1. Work out
Maybe you are already doing it, but there is a big chance that you have not been to a gym or even gone for a walk in years. In case you choose the first option, do it two or three times a week and live the experience as a time to enjoy. Just live those moments with no pressures.

2. Learn something
There are many things you can choose. It could be speaking a new language, taking yoga classes or learning about the Internet. You can even take an online course. It will amazingly increase your self-esteem and as a plus you will acquire new and useful skills.

3. Travel
If you can fly to other countries, go ahead. Have dinner in Paris or visit Egypt. You will accumulate unforgettable experiences that will change your life. If you can’t afford big trips, you can go around your own country or even, your own city. There are places in your town which you didn’t know even existed. Start researching and visit those hidden spots.

4. Go shopping
You don’t need to spend a thousand dollars on a pair of heels to feel better but pick a new painting to hang in your living room, or a portrait to put on your desk, and you will easily change the entire room’s look. Changes are always good.

5. Take care of your health
Visit one of those bioidentical hormone doctors. They will help you minimize the symptoms women experience as they grow older, and you will feel ready and fresh to achieve new goals without annoying symptoms or mood changes.

6. Read a book
It doesn’t need to be a self-esteem book or a How-To guide. Choose a title by your favorite author and get lost in one of his/her stories. You will find literature enriches your soul and spirit. You will build up new vocabulary as well.

7. Create your blog
Find out how to do it (it is incredibly easy) and start writing an online journal. Or just upload photos of your children, grandchildren, or even your pets. You can also make friends through the Internet by telling them about your experiences and letting other people leave comments.

8. Teach something
Years must have taught you something that you would like to share. Use your knowledge to make other people’s lives better. Do it as a hobby and if it turns out to be succesful, you can charge for your services. Don’t miss the chance to do what you love while you are making money.

9. Meet your friends for a meal or coffee
Maybe you’re still in touch with some of them, but there must be others whom you haven’t seen for years. Call them and organize lunch together. You will have the chance to catch up and to reconstruct your friendship.

10. Change your look
Dye or cut your hair, change your clothing style, or just do your make up differently. You will feel completely revitalized.

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1. You have the experience to make fewer mistakes.
Of course that some of us never learn, but as you may have, you should make the best use of it. It is a privilege to gain experience and accumulate stories over the years, and now is the moment to use them to your own advantage, as well as for helping others. Younger women will appreciate whatever you can tell them. Even if it doesn’t seem that they’re really listening to you, they will not forget your words.

2. You only worry about important matters.
It is true that we live in a constantly changing world, and at this point in your life you must know that there are things which are not worth worrying about. Take the chance to use this knowlege to free your life from stress. Everybody knows that money is important and that getting it is hard, and it’s not like you shouldn’t care about it. But if you take the time to get closer to your loved ones; you will find out what is really worth fretting about.

3. You can spend more time with yourself.
Letting go of time-stealing activities like working all day or taking care of children gives you plenty of time to do, well, whatever you want to do. It could be reading, learning something, painting or spending a whole day at the hairdresser’s. Do what you please! Take all the spare time to do the things you have been postponing over the years and you will feel absolutely renewed.

4. You are as young as you feel.
Nowadays being 50 does not mean that your life is over at all… Not even close! There is a world of possibilities out there and it is just waiting for you to go discover it. What about an extreme make over? Or even a divorce, if you are not happy? Unlock yourself and do what you never thought you could do. It is never, ever, too late.

5. You are interested in taking care of yourself.
It could be entirely about health, or even about looks. Nobody is going to take better care of you than yourself and, luckily, there are many things that you can do to feel (but most importantly be) better. From bioidentical hormone therapy to ethics therapy, and many, many others. Your mind and body are the most precious things you own and the responsability of keeping them in top condition is only yours. Don’t feel bad when you have real possibilities of feeling great.

6. You appreciate little things.
This detail may seem quite corny but if you make a pause and think about it, you will see that we work all our lives to get big, important things; they may make us happy to some extent but, in fact, the only things that survive through time and make you a better woman, are details. You are in a position of appreciating the details, and this makes your life better everyday.

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“There’s no woman out there
with a Prozac deficiency.”
—Suzanne Somers

At 60, says former Three’s Company star Suzanne Somers, “you can choose fifty old medicines—if that´s what you want, fine, take all your pharmaceutical drugs and end up in a nursing home— or… you can jump on this fast-moving trend”.

What trend is she talking about? Watch this 10 min Metacafe video featuring her sharing with us how a bio identical hormone therapy relieved her from those awful symptoms, you know what I mean. She has something to say about a crossroad we are witnessing these days, when we can live longer and still enjoy our menopause (and regain sexual drive, too!).

Suzanne Somers Speaks About Bio-Identical Hormones at the 15th A4M Conference in Las Vegas

She addressed that lecture at the 15th American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M) Annual Congress held in Las Vegas in 2007. (1)
A couple of years before this conference, Somers had released her book “The Sexy Years: Discover the Natural Hormone Connection: The Secret to Fabulous Sex, Great Health and Vitality, for Women and Men”. Two years later, the sequel “Ageless: The Naked Truth about Bioidentical Hormones” followed.

In Ageless, Somers mentions the now famous Women’s Health Initiative Study, an experiment in which doctors expected decreases in cancer in women who were prescribed synthetic hormones. (2) To their surprise, doctors discovered shocking outcomes, such as 26% more breast cancer and 2,100 % more cases of lung blood clots.

“Yes, that is correct”, writes Somers, to assure you it wasn’t a typo. And she adds:
“So much for synthetic hormones! […] Those of us who were on the original birth control pills for any length of time were actually on synthetic hormones. Any wonder why women of our generation are under siege from an epidemic of breast and ovarian cancers? There is a link.”
Somers endured a cancer herself and recovered. Another excerpt from Ageless about her bio identical hormone therapy:

“I approached my cancer through balanced bioidentical hormone replacement and complemented this replacement with Iscador. (3)

“I believe this was the best decision of my life.
“[…] My health has never been better. I have not had so much as a cold during this time; upon my last checkup, my immune system was so high that my doctor was ecstatic. He said he had never seen an immune system this strong in any of his adult patients.”

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(1) Note: according to its website, the A4M seeks the dissemination of info “concerning innovative science and research as well as treatment modalities designed to prolong the human lifespan”.
(2) The study included 162,000 women, some of whom where prescribed estrogen or progestin and others a placebo. Estrogen was synthesized from horse urine. The experiment was terminated because of the dangerous side-effects observed in an unexpected number of women, mostly related to blood clots.
(3) Iscador: extract of mistletoe, used to treat certain cancers.