ve been slaving over an assignment that is keeping me up nights and taking up immeasurable hours every day. Don’t get me wrong – I’m { Read More }

Filed Under: Aging and Growing Older, Anxiety, Current Obsessions, Empty nest, Happiness, Health, Home, Midlife, Things to make you smile Tagged With: Empty Nest, Happiness, how to be happier, how to eliminate stress, smiling, stress, ways to be happy

Knowing What to Say to a Friend With Cancer

July 21, 2015 By SherylK 5 Comments

  Even today, 26 years after experiencing what it feels like to be 'that' person, it's can be hard for me to figure out what to say when someone else gets diagnosed with cancer. I know that when I was going through it, there were so many - too many - people around me who let me down. It was only once I recovered from the throes of illness - getting through the shock of the diagnosis, the physical demands of chemo, the constant drain on my emotions for so many years to follow (definitely a form of PTSD) - that I was able to move beyond myself and realize that people were just as frightened and { Read More }

Filed Under: Breast Cancer, Cancer, Friendship, Health, Midlife, Musings, Relationships Tagged With: Breast Cancer, Cancer, how to comfort a friend with cancer, what to say to a friend with cancer

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What’s this so-called midlife, anyway?

It’s a time of tremendous change, growth and opportunity. A time to re-evaluate our choices, our experiences and ourselves. A time to take what we’ve accumulated up until now and put it to work.

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