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Join us for this soul enriching power-hour and set your Aging GreatFULLy compass towards your True North to live your best life NOW by design on your terms! You’re invited to get excited about every milestone of your amazing life journey…Aging GreatFULLy style as we revisit this popular Flashback Friday favorite!

It’s easy find ourselves headed off course in life, but when we look to our own GPS and inner knowing, it’s amazing what wisdom and guidance gifts we each possess. Host Holley Kelley invites listeners to consider the advice the older version of “you” might give to “younger you”-- and it is surprising to discover what older you has to say! Each listener is encouraged to put pen to paper or fingers to the keyboard and write a letter – that is, “A Letter to my Younger Self” – and see what amazing wisdom and even sage advice shows up. Not only does she share her letter but she also reinforces that we each hold inside us now the wisdom of our elder self that we can utilize to get the most out of life. It is an extraordinary exercise but also reveals our own insight to help us navigate forward and trust ourselves and what we’ve come to know.

Sharing an “AGING GREATFULLY” acronym, we discover some incredible attributes that contribute towards an Aging GreatFULLy lifestyle, rich with meaning and experiences. We talk about how life can find us at both ends of the pendulum at the same time, happy and sad! And how we can deal with this reality that we often find ourselves in as best as possible. We also explore Aging GreatFULLy life expeditions! Adventures! Setting your compass to awaken you! Wow, it’s an episode to kick up your motivation, stir your enthusiasm, nurture yourself, deal with challenges and even redesign life while deepening your state of gratitude, plus so much more! It’s definitely an hour that is a call to action as we reflect on our amazing insight while allowing our dreams to lead us to realize our many nexts in sight!

Thank you, amazing Aging Rebels, for listening to the Aging GreatFULLy show! We are proud to be the Listener’s Show and create this show for YOU! If you enjoy this episode, please share it with your friends and family and leave us a positive show review on your favorite platform! We are grateful and love spotlighting listener reviews on air who do! We broadcast to over 170 countries around the world on your favorite platforms! To listen, stream, connect, share, download, subscribe, visit our official host page at or https://www.spreaker.com/show/aging-greatfully-with-gerontologist-holl or to connect with host Holley Kelley visit www.HolleyKelley.com where you can find official #AgingRebels™ Merch, stream Aging GreatFULLy with Holley Kelley© and much more! Always remember, YOU rock and YOU ROLE model!

In this Aging GreatFULLy power-hour we invite you to embrace all things summer with one of our favorite health coaches, founder of Health Coach Academy, podcast host and returning guest, Omar Cumberbatch! We will be talking all things summertime fun, adventure and health as we enjoy this season that seems to come and go all too quickly.

Coach Omar offers some great advice for our health and wellness whether we’re traveling by plane or cross-country road trips and we may even have you wanting to pack your bags to go camping as we talk about all the delicious ways to cook up camp food! But summer has its own set of challenges with sun, heat and even bugs, so we also take a deep dive into these topics too to maintain our health and happiness along the way.

We talk everything – from the one thing that can take your salad from healthy to unhealthy –to different sweeteners, declaring war on unwanted bugs, getting enough water and even preparing ahead for your travel adventures. One thing is certain, you’ll be inspired to pack your bags and get you summertime fun on!

Host Holley Kelley begins the hour reminding that we began this year with our 2023 and Me episode setting our sails towards our dreams and being mindful towards our 2023 and Me goals. Mid-year is a great time to check in to ensure we’re still on track with those goals we set. She also shared in this Flashback episode that she’s practicing what she preaches and taking a first ever summer show break and reminded listeners to consider ways that they too can create windows and even weave micro-experiences of summer joy and adventure into their lives too—making it a happy, healthy FUNderful summer to enjoy and remember!

Omar Cumberbatch is a health coach, podcast host and reformed sugar addict whose coaching approaches break down complex health and wellness ideas so you can apply them to your daily life and get the results you seek! He has a business boosting podcast course for health coaches and even offers a 5-day sugar challenge so you can break up with sugar! Visit his website to connect with him, read his blog, check out his podcast, shop and other resources or to work with him one on one with his amazing coaching practices at https://www.omarcumberbatch.com/.

Thank you, amazing Aging Rebels, for listening to the Aging GreatFULLy show! We are proud to be the Listener’s Show and create this show for YOU! If you enjoy this episode, please share it with your friends and family and leave us a positive show review on your favorite platform! We are grateful and love spotlighting listener reviews on air who do! We broadcast to over 170 countries around the world on your favorite platforms! To listen, stream, connect, share, download, subscribe, visit our official host page at or https://www.spreaker.com/show/aging-greatfully-with-gerontologist-holl or to connect with host Holley Kelley visit www.HolleyKelley.com where you can find official #AgingRebels™ Merch, stream Aging GreatFULLy with Holley Kelley© and much more! Always remember, YOU rock and YOU ROLE model!

