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Sometimes I Wish People Would Stop Talking!

5 days ago2 min read

Sometimes I Wish People Would Stop Talking!

I have to confess something. I am not proud of it: Sometimes I wish people would just stop talking already. One of my favorite things in...

Rhyena Halpern

Dec 71 min read

Planning Your Third Act at 80

Can you be 80 years old and planning for your next chapter of life? You bet!!! As a Third Act Retirement Coach and End of Life Doula, I...

Rhyena Halpern

Dec 32 min read

You May Not Need that Colonoscopy

53,000 Americans are expected to die from colon or rectal cancer this year . I usually write here on topics of death and dying. I don't...

Rhyena Halpern

Nov 121 min read

The Privilege of Listening

When I read Anne Sexton's quote "Put Your Ear Down Close to Your Soul and Listen," I must admit that I am an end of life doula for...

Rhyena Halpern

Nov 51 min read

Enriching Our Elder Years

As we approach the end of our lives, our outside world may become smaller but our interior world can grow very large. In our elder years,...

Is it OK to Date After Losing Your Partner?

Rhyena Halpern

Nov 31 min read

Is it OK to Date After Losing Your Partner?

There are more than 11 million widows and 3 million widowers in the U.S. Most are 65 or older. Many people who have lost a partner want...

Rhyena Halpern

Oct 51 min read

Your Life in Dots

What does your life look like in weeks? If you could see a chart that represented 90 years of human life, where would you fall on it?...

Rhyena Halpern

Aug 41 min read

What is Compressed Morbidity?

The term "compressed morbidity" doesn't sound nearly as wonderful as it is. In Eastern philosophy, it refers to someone being in tune...

Getting Rich from Divorce - But Not In The Way You Think!

Rhyena Halpern

Apr 28, 20222 min read

Getting Rich from Divorce - But Not In The Way You Think!

Twenty months ago I ended my relationship with my partner of 23 years. Happily ended. I wanted and needed it to end. Sometimes I miss the...

Over 60 and Female? You are Having the Greatest Sex of Your Life, Right?

Rhyena Halpern

Apr 12, 20224 min read

Over 60 and Female? You are Having the Greatest Sex of Your Life, Right?

It is so much fun to hear from women in their sixties and seventies that they are having the best sex of their lives! Fulfilling,...

Rhyena Halpern

Feb 9, 20221 min read

Hello Sexual Desire After Menopause!

Just click on the this little link and go right to the post! https://rhyhalpern.medium.com/hello-sexual-desire-after-menopause-4cc399434b04

Why Dating is A Spiritual Practice: The Role of Uncertainty in Relationships

Rhyena Halpern

Feb 9, 20221 min read

Why Dating is A Spiritual Practice: The Role of Uncertainty in Relationships

Please click to go to the post! https://rhyhalpern.medium.com/why-dating-is-a-spiritual-practice-40312e6451d5

Ten Steps to Online Dating When You are Old!

Rhyena Halpern

Feb 9, 20221 min read

Ten Steps to Online Dating When You are Old!

https://rhyhalpern.medium.com/ten-steps-to-online-dating-when-you-are-old-32ae4cca8719

Moving the Needle of Your Mind Ever So Slightly

Rhyena Halpern

Jan 4, 20223 min read

Moving the Needle of Your Mind Ever So Slightly

Greater Happiness Is Closer Than You Think I found a new groove. I got my groove on. I am in the groove. I am groovin’. But it’s not what...

Can You Reboot Yourself in Retirement? How to Design the ‘Third Act’ of Your One Precious Life!

Rhyena Halpern

Aug 9, 20214 min read

Can You Reboot Yourself in Retirement? How to Design the ‘Third Act’ of Your One Precious Life!

About five years ago, when I was still gainfully employed and in the midst of designing a plan for my retirement, aka my Third Act, I...

How I Almost Lost My Life Kayaking Moving from Shame to Gratitude

Rhyena Halpern

May 12, 20217 min read

How I Almost Lost My Life Kayaking Moving from Shame to Gratitude

Photo by Marek Piwnicki on Unsplash I almost drowned once. I did not speak of the experience for decades, nor did I get angry about it...

Sweet Words for Your Third Act: Becoming an Elder, Retirement and Slowing Down

Rhyena Halpern

Mar 31, 20212 min read

Sweet Words for Your Third Act: Becoming an Elder, Retirement and Slowing Down

I relish the weekly time, each Friday afternoon, I spend with the words of the goddess Mary Oliver, whose poems fill me astonishment,...

Dear Men: Why Your Woman Is Bored in Bed

Rhyena Halpern

Mar 1, 20217 min read

Dear Men: Why Your Woman Is Bored in Bed

How to Make Things Better for Both of You Photo by Danny G on Unsplash I had the unusual opportunity (more on that in another story,...

Can Therapy Help You Overcome Your Adverse Childhood Experience?

Rhyena Halpern

Oct 30, 20205 min read

Can Therapy Help You Overcome Your Adverse Childhood Experience?

The Sins of the Father are Still With Us Photo by Tammy Gann on Unsplash One. Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) The domestic violence...

Rhyena Halpern

Aug 21, 20203 min read

Is the Almighty Clock Your Real Boss?

or How to End Your War with Time in Your Third Act I used to think that the concept of an all powerful Boss, ie God, had been replaced by...