As individuals age, maintaining physical strength becomes increasingly crucial for overall health and well-being. For people over 50, engaging in regular strength training offers a multitude of benefits that can enhance quality of life and longevity.

Building strength—particularly in the lower body and core—plays a crucial role in improving stability, coordination, and overall balance.

Whether you’re in your 20s or your 70s, the key is to train in a way that lets you move well for life. As Dr. Attia puts it, “Train today for the life you want to live decades from now.”

The biggest asset you have to offer others is yourself. When you are balanced, that balance is naturally communicated to those you are with.

Some people feel a deep low mood, while others feel flat or numb. There’s often a loss of motivation, trouble concentrating, guilt, an inability to experience pleasure, difficulty making decisions, and/or a sense of hopelessness - like you can’t imagine things getting better. For many, there’s also physical fatigue, appetite or sleep changes, or just this sense of emotional heaviness that makes it hard to function. It can also include experiencing suicidal thoughts.

In my practice I encourage my patients to build their own “tool box” for managing mental health symptoms, and for most of us these tools include some combination of: psychotropic medications; psychotherapy; lifestyle choices (such as exercise /meditation); and social connections / sources of relationship support. However - if there was one fundamental tool I could bestow to all of my patients - it would be the practice of self-compassion.

Sometimes, when we experience a confusing situation in our lives—a tricky misunderstanding, a missed flight, a difficult loss, or even positive news we weren't expecting—we can find ourselves in a nagging bind…

Things are challenging for most of us these days—both personally and globally. It’s easy to feel overwhelmed. It’s even more difficult when we think we are alone.

Anxiety can present itself through a broad range of symptoms.  For the majority of the individuals I work with, anxiety can show up as chronic worry, ruminations or obsessive thoughts that interrupts their day-to-day functioning and negatively impacts their lives.

When it comes to women and strength training—especially women over 50—the myths run deep and wide.

Your energy, vitality, and health are linked to what you take in each day. If your digestion isn’t functioning well, this can affect your physical, mental, and emotional well-being.

Desire is not our enemy. In fact, without desire, no dream is born, no business is started, no family is built. We should learn how to handle it with clarity and balance…