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Whether it's sexual pleasure, midlife reinvention, menopause, friendship, redefining style at a certain age, dating after divorce, feeling invisible, or simply being in the last place you ever thought you'd be, you'll feel seen in these essays that acknowledge the changes and challenges but capture the power, freedom, and confidence that comes with age. Told through the eyes of contemporary women writers, authors, and creatives, each shares a story of coming to terms with aging and confronting the unexpected moments that define midlife.

All of us are familiar with the fairy tales of youth where the young hero and heroine fall in love, defeat their enemies, marry, and live happily ever after. The fairy tales gathered here are about what happens next, when the Prince goes bald and the Princess has a midlife crisis. They portray middle-aged men and women facing the special issues dealing with crisis, aging and mortality, and the desire for renewal.

For years, sodium bicarbonate has been used on a daily basis as part of a number of hospital treatments, but most people remain unaware of its full therapeutic potential. In his new book, Dr. Mark Sircus shows how this common compound may be used in the alleviation, or possibly even prevention, of many forms of illness. Sodium Bicarbonate begins with a basic overview of the everyday item known as baking soda, chronicling its long history of use as an effective home remedy.

Worried that old age will inevitably mean losing your libido, your health, and possibly your marbles too? Well, Cicero has some good news for you. In How to Grow Old, the great Roman orator and statesman eloquently describes how you can make the second half of life the best part of all - and why you might discover that reading and gardening are actually far more pleasurable than sex ever was.

Menopause Turbosause! Das Hörbuch über alles, was sie im Leben Ü40 erwartet. Mit den Jahren wird das Leben immer wunderbarer, vor allem als Frau: Nie mehr Schulsport, kaum noch schlechte Flirts und irgendwann, halleluja, das Ende der lästigen Bluterei in der Gestalt der Menopause. Um sich die Wartezeit bis zu diesem Fest zu verkürzen, stürzt die Satirikerin Ella Carina Werner beim Whisky-Tasting ab, zankt mit dem Onkel über Frauenfußball, tanzt berauscht auf dritten Hochzeiten und tritt am Ende das wagemutigste Abenteuer ihres Lebens an: ein Wellness-Wochenende mit der eigenen Mutter.

Паренек из Кобрина, а точнее находящийся в его телепопаданец из будущего Захар Горчак, выжил в страшной схватке с гитлеровцами. Его подобрали и спасли партизаны из легендарного отряда «Победители».

Kiss Tomorrow Hello brings together the experiences and reflections of women as they embark on a new stage of life. The 25 stellar writers gathered here explore a wide range of concerns, including keeping love and sex alive, discovering family secrets, negotiating the demands of illness and infertility, letting children go, making peace with parents, and contemplating plastic surgery. The tales are true, the confessions candid, and the humor infectious.

Em Felicidade inegociável e outras rimas, Thalita Rebouças fala para mulheres que, assim como ela, se encontram em uma fase mais madura da vida e encaram desafios diferentes e desconhecidos. Em mais de 60 textos, que intercalam prosa e poesia–ou rimas, como a autora gosta de chamar–Thalita aborda temas como menopausa, separação, a decisão de não ter filhos e a paz com o corpo e pessoa que se tornou.

We are each crowned twice in this lifetime, teaches the Jungian analyist Marion Woodward. Much is written about the promise of the first crowning, at birth. But what of the second, which comes only after a lifetime of experience? This "crown of age" she says, a symbol for the culmination of our inner and outer development as human beings.

The information in To Die Well is both comforting and empowering. Knowing our rights to refuse treatment, as well as legal ways to bring about death if pain or distress cannot be alleviated, will spare us the frightening helplessness that can rob our last days of meaning and connection with others.

Aprende a centrar más la mirada en ti y a añadirle pimienta a tus relaciones. Únete a ese grupo de mujeres,encantadoramente seductoras, que no se quedan mirando el pasado sino que toman sus propias decisiones porqueestán seguras de que lo mejor está aún por llegar. Solteras, casadas, divorciadas y vueltas a casar, las cuarentonas del siglo XXI, a diferencia de sus antecesoras, son seguras, dueñas de sus destinos, fuertes, decididas y emprendedoras. Se han redescubierto y han dejado atrás la menopausia emocional.

Great advice on exercise and nutrition for a healthy lifestyle. Are you living a fairy tale? If you are really serious about getting the best body, the best nutrition and the best antiaging methods, once pudgy young woman, now bodysculpting champion Donna Aston will show you: why 95 percent of people who lose weight regain it and then some, how low-fat dieting is the greatest scam going, and why those empty processed carbohydrates go straight to the fat bins on your hips.

Unser ganzes Leben hindurch haben wir immer nur die Gegenwart inne, und nie mehr, Was dieselbe unterscheidet, ist bloß, dass wir am Anfang eine lange Zukunft vor uns, gegen das Ende aber eine lange Vergangenheit hinter uns sehn; sodann, dass unser Temperament, wiewohl nicht unser Charakter, einige bekannte Veränderungen durchgeht, wodurch jedes Mal eine andere Färbung der Gegenwart entsteht.

Drawing on the author’s seven years of caring for his mother through Alzheimer's, Be With: Letters to a Caregiver is what its title promises: four dispatches to an anonymous long-term caregiver. In brief passages that cast fresh light on what it means to live with dementia, Barnes shares trials, insights, solace - and, ultimately, inspiration.

Dolphins have always been remarkably friendly and social with humans. They are warm-blooded mammals just like humans. Play is an important part of dolphins' lives, and they often play with seaweed or other dolphins, seabirds and turtles. Dolphins also seem to enjoy riding waves and frequently surf coastal swells. Dolphins are attracted to music and produce unique audible sounds themselves. Many find these dolphin conversations both relaxing and even healing.