Rebellious Wellness Over 50

Are you the “wait and see, hope it doesn’t blow up” kind of person? Or does this sound more like you, “It’s time to make a big change, I’m blowing it all up and here for the ride?” Monica Ricci  did the latter. In the space of four months, Monica left her marriage, sold their two homes, a business, and the illusion of a secure future. She had two choices: fall apart or forge ahead. Even thoug...

What's it like to talk to dead people? How about knowing with certainty that you can receive messages for people looking for direction or help with an area of their lives? Karen Romine, is a psychic and medium but her roots were conservative, traditional. "Even when I was younger, I heard voices or I knew things that I really wasn't supposed to know." And she had many careers before deciding to ge...

Dr. J Ann Dunn was my guest a couple of weeks ago. As often happens, once we ended the interview, questions I hadn't asked popped into my mind. Questions on cancer, mental health, (Which is why she started her company My Happy Genes ) addiction and more. I asked J if she'd come back again to answer them and asked people on my list to join us live or ask their questions ahead of time by email. Thes...

People ask what it means to be rebellious about wellness, health, and aging. This shortie will answer that in part. Boiler plate medicine is one-size-fits-all diagnosing and prescribing and it makes me nuts. True, some aspects of being a woman or a man line up, like stress is bad for us and junk food in abundance causes inflammation and a host of other ills.  Most every other aspect of health...

Hearing loss impacts 430 million people worldwide, including 48 million in the US. You may be one of them or know someone in this category. My guests today are Gael Hannan and Shari Eberts. They both have hearing loss and advocate for others. They co-authored the book  Hear and Beyond, Live Skillfully with Hearing Loss . Their book offer a new skills-based approach to hearing loss that i...

According to my guest, Kathy White, Yoga not just another physical activity like Pilates or going to the gym. And it’s not just for the flexible, young, and fit among us.  If you’ve tried traditional yoga practices like hatha, hot, or vinyasa but felt the poses were too strenuous or complex, stay with us.  Kathy calls her unique blend of yoga styles, a joint renewal system and her g...

Dr. Michael Green loves delivering babies! So why is he appearing on a podcast for over 50 women? Because his second passion is helping women feel better, feel like themselves so they can enjoy the second half of life. He is the head of clinical operations at  ByWinona.com,  whose mission is “To create a world where the second half of life is even better than the first.” He’s also a full...

My guest, J Ann Dunn, suffered with depression for almost 50 years and with Fibromyalgia for decades. As a Doctor of Chiropractic trained in functional medicine as well, she tried everything she knew to heal herself. Nothing worked. She had a successful practice in New Mexico for 30+ years and was bothered by those few patients who didn’t respond to tools she used on all her patients--nutrition, s...

You might say this is a departure for this podcast, for me as Rebellious Wellness. You have a point. Here's why I had  Mary Henderson , international personal branding and digital business specialist, as a guest. Many of my people are women entrepreneurs at  Be More Marketable  and here. Of the many, a good percentage of them are second careerers or looking to get into their own bus...

My guest this week, Morgan Adams is a double certified sleep coach. Here’s how she got started.  “I was desperate to get a good night’s sleep after an unexpected crisis rocked my world in my mid-thirties. As a Pharma rep, I didn’t have the luxury of “sleeping in” after staring at the clock all night. That’s when I got my hands on a popular, physician-prescribed sleeping pill—because when you...

Are you a grandma? Fifty is old enough to have that title. By sixty many women will be lucky enough to join to club. I became a grandma-or Gigi as my grandson calls me—in 2021.  Like my guest, Marsh McLean, founder of  Grandmas 2.0 , I was not ready for that.  Welcoming a wee one into the family was not the issue. The connotation that comes with the title grandma was. As Marsha says...

Who among us relishes talking about death? Specifically our deaths or those of the near and dear to us. Which is weird because if you're alive, you're in for a penny in for a pound kind of thing, with death. End of life conversations, though hard to start, can bring you closer to the person whose life you are helping to plan. My guest, Jane Duncan Rogers, was throw into a situation where she had t...

