My Starfish Online

In praise of older women...

"Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family."

Francesca Annis

Picture Source: http://www.geocities.com/francescasite/francesca.html

Day of Peace 21 September

Help create humanity's first day of peace on the United Nations International Day of Peace on 21 September.  I will be as it is something that is really close to my heart.

For more information on this please click below.

BetterWorldCalendar.com/peaceday.htm

Now We Are Over 50

This poem by Lauren Mellor inspired me some time ago.  It certainly captures how I feel some days and is one of the reasons I launched My Starfish Online.  I hope you enjoy it too.

What is an 'older woman'?

 By Claire Raikes

When I was 11, I felt a bit sorry for the girls in the sixth form. As far as I was concerned, they were 'proper, grown-up women' and didn't really belong in a school. Funny how our perception of 'age' changes as we grow older.

At the end of the eighties/early nineties, it was considered 'ill-advised' for the thinking man to marry before he was 30. Not ready to settle down yet or something.  And  everyone knew that, male or female, at 30 you had to stop wearing fashionable clothes and having fun, and get serious! I met my first husband at the age of 21. Life for me was all 15%+ interest rates, civilised dinner parties and putting his career first. I had my first mid life crisis at the age of 26 - and I'm so glad I did, because I got to start all over again!

More Women Millionaires

Did you hear the news this week that according to the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR), a London-based consultancy, women millionaires will outnumber their male counterparts within 15 years? Click here to read a the story at Reuters.

It doesn't surprise me given that other reports have shown that women appear to be more successful stockmarket investors than men, and more of us are leaving employment to create our own companies - again hardly surprising given that UK women are still not receiving 'equal pay'.  The CEBR report reveals that increasing wealth from stockmarket investing is indeed one of the factors that will lead to this happy situation. And it also attributes rising property prices, longer life expectancy and - wait for it - bigger divorce settlements.

According to Steve Doughty's report on the same story in the UK's Daily Mail,

Individual Coaching & Mentoring

I offer one to one telephone coaching & mentoring sessions tailored to your specific needs.  This can cover any aspect of your life and here are some examples of the different areas I have worked through with other women:

• Deciding what you really want out of your life and acting on it
• Rediscovering your passions, talents and skills
• Overcoming the limiting beliefs that are stopping you achieving all you want to
• Making career change really work for you 
• Finding a positive route through unexpected changes & transistions in your life 

If you feel this would help you and you want to discuss the idea further, without any obligation, please contact me.  I would love to hear from you so do email me at the address at the top of this site and I will come back to with a suggested date and time for a chat.

Useful Health Resource

I found a great online resource the other day which I'd like to share with you:

"Amongst the myriad of health websites trying to be all things to all people, 50+Health is focused and exclusively for the 50+'s."

There's a shop selling books and other health products as well as articles and a discussion forum. The site's 'About' page continues...

"We are the children of the 60's.  We were the first generation to be influenced by television and the first to gain sexual freedom through the availability of the pill.  Now in our 50's, we, the first teenagers, are socially and professionally active, and we are refusing to grow old!"