Join this incredible power-hour as we discover ways to improve our brain’s future! Welcoming special guests, Emily Clionsky, MD and Mitchell Clionsky, PhD, authors of the new book DEMENTIA PREVENTION: Using Your Head to Save Your Brain (Hopkins Press, April 4, 2023). And their message is a clear one – dementia is not inevitable! Furthermore, it is preventable in 1 out of 2 people! But that isn’t just their opinion, their work is deeply steeped in research.

Drs. Clionsky, a physician and neuropsychologist couple have cared for their own parents with dementia, and talk about ways to improve your brain's future, many of which may seem surprising. From vitamins, to your activities, social infrastructure, even mental outlooks, and even how you breathe while you sleep and so much more can play a significant role in how dementia may impact our lives.

In fact, in Dementia Prevention: Using Your Head to Save Your Brain, they share 20 factors that impact dementia risk, including 17 that are changeable in adulthood as well as proven psychological methods to change your habits and health to alter your brain’s future. They educate us on the various types of dementia and clear up some confusion we may have on this topic. But in this episode, they also offer a cliff-notes and layman’s understanding of what exactly is happening when dementia takes hold, allowing us to better understand how we can utilize our stakeholder opportunity to circumvent its potential onset.

But this neuropsychologist team also focuses on areas often overlooked such as hearing, vision, and the many health factors such as blood pressure, exercise and sugar levels that are important to be aware of as it relates to dementia. They echo a welcoming sense of empowerment for everyone, even those who may have a genetic predisposition for dementia, to take control and change several risk factors in their favor.

Together, they have treated more than 25,000 patients with cognitive impairment and are responsible for developing the Memory Orientation Screening Test (MOST), which has been used by hundreds of doctors. DEMENTIA PREVENTION: Using Your Head to Save Your Brain is the culmination of 45 years of extensive clinical evaluation and treatment. It brings together proven science from a wide spectrum of medical specialties -- ones that often do not talk to one another or read the others’ research. Drs. Emily and Mitchell Clionsky skip the fads, the unsupported claims of advertised products, and fringe theories.

Emily Clionsky, MD is an internal medicine doctor with 25 years of experience and is a Diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. She has treated thousands of patients with memory loss at her private practice. Mitchell Clionsky, PhD is a board-certified clinical neuropsychologist with 45 years of experience evaluating and treating patients with cognitive impairment, dementia, ADHD, and traumatic brain injury. Together, they developed the Memory Orientation Screening Test (MOST), which has been used by hundreds of doctors. They live in Springfield, MA. To learn more about their great work, connect with them or purchase their book which is also available at John Hopkins University Press: https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/12532/dementia-prevention you can visit them at their website at: https://braindoc.com/.

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If the love of your life had a progressive disease when you met them, would to see it through from love partner, to care partner to caregiver? Today’s Aging GreatFULLy guest did—and wrote the book—her soul’s rite of passage, if you will, describing her journey in Love, Dignity & Parkinson’s: From Care Partner to Caregiver.

You won’t want to miss a single second of this power-hour of enlightYOUment with special guest Terri Pease, Ph.D., an Author, Coach, and Consultant for Spousal Caregivers. When Terri married her husband, diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease before they met, she brought her confidence and a wealth of knowledge and experience to bear on caring for him. Her professional experience has informed her approach to caregiving and to encouraging Parkinson's caregivers to make self-care real, practical, and possible.

Terri Pease is on a mission to educate family members, spouses, and caregivers of those with Parkinson's Disease, Alzheimer's, and other progressive illnesses on how to maintain a sense of self, ease loneliness, and ask for help while taking care of their patient/loved one. Her book, Love, Dignity & Parkinsons, serves as a roadmap and a shepherding hand for those who find themselves in the care partner and/or caregiver role and seeking support and guidance. With more and more people caring for loved ones, her book offers practical information to help family carers every step of the way.

Terri shares how to solicit support from others to thwart the ever-present challenges of loneliness and exhaustion caregivers experience. She shares the difference between self-care and after care, and describes why Parkinson’s is a thief and a two-person condition. She offers important advice for families to support the primary caregiver to help shoulder the burden and prevent caregiver burnout and even discusses the often overlooked conversation of creating caregiver agreements and understandings made with the person carers may find themselves caring for. From beginning to end, Terri offers compassionate and thoughtful advice for anyone who may be caring for another individual.

Terri Pease also offers Calm, Committed and Connected, a recorded Meditation for caregivers, free to listeners, among other resources and guides that help caregivers and family members of those with Parkinson’s Disease. Terri Pease Ph.D. is a highly experienced professional in the social services and healthcare industries who has dedicated her working life to helping people who are facing highly stressful situations. She has trained staff in organizations around the United States on offering supportive, empathic, and effective trauma-informed care to those who need it most. In addition to her work as an author and caregiver advocate, Terri continues to post information, support, and resources. You can connect with her, access her recording meditations and other great work as well as purchase her new book, Love, Dignity & Parkinson’s: From Care Partner to Caregiver, at www.seaburyhouse.com.

