Have you ever wondered why sleep after 50 feels so different compared to years earlier? Personally, it wasn’t something I consciously though about until I recently started wondering if my sleep patterns were normal for an active woman my age. And here’s the thing… Falling asleep is NOT the problem…
Author: Laura Mitchell
Laura Mitchell
Laura is the editorial voice of Living Better After 50. She focuses on writing about energy, reinvention, and the small habits that help everyday life feel calmer and more fulfilling for people over 50. Her work blends humor, lived-in wisdom, and practical encouragement in a way that is NEVER preachy or boring.
It was a typical Friday movie night with my husband and we decided to re-live our youth a bit by rewatching the 1985 classic Back to the Future. Five minutes in, my husband was already “mansplaining” time paradoxes to me… Twenty minutes in, we were arguing about whether we’d go…
WARNING: The following is a true story of one woman’s almost scandalous love affair with something called pickleball. No, I’m not kidding…. It happened on an otherwise typical Thursday afternoon that had started innocent enough. The local community center had just finished painting new lines on the basketball court and…
For more than thirty years, Cherie lived with chronic back pain, beginning in her twenties after a serious motorcycle injury and worsening dramatically as time went by. So, as a former PTA who knew how rehab was supposed to work (and believed in it completely) she went through years of…
Every now and then, I reach a point where I’m ready for a BIG TIME reset! I’m not sure how things have been going for you lately, but health issues, work-related stress, and the realities of getting “older” have left me feeling a bit beat up. But have no fear,…
I once spent an entire night worrying if retirement savings could survive the price of coffee in 2040. Then at 3 a.m., my dog was snoring peacefully while my mind sprinted through every possible worry from medical bills to the rising cost of literally everything. By sunrise I decided that…
Have a great business idea but afraid the clock might be ticking to make it happen? Think again!!! The truth is there is no better time to start a new business than RIGHT NOW and after 50. Still have doubts??? Then keep reading… My 71 Year Old CEO Neighbor Last…
Last week I found an old fitness magazine buried in a storage bin… right next to a tangle of phone chargers that definitely don’t belong to any device we still own. On the cover was a young (pre-Terminator) Arnold Schwarzenegger, looking like a Greek god and promising that anyone could…
The other day, I tried something called a “HIIT” workout in my living room. No, it has nothing to do with Mixed Martial Arts or boxing (I’m way too delicate for all that!)… It actually means high-intensity interval training – quick bursts of effort followed by recovery. By minute five…
Charlie was a Korean War veteran who was hurt in combat. In fact, it was a miracle he even survived. But after a long recovery in a military hospital he returned home to his wife and children in Michigan. He eventually started his own business and made a good life…