As we enter the prime time of our lives, it's time to focus on joy and re-design our lives to live fully and authentically. Instead of a new diet for flourishing after 50, loosen the reins and seek joy in the experience of eating well without strict food rules. Use these 14 tips to bring joy back to eating.

What exactly is the difference between being physically active and exercising? Which is better for us for a sustainable lifestyle approach as we age?

Most of us have been told over the years that we need to participate in structured fitness programs - mainly cardiovascular or aerobic. For many, that means attending a class, getting on a cardio machine, running, or biking.

The truth is, physical activity and fitness aren’t all-or-nothing propositions. And doing one doesn’t negate the benefit of the other. The real trick is to find ways to incorporate physical activity throughout our day, every day, with or without a regular exercise routine.

As we age, we tend to get less and less physical activity and exercise. And, most of us know that exercising and being physically active has health benefits.

Research shows that adults who weren’t active until later in life - after 50 - have an almost equal reduction in risk for disease and early death than adults who were always active.

Continue your active lifestyle if you already have a routine, but remember it’s never too late to start being active or exercising. Making changes, no matter your age, can help add quality years to your life!

We can shape the future of societal norms surrounding aging, particularly in women. We can demonstrate by example that our worth as we age is not defined by unrealistic and unattainable superficial beauty standards any more than it should be for our younger daughters, granddaughters, and nieces.

We don’t have to accept aging trends focused on how we look, how we dress, our skincare, and our makeup routines. We can age by design, in our way, as we choose.

Motivation for volunteering changes over time. Many women, after 50, start seeking a more fulfilling way to contribute and desire to have a true sense of purpose and meaning which volunteering can often fulfill.

Spring is here! The days are growing warmer, longer, the birds are singing, and nature is awakening after a very long winter. Many women have been telling us they are emotionally exhausted - the fatigue comes from caring too much for too long. They’re feeling burned out after the heaviness and struggles of this past year. We feel it too. Let’s appreciate all we’ve been through and all we have learned about ourselves. It’s all helped us grow. Let’s look to the future and plan more fun and festive activities to do TOGETHER with friends and loved ones!

For many of us, reaching 50 was the moment we asked if there was more to life or wondered if we had a purpose beyond family and work. It's not that we don't love our children, careers, or our families. We have a rumbling that there might be more for us individually in the next half of life. We can use practical tips, tools, and techniques to rethink our rhythm for living well after 50 and managing messy, midlife transitions.

Many women after 50 feel burnt out, stressed, tired of the external pressures, and ready to make a change. But, they’re uncertain how to make work and life transitions at this age. Successful transitions are possible. Reset your mindset, to view them for what they are - exciting. You’re never too old to dream big and take the steps necessary to achieve your goals.

We all have the capacity to be fluid or fixed in our mindset. The growth path is to adapt to certain situations - to allow ourselves to be moved or changed due to our environment, experiences, and creative process. A fluid mindset creates new brain pathways leading to success, improves creativity, and helps growth, which will enable us to deal with the uncertainty ahead. At Rumblings, we believe our prime time and our best accomplishments are still ahead of us. To achieve our goals and make our dreams a reality, abundance, growth, and infinite mindsets are critical.

By uncovering your unconscious biases, you can reshape your perspectives, decisions, and behaviors. Adopting a learning mindset toward yourself and your personal biases is a start to making more conscious decisions, altering your thought patterns, and resetting your mindset for flourishing after 50.

We now have evidence that the brain is malleable. What this means is by learning new skills, changing current behaviors, and modifying lifelong habits for better health, you can halt cognitive decline as you age — even into your later years.

Each of us gets to decide and write our personal story. In doing so we will soften our mind, have greater clarity, and calmness as we evolve closer to our truer and more authentic selves. The result is a life full of wholeheartedness. 

The one to three word(s) practice helps you be intentional about the upcoming year and can also help you break the cycle of unfulfilled New Year’s resolutions. Over 80 percent of us fail to achieve our annual resolutions.  By choosing words for the year, you become more intentional about how you want to live your life, which in turn helps you be more successful in reaching your goals. 

Meditation benefits aren’t just a theory. The benefits manifest in practice. Invite the healing prana, that healing breath, into every cell of your being while you practice. Your mantra is the sound of the breath going in and out through the nose. Our practice isn’t done, the more you begin to be still with yourself and move, you will intuitively begin to trust yourself.

You know that feeling you can’t shake? It’s grief. Every single one of us has lost something, and each of us will be forever changed by 2020. How we experience that grief is personal, and it’s easy to fall into a trap of ranking our suffering compared to someone else’s. We have to allow ourselves to feel it, so we can heal it.

Can we be both feminine and formidable in today’s world? Can we find that unique balance between grit and grace? We spoke to Sasha K. Shillcutt, MD, author of Between Grit and Grace: The Art of Being Feminine and Formidable. Read about why spending time along is critical and discover the two critical things that must happen for women to have an equal seat at the table.

Once women reach menopause their risk for cardiovascular disease is equal to the risk for men. Women need to take action now to care for their hearts as they age to feel their best and reduce risk.

Heart disease is still the leading cause of death in women. We don't talk as much as we should about how women's heart health research is 35 years behind that of men. Or, how our symptoms are often not taken seriously. We want to help change the narrative around women and heart disease. It all starts here with a conversation with Courtney Jordan Baechler MD, MS.

The reality is that to flourish after 50 healthful eating matters. In this post, we review the book, The Menopause Diet Plan written by Registered Dietitian Nutritionists Hillary Wright and Elizabeth Ward, which outlines a pattern of eating to help you manage your weight, feel better, and reduce disease risk as you age.

At Rumblings, we worked hard to ensure our Four Rocks to Flourish After 50 foundational principles followed the latest science, as well as, aligned with what we were hearing from other women. During a recent family health crisis, the Rocks were put to a test and found to be key in helping to navigate a challenging time.