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Feeling Self-Confident When You’re Over 50
This may (or may not) surprise you, but did you know that women’s self-confidence drops when they hit fifty? It’s true, I was reading an article about it the other day that said most women feel invisible by the time they’re 51. There’s just something about that age milestone that drains all the self-confidence from your body and puts negative thoughts in your head. Naturally, we don’t want this, and I don’t want any of you to feel this way at all! There are a few reasons behind this drop in confidence around the big five-o, and I think the main one is menopause. When you start to go…
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Mother Nature is Menopausal
It seems that Mother Nature cannot decide if it is going to be hot or cold. Hot flashes followed by night sweats which than leads to freezing. Her mood swings are off the charts with more hurricane's, earthquakes, and tornado's then normal.
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Colder then a Witches …. What?
I had the bright idea that this year my hot flashes would help keep my heating expenses down. I was running hot most of the time so, I could keep my heat turned down lower.
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Too Tired Wide Awake Napping
For some reason, I get so sleepy in the middle of the day that I can’t even think. I try to fight through it most days but sometimes I succumb and take a nap. Regardless, if I have napped or not when it is time to go to bed, I am wired and can’t sleep. I have always been a night owl. My mother said I had my days and nights mixed up as a baby. I wanted to sleep all day and stay up all night. I have tried my entire life to force myself to live by the traditional time of others.…
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My Memory is Full of Sloth Poop
There is something about this day I am supposed to remember but I just can’t remember what it is. It keeps nagging right at the edge of my mind. The joys of midlife memory. Wonder if this eventually goes away once I am on the other side of menopause or will it always be like this? I used to have a near photographic memory. In school, I could read something once and know it. Not just for a test the next day, but know it the next year and the one after that. I’ve always pictured my brain like a room full of file cabinets with a little man running…
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Menopause and the Mississippi
I have decided going through “the change” is like being pregnant and going through puberty at the same time. Yep, its really that crazy. You have whacked out hormone swings, weight gain, and hair popping up in weird places. Don’t even get me started on the hair. I think maybe I’m turning into a pubescent boy, who just happens to be pregnant, with all these random chin hairs and peach fuzz on my lip. Menopause, perimenopause, midlife crisis or whatever you want to call it sucks. It is like being on a roller coaster ride with no end in site. Just up and down, then the bottom drops out and…
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Despair
I am tired but my mind will not rest. I can find no relief from this despair and anguish that I feel. I fear I am losing my mind to this insanity that is my body in its present state. This body that is not mine. This body that is possessed by raging heat and mind numbing sorrow. This body that shakes with anxiety at the mere thought of venturing down the street. This body that belongs to some crazed old woman. I am a soul trapped in an illusion of humanity that rebels against all pleasure and knows only pain. A soul that has fallen so deep down the…
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Insomnolent Soul
is it sadness or is it madness that permeates my soul this longing for TIME LONG FORGOTTEN BY MOST a time of carefree youth that I squandered NOT REALIZING one day it would be gone so busy chasing an elusive dream never stopping to see the beauty in the sun wanting to grow up so fast wanting to be an adult NOT CARING ABOUT TODAY now it is tomorrow The setting of the sun and what have I done WHAT HAVE I REALLY DONE