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What if you discovered how to be happy for NO reason? With life’s unpredictability and ups and downs, we often find ourselves caught up in the uncontrollable ebb and flow of circumstances that impact us. Meet Elliott Robertson, a Certified Happy for No Reason Workshop Leader, World Stage Intuitive and Spiritual Growth Coach who offers positive new perspectives for facing life’s many surprises.

A returning guest and author of the book, Say Yes to Life, Elliott Robertson previously joined us to share all the ways we can Say Yes to Life. In this power-hour of enlightYOUment, Robertson extends another invitation to release habits that interfere with heart-centered living, including the habit of dismissing, discounting, or postponing your heart’s desires. Robertson invites us to live in our sovereignty through releasing hold on negative beliefs about ourselves or others and highlights how this can serve as a gateway to cultivate new habits of holding unconditional love for ourselves and allow for a greater capacity to tap into the Inner Knower within each of us.

Not only does Robertson have Visions of a Joyful World – he wrote the book! In his latest book, Visions of a Joyful World, Robertson focuses on dwelling in the positive and setting our inner sails so they carry us to bright, positive directions. He’s on a mission to share with others practices that perpetuate living in high vibes and optimism.

As a World Stage Intuitive, he sheds positive perspectives regarding times of chaos and challenge that occur and invites us to celebrate what he calls “the not yet”. We discuss the challenges in the modern era for hearing our Inner Bell of Truth and talk about ways to tune into our intuitive frequency so we may benefit from the guidance it can offer.

At the end of the hour, it’s easy to see why Robertson beckons us to Say Yes to Life and have Visions of a Joyful World – as we are compelled to step into our own power, wisdom and knowing to live authentically from “the expansiveness of the heart.”

Elliott Robertson holds a Master’s Degree in Psychology and has designed coaching programs that empower people to live from their true self and tap into their wisdom, sovereignty and discernment. He has written devotionals for Daily Word magazine as well as articles for Science of Mind and Miracles Magazine. His latest book, Visions of a Joyful World, is being published in June of 2023. To reach out to Elliott Robertson and learn more about his Spiritual Growth Coaching, Certified Happy for No Reason Workshops, World Stage Intuitive work, or take advantage of his free pdf book offer shared in this episode, you can email him at elliottrobertsonjoyfulworld@gmail.com.

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Have you ever wondered what makes life worthwhile? In this Aging GreatFULLy power-hour we take a deep dive into exploring what gives life meaning–in simple, yet powerful ways—that result in life enrichment and transformation. Welcoming special guest and author of the perfect new book for this conversation, A Worthwhile Life: How to Find Meaning, Build Connection, and Cultivate Purpose, Michael Westover.

Westover helps us understand the distinction between the purpose of life and the meaning of life.

Michael Westover looked in the mirror one day and wondered what the point of it was. He had a successful career in health care, a stable family, and great friendships. Yet, he felt aimless. His life was full—meetings to further his career, hours of TV, activities with his children—but was it worthwhile? Westover wondered why countless people coasted through life as he had, feeling lost and disconnected, while others approached each day feeling worthy and valuable.

He wanted answers. But also, He wanted to feel worthwhile. So, he embarked on a journey for insight. But Westover didn’t just look to the modern era for clues to solve this question…he dug through centuries of research and set out on a philosophical passage to find connection and meaning. What he discovered significantly changed the way he lives his life! He learned that living a life that matters is simpler than we may imagine! And following five types of commitment that are research-proven to give life more meaning, we can all build a worthwhile life and avoid the cycle of distractions.

Westover gives advice from being a good neighbor, human steward or even what to do when life becomes overwhelming. He discusses the value of belief in a higher source, spirituality, faith or religion and how those practices can tether and build a sense of belonging and community as well as foster positive individual ideals. He answers the question as to whether its better to have a happy life or a meaningful life and why and even what a meaningful life looks life as we grow older. He discusses the power of nature, the importance of leaving your comfort zone, how to break out of a slump and so much more!

From beginning to end, Westover shares wisdom, philosophy, stories and cites sources that educate, inspire and enlighten us towards better understanding A Worthwhile Life!

Michael Westover is a writer, speaker, health care industry executive and graduate of the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. Westover’s website, www.echoesofmeaning.com, is a collection of more than 30 articles about human connection, including articles of family, business, religion, and self-improvement. Many of his pieces attempt to look at ancient truths from new angles to make them applicable to modern life. When he is not writing, you can find him coaching one of his kids’ teams, hiking in the Columbia River Gorge, or wakeboarding when it’s nice outside and snowboarding when it’s not. You can learn more about his work, connect with him and purchase his book, A Worthwhile Life, by visiting him at www.echoesofmeaning.com.

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