Midlife weight gain is one of your biggest challenges, yet you don’t want to jump on another diet fad only to be disappointed again. So what do you do? Start with mindful and intuitive eating strategies to develop an awareness of the relationship between what and how much you eat and your body, feelings, mind, and their interconnectedness. It’s hard to focus on what to eat to live well and flourish unless you can first eat in a way that brings you joy, fills you up, and frees you from the black-and-white diet culture.

Feeling blue in midlife is common. It’s a time of a lot of change in an uncertain world. Creating a list of our accomplishments and successes over the last two years helped us feel grateful, content, and ok. Making this list, reflecting on it, celebrating change, and being grateful, helped us feel better. It served as a reminder that even when things happening in the world around us seems bleak, it’s possible to experience joy.

Physical Activity is one of the most important things we can do for our overall health. Research shows middle-aged and older adults spend an average of 8.5 to 10.5 hours a day sedentary. Use these easy tips to get more physical activity throughout the day.

After menopause women's heart disease risk increases. Yet, only 56 percent of women identify it as the greatest health problem facing them today. Learn key ways to take care of your heart after 50 from preventive cardiologist, Courtney Jordan Baechler.

There is no category for midlife between young adults and seniors. Although AARP membership is open to adults 50 years or older and stores senior discounts often begin at 55, midlife women don’t think or feel like senior citizens. Plus, businesses and organizations aren’t effectively talking to midlife women in advertising, marketing campaigns, and customer service initiatives in a way that matches how we feel. This can take a toll on how we think about ourselves as we age. Read more on how to reset your mindset in midlife to age well, and embrace the senior discount!

Just like you refresh your wardrobe and update your style, you can use makeup and skincare to reflect your style and personality. Our friends Multi-Media Make-up Artists Amy Marie Reed and Carmelle Eickhoff provided 12 simple makeup tips for midlife women to adjust their routines to feel fresh and vibrant while living well from the inside out.

Eating adequate protein plays an essential role in preserving skeletal muscle as women age. Now is the time to assess your intake, review the quality, and look at how you distribute protein in your meals and snacks. Eating high-quality protein throughout the day along with resistance training will ensure you live well and flourish postmenopause.

No matter what eating pattern you follow fruits and vegetables are at the foundation of the recommendations. Eating more produce is a great place to start when trying to improve your eating habits. Increasing the number of servings you eat doesn't have to be hard. Check out these 8 simple tips to get started.

Is your favorite chocolate good for you? Studies suggest adults may experience health benefits from eating one or two squares of dark chocolate a day. Find out how to choose the healthiest chocolate to reap the health benefits.

Rumblings Media is excited to support women-owned businesses with our Valentine’s (or Galentine’s) Day 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 in celebrating women in your life by supporting and lifting up amazing and inspiring entrepreneurs, makers, and small businesses by shopping female-owned whenever possible!

In 2018, we recognized our careers were at a tipping point. Were we going to keep climbing the career ladder at the expense of our personal lives, social lives, and families? No, we were longing for change. Check out the six actions we took to leap past our fears, reignite, and create a life aligned with our values after 50.

Today’s midlife women came of age during an era where women were told they could have it all; family, career, and fulfilling life where they could shape their destiny and choose their path. 

We’ve spent the last year speaking with amazing midlife women who felt that same rumbling and have reimagined their lives and reinvented themselves to design a path for themselves that is more aligned with their values. They’ve reinvigorated their careers, built businesses, or taken risks to create a life to live well and flourish. 

Read their advice and listen to your inner RUMBLING. You can take steps to align your career with your values to flourish through midlife.

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.