Rumblings Media is excited to support women-owned businesses with our second annual Rumblings Women's Gift Guide featuring unique items for any midlife woman in your life. This list was curated from recommendations from our Rumblings community, as well as from our personal experiences. We hope you’ll join us this holiday season and throughout the year in supporting and lifting up amazing and inspiring entrepreneurs, makers, and small businesses by shopping female-owned whenever possible!

When we help one woman we lift up all women. Discover 10 easy and doable ways to empower women right now from Jane Finette’s recent book Unlocked: How Empowered Women Empower Women. Change starts by taking one action with another person for the sake of all women. The opportunity is great and is now!

Living well and flourishing after 50 is achievable! We're proving when women come together to learn, connect, and inspire one another we thrive. We're grateful to you for believing in this mission and committing to live your best life. Take a few moments this holiday season for you. Reflect, realign, and get ready to RUMBLE into 2022.

Rumblings Media is excited to support women-owned businesses with our first annual Rumblings Women's Gift Guide featuring unique items for any woman in your life. This list was curated from recommendations from our Rumblings community, as well as from our personal experiences. We hope you’ll join us this holiday season and throughout the year in supporting and lifting up amazing and inspiring entrepreneurs, makers, and small businesses by shopping female-owned whenever possible!

Over time, and through trial-and-error, we’ve discovered our top seven tips for successful multigenerational travel. Whether you are planning a trip with family or friends representing different generations, use one or more of these seven strategies for a frictionless fun-filled trip.

The philosophy of Chinese medicine teaches us to live in reciprocal harmony with the natural world’s cycles to maximize our health and wellbeing.

As the last warm days of our late summer wind down and the busy Yang energy of summer recedes, the transition to autumn begins. The days are shorter, the sun sets earlier, and the mornings are cool and crisp. Observing nature in transition during the autumn season, we begin to prepare for more dormant days ahead. Leaves turn and begin their journey back to the earth. Fruits fall, seeds dry, and tree sap returns to the roots. The natural world is preparing for the cold, dark, and challenging months ahead. We, too, must make our preparations at this time. We stock up on colorful and still abundant fruits and vegetables, dry, preserve, and store foods, and rediscover our forgotten sweaters and wool socks—the summer Yang energy transitions to the slower, quiet, and introspective Yin energy during this time.

Over 200 midlife women attended a Rumblings’ Fashion Week MN event. It was an enormous undertaking and a departure from our previous events and outside our ‘self-defined expertise.

Planning the event and meeting new amazing women was fun and exciting. The immediate excitement of the event has ebbed. What hasn’t faded is the energy and new way of thinking and self-discovery from doing something different, a bit scary, but a lot of fun!

Aside from the new friends we met and all we learned about fashion, business, and ourselves, several takeaways will inspire us as we plan future events. We hope it will inspire you to continue to learn, connect, and empower other women so that we can all flourish in midlife.

Kate Ostrem created her business, 9 Open Doors, to share the wisdom of the Enneagram in a practical, down-to-earth way. She loves helping women better understand themselves and others. We wanted to know if learning more about our Enneagram types could help us on our journey to aging well, so we sat down with her for an interview.

During a crisis, you can show support in multiple ways to someone you care about. It’s not what you do, it’s that you step forward and reach out. Not sure what to do? Check out our nine best ways to show support.

Midlife is full of change. We experience transitions ranging from kids graduating and starting on their own, caring for aging parents, health issues of our own, becoming grandparents, changing marital status, household moves, and career moves. Not to mention the changes that are happening with our bodies! Some of the changes are wonderful. Others are very messy and complicated. The only constant is the change itself.

How do you move through change in a way that is healthy and develops resiliency? These are a few of the guideposts that we’ve used to help ourselves and others navigate change.

There is still something magical and simple about a book. The power to evoke an emotion, inspire action, ignite creativity, showcase diverse views, motivate change, and transport us to a different place and time through written language is a great gift.

As lifelong learners, we both have been avid readers. Still, this past year has brought diversity in our reading and added fiction back into a routine that has previously prioritized nonfiction, professional books. What’s interesting — and maybe a little counterintuitive — is that reading fiction can contribute to overall well-being.

Social connections matter throughout your life, but especially in your 50s. Research has shown that strong relationships and personal connections help you live longer and bring joy to your life. Imagine the difference you can make in your own life and the lives of others by taking the first step to connect and build deeper relationships with these 25 fresh ideas.