So you think you know how a lack of deep sleep affects you? Unless you follow someone like Matt Walker , the preeminent neuroscientist specializing in sleep, or one of his colleagues around the world, you may miss out on information that will encourage you to make sleep a priority. And increase the likelihood of aging in good health. It's no secret that as we age, regular, sound, sleep seems to el...

If you've been around Rebellious Wellness at all, you know that BHRT, bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, is a therapy I support for relief of perimenopause and menopause symptoms. And that's what most people think of it for. But it's so much more than just symptom relief. My guest, Monica Molenaar, shares her story, the science, and the reasons she co-created MyAlloy.com. We started with wh...

And every symptom doesn't tell the whole story. Matter of fact, so many states of ill health have overlapping symptoms. Menopause symptoms like poor sleep, weight gain, irritability, or lack of focus can also be caused by a thyroid imbalance. My guest, Kyria Perero, is a total health/holistic health practitioner. She is trained in functional health coaching which means she looks at the whole perso...

It's a fun meme, the whole something is the new. Like fifty is the new forty. And sixty is the new fifty. Sure, fifty today looks nothing like it did just one generation ago when fifty was "over the hill." We are more engaged, take better care of ourselves, are more active. This doesn't change the fact that there are physical changes going on in these more active bodies. Aging changes us on the in...

What if CBD could play a role in helping people get and stay sober? And not only get sober by curbing addictive cravings, but help them once they're in sobriety with depression, anxiety, and mood issues. Today’s guest, Thomas White believes it does and he has the science to prove it as well as a large volume of testimonials. His company,  Exact Nature , focuses on helping people with addictio...

SO many haters! It concerns me that today, in 2022, there are literally hundreds of articles spouting the worn-out line about supplements being nothing more than expensive urine. Years of research to the contrary also fill a Google search. Science advances, so does our ability to run studies and double-blind, placebo control for efficacy and safety. In this shortie I talk about what a supplement i...

Kelli Nelson planned on living the happily ever after kind of life. But at 50 she found herself divorced. She told me, "until after my marriage ended, which was six months before my 50th birthday, I realized I had no retirement, no future, no anything to look forward to because I had wrapped it all up I'm gonna be married happily ever after." She's not the only woman this has happened to and she k...

Cathleen Toomey, the brains behind the  Seniority Authority website and podcast likes to say “Seniority Authority exists because of cocktail parties.” Knowing she worked in a retirement community people often came to her with questions like,  “I think my mom may have dementia, but maybe it's typical age related, memory loss. How do I tell the difference?” And “What the heck is assis...

Menopause can take a woman down with hot flashes, mood swings, sleep interruptions, weight gain, and even the dreaded "Bingo wings." What are those you ask? According to my guest, Magic Barkley, "They are the low hanging fat wings many women get as we age through menopause." At least that's what they call them in Australia. Magic — that's her real name — is a (w)holistic healer who works mainly wi...

Lynda Ulrich is a long time dentist who promised to always put patients first, not insurance companies. She and her dentist husband (and high school sweetheart), practice like old time doctors. They listen, they care, they want the best for people. It was one of Lynda's patients who set in motion The Goodness Exchange. It's a great story. Lynda has a lot of great stories about the kinds of people...

Jennifer Arthurton Was by all measures successful. Mom, wife, corporate exec, perks travel, all the things. Yet for a long time there was that small voice asking, Is this all there is? She had done what she was taught to do. Good grades, good schools, work hard, achieve. Then, in the year leading up to her 50th birthday she found herself myself divorced, unemployed, empty nester. And I was bedridd...

Running a marathon, summiting Mount Rainier, completing a double century bike ride, and competing in a bodybuilding show are the things my guest, Haley Shapley does in her spare time. Day to day she is a freelance writer whose first book, "Strong Like Her" traces the evolution of women and physical strength. She tells stories of elite athletes and people like me and you. "I start in ancient times...

According to my guests, John and Sita, founders of The Bendable Method, fascia is little understood and definitely under appreciated. Their method, "is a specialized form of resistance stretching that works on the fascia along the energetic meridian lines that influence every aspect of your health. The Bendable Body Method facilitates healing on multiple levels — biomechanical, physiological, emot...