by Jenilyn Gilbert
Are you feeling exhausted, grumpy or spacey lately? Do you lack energy? As midlife mothers and mothers to be, our energy levels can sometimes be compromised. As our hormones shift so does our energy. Some of us need to slow down and others need to speed things up. Perhaps you need more hours of sleep, or you may find yourself feeling tired around 3 or 4 PM (in the afternoon) or maybe you don’t have the same overall zest you used to have. […]
by Rosemary Lichtman Ph.D. and Phyllis Goldberg, Ph.D.
By now you’ve likely made your New Year’s resolutions or aligned your energy with your deepest intentions. Want to know the best way to stay on track? Keep a journal. This process can help you create a personal plan and develop the tools to actualize it. […]
by Casey Kochmer
The term Midlife Crisis brings up many images. In America, it brings up deriding images of a person buying a red sports car, daydreams of flings, broken marriages and people acting as a child again.
In reality, a Midlife Crisis represents a deeper possibility for a person to become their dreams. However, those dreams are hard to realize within an un-supportive society and without clear personal understanding of the actual experience. People often end up hurting themselves in the process of trying to change. A person’s life carries a lot of momentum from the past that tumbles them about heedlessly upon trying to change to be something new. […]
by Cyma Shapiro
Dear Reader: Please note that my midlife mother’s essay will air on NPR – RI’s “This I Believe” tomorrow, January 2nd, at 6:35 and 8:35 a.m. and 5:44 p.m. on 88.1 FM (RI) and can also be heard at http://www.ripr.org/listen-live.html or www.shoutcast.com (insert RIPR in the search window).
Read on…
Welcome to 2013! If your 2012 was anything like mine, I honestly could not wait for it to be over. While always seeking the best in everything, on so many levels I felt tested by professional, personal, interpersonal, spiritual and atmospheric experiences. So many tragedies seemed to befall so many of us that at various points, I could not find enough steady ground to hold on to.
So, with the new year at hand, I want to wish all of you sustained health, happiness, prosperity (in whatever way you determine this) and my very best to you in achieving whatever dream(s) you aspire to.
On the midlife mother front, my art gallery show NURTURE: Stories of New Midlife Mothers (www.midlifemothers.org) is now traveling North America; MotheringintheMiddle.com continues to gain subscribers and a bevy of fantastically polished writers. This past week, I was accepted as a Huffington Post contributor. I’m so excited and passionate about it all!
Aspiring to include every midlife mother voice I can find this year, I would like to hear from you! We will begin offering our readers the opportunity to also be a guest bloggers. Do you have a story to tell? An essay or commentary to share? Perhaps you are an “expert” who intersects with midlife mothers? If so, please contact midlifemothers@gmail.com. We hope to feature you […]
Happy Holidays, Midlife Mothers!
Wishing you a remarkable 2013
Much love to all of you – Beverley Golden
by Cyma Shapiro
Dear Reader: Please read a portion of the Huffington Post article on Putin’s barring of U.S. Adoptions and my Huffington Post commentary:
MOSCOW — Defying a storm of domestic and international criticism, Russia moved toward finalizing a ban on Americans adopting Russian children, as Parliament’s upper house voted unanimously in favor of a measure that President Vladimir Putin has indicated he will sign into law.
The bill is widely seen as the Kremlin’s retaliation against an American law that calls for sanctions against Russians deemed to be human rights violators. Dozens of Russian children close to being adopted by American families now will almost certainly be blocked from leaving the country. The law also cuts off the main international adoption route for Russian children stuck in often dismal orphanages…There are about 740,000 children without parental care in Russia, according to UNICEF.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/26/russia-adoption-ban-against-us_n_2364481.html 
For those of us fortunate to have adopted internationally, especially from Russia – my ancestors’ homeland – today’s headlines are maddening and saddening. I am especially struck as I think back to the adoption of my two youngest, from Russia, and the undeniable obstacles, roadblocks, and sheer exploitation we endured, just to have what we so fervently and passionately desired – our children and a family. With multiple and repeated unnecessary trips to Russia, countless dollars, tears, and humiliating experiences and circumstances to endure, to have held our children in our arms and touched down on American soil (thus, cementing their citizenship) began the healing of it all. Until now. […]
by Karen Maezen Millier
To begin, understand this: you are never going to teach your child a life skill that you don’t already have.
But I know. You’re not here for yourself. You’re here because you’re worried about your child.
How do you teach children to meditate?
I’m asked about this all the time. Please know that I speak only from my own perspective as a mother and a practitioner. Everyone has his or her own view. Here is mine. […]
A shout-out for our friends at Perri Meno-Pudge – a calendar for 2013
http://www.zazzle.com/midlife_rocks_2013_calendar-158591710656703350
by Valerie Gillies
I am very opinionated about Christmas tree lights. Flashing is not permitted in our house. Period. I wish I could also stop the flashing going on with the kids I work with at this time of year. Parties, treats, memories, disrupted schedules, past trauma, all combine to make the human equivalents of having left a bucket of kerosene soaked rags in the basement. One little spark and—boom! It’s a tangled mess of emotion, exhausted parents, and zipped up kids. […]
by Aleta St. James
Almost everyone starts off the first few weeks of a new year with great intentions and excitement, and then slowly but surely, the enthusiasm starts to wane. Sounds familiar, right?
You don’t have to have that happen this year. […]