Girlfriend Power: Your Post-50 Posse
Can Change The World!
Suzanne Braun Levine
National Girlfriends Day
Huff/Post 50
Girlfriends Day is a great idea. It invites us to search for the words and gestures that can only begin to acknowledge the importance of our own precious “circle of trust.” Moreover, unlike the other designated days of honor, this one isn’t about one person; it is about the alchemy that binds women together.
YOU GOTTA HAVE GIRLFRIENDS –
My Circle of Trust on the Internet!
A Mini Blog Tour
For My Ebook
You Gotta Have Girlfriends is a traveling “circle of trust “- of love and support – on the Internet shared by my girlfriends. Join me to celebrate our post-fifty posses and ourselves on the blogs and websites of my pioneering girlfriends. — Suzanne
“Suzanne Levine takes us beyond the frontier of our own expectations and into a new and hope-filled stage of life.”
— Gloria Steinem
Women’s Health: Why Friendships
Are Good For You!
Suzanne Braun Levine
Huff/Post50
The surest route to decline as we age is isolation. Older people fade away psychologically, physically, and socially, if they don’t have the emotional or intellectual stimulation we take for granted earlier in our lives. So the post 50 version of “an apple a day” is “nurture your friendships.”
Sex, Love, And Unicorns: A
Valentine To Intimacy As We Age
By Suzanne Braun Levine,
Huff/Post50
Being in love knows no age limits, and our bodies can experience great sex throughout our lifetime. That is the message of my new book How We Love Now: Sex and the New Intimacy in Second Adulthood. But as I have been talking up that message, I have learned a thing or two about how it is received.
Good-Bye Self-Improvement, I Am
Letting Go
By Suzanne Braun Levine,
Huff/Post50
My new book How We Love Now is out this week.
The date was chosen because in publishing January is “self-improvement month.” The thinking is that at the start of the New Year we want to repent for all the guilty pleasures we indulged in over the holidays. Which is also why we make resolutions — to become better than we are. Oy, the guilt.
THE URGE TO SHAKE THINGS UP –
WOMEN IN SECOND ADULTHOOD
DO YOU FEEL IT? DO YOU FEAR OR WELCOME CHANGE? Second Adulthood is all about change. It’s about a restlessness that creates a non-specific “itch” to make changes. Life in the Fertile Void, as I call this period, may feel like a free fall; it is alternately exhilarating and terrifying. The changes you choose to […]
HOW DO WE LOVE TODAY?
HELP ME COUNT THE WAYS
DEFINING A NEW WAY OF LOVING IN SECOND ADULTHOOD Do you have a partner or a project or a person who moves you deeply? Someone you trust totally? Have you heard yourself use the word “love” in circumstances you hadn’t before? Do you connect love with sex? If you feel you are missing love in […]
Welcome to the New Home for Women in Second Adulthood
We’re Celebrating…Join Us! With the launch of this website we are celebrating the new home for Women in Second Adulthood along with the publication of my new book: FIFTY IS THE NEW FIFTY: 10 LIFE LESSONS FOR WOMEN IN SECOND ADULTHOOD. In my books, I have collected anecdotes, insights, and wisdom from women at a […]
Turning the Page
We Can Only Learn from Each Other When the first copy of my new book FIFTY IS THE NEW FIFTY arrived from my publisher, my emotions were mixed. On the one hand the book embodies the long-awaited launch of my ideas into the public conversation. On the other hand, it makes me vulnerable to the […]
My life at Ms.
It is always stunning to me to realize that an event that still lives in my contemporary memory actually took place decades ago, so when I was invited to a 35th anniversary celebration for Ms. Magazine it was as though my life was flashing before my eyes. I joined the magazine in the summer of […]