Getting enough
beauty sleep is important, especially if you want to age gracefully. A good
night’s sleep makes you less likely to suffer from depression, memory problems,
and serious health conditions such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and
breast cancer.

Unfortunately, many
women who are 60 and over often have trouble sleeping at night. So, what do you
do if you need sleep, but can’t get any?

Holistic life coach
and founder of Growing Younger Gracefully Sheena Nancy Sarles has a few
sleeping tips for women over 60. In her interview with Margaret Manning, she shares
three simple breathing techniques to help you sleep at night.

Meditative
Breath

A warm foot massage
is the first step to a good night’s sleep. Take any essential oil that you find
soothing and calming. Then, rub it on the palms of your hands before massaging
it on your feet. Giving yourself a quick foot massage before hitting the sheets
will help you get rid of all the tension in your body.

Having a soothing
and relaxing massage before bed helps you relax and unwind. You will immediately
want to hop into bed and close your eyes. Hopefully, you will be whisked into
the land of dreams once your head hits your pillow.

However, if you end
up counting your troubles instead of sheep, you can use simple breathing
exercises to calm your mind. Inhale to bring relaxation, and exhale to release all
tension. Breathe in and hold your breath for four counts before exhaling on the
fifth.

Alternate
Nostril Breath

Another breathing
technique you can use to keep your body calm and relaxed is the alternate nasal
breath. Instead of breathing from both of your nostrils at the same time, you
inhale from one nostril and exhale through the other.

Press your finger
against your left nostril, and inhale through your right. Gently release your
finger from your left nostril, then press it against the right. Then, exhale
through the other nostril.

Left nostril breathing
activates your Ida Nerve Ending, which keeps you calm and relaxed. Right
nostril breathing activates the Pingala Nerve Ending, which makes you feel
alert and active. If you want to sleep through the night, you can do left
nostril breathing until you’re sleepy.

Mindful
Breathing

Waking up at
ungodly hours when you’re still so tired can be frustrating. You want to sleep,
but your mind won’t let you. So, what do you do?

Mindful breathing is the practice of focusing on your breath. Instead of entertaining feelings of frustration or worrying about the consequences of not getting enough sleep, focus on your breathing. Inhale and exhale, paying attention to your breath as it enters your nostrils and moves toward your lungs. Observe the way your chest expands as you inhale and worry about nothing else. With this, you can go back to sleep in no time.

How well are you sleeping these days? And what do you do to overcome age-related sleep problems? Let us know in the comments below. Don’t forget to click “like,” and share this article with other women who might need it!

Stassi Schroeder’s White Cover Up Shirt

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The latter part of the season of Vanderpump Rules provides great prep for the next best season to come for all of us, Summer. Which is why Stassi Schroeder’s white cover up shirt popped up at the perfect time as it’s an absolute must have for any water adjacent event. She even proves how versatile it is by wearing it on tonight’s episode, in addition to Daug the lizard’s memorial pool party, which was pretty much the most “different” event I can think of in comparison to just about anything.

With my move to TX I have bumped up my summer clothing collection because the weather is warm most of the year there and  my apartment complex has a pool so most of my stock up needs to focus on swimwear. So mathematically speaking I need about 3-5 versions of this cover up because I just love it so much. It’s a lightweight, easy, breezy, and beautiful cover up, girl! Which deems it completely necessary for all of our summer soirées, no matter which side one you choose.

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Jess

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By the time salons open back up safely across the country, most of us with blonde hair are going to have pretty heavy, dark roots, shattering any possible ideas that we’re naturally that light. Lana Del Rey’s blonde hair proves she’s dealing with the opposite problem. Like Emma Stone, Leighton Meester, Amy Adams and Ariel Winter (to name a few), Del Rey is a natural blonde who dyes her hair darker for maximum impact. But during this time of physical distancing, she’s been forced to head back to her roots.

The singer posted a makeup-free selfie, seemingly just out of the shower, with her light hair piled up on top of her head in a bun. It’s how many of us are living during this time at home. “When you have no choice but to go back to being a blonde because Kevin Tracey and Jacob are gone and there’s nothing but lemons left to cover your roots for nine weeks,” she captioned the photo. It’s likely she’s talking about colorist Tracey Cunningham and her team at Mèche Salon in Los Angeles.

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We’re not sure if she’s making a joke about her dark hair fading back to its natural light roots and her desperation for color, or if she really did use lemons to lighten it. Using lemon juice can work to lighten strands, though it’s much less tricky on natural blondes who just want a boost. On dark, especially dyed dark, hair, it can look streaky and even take on an orange hue. Eeek. Removing hair dye is best left to the pros. Or, you can just let it wash out like Del Rey and look stunning while doing it.

Kelly Dodd’s Blue Silk Blouse on Instagram

Real Housewives of Orange County Instagram Fashion 2020

While Kelly Dodd is all about promoting how to get silky-smooth skin in this Instagram post, we are all about promoting how to get the silky-smooth, currently on sale blue blouse she’s wearing. Which thankfully only includes just a few basic steps (1. Click on the link down below, 2. Choose your size and add to bag, 3. Checkout) that’ll totally have you glowing like Kelly in no time.

Fashionably,

Faryn

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I was recently re-reading a little bit of Jane Austen during these restricted times and was immediately struck by some similarities with our current situation when it came to the topic of commencing and encouraging new relationships and all the communications that went with it.

For we, during the peak of the global pandemic, have all been forcibly transformed from our age of instant gratification to an early 19th-century world.

To illustrate, we do not go out to meet new people directly but, like our predecessors, rely on other types of communication. And although we hardly use snail mail, present age technology allows us to kindle a new relationship from afar and anticipate all it might bring before actually meeting.

Is this a bad thing? Possibly not, if you think about the way we get to know people.

Until recently, “dating” was usually a matter of meeting fairly quickly, then doing things together, such as having dinner, enjoying a coffee together, or a theatre trip. And if there was mutual attraction, it was soon full steam ahead into a relationship.

The Art of Correspondence

But compared to our counterparts from the 1800s, we know precious little about the people we start a relationship with.

In their day, letters would have been written, initially as introduction and then between the potential couple. And I do mean many letters. You only have to read a history of any celebrity of the age to find that hundreds of letters were left in their estate.

In these conversations, the new couple discussed anything and everything in great detail – especially their feelings pertaining to so many different subjects and issues of the day.

From the most mundane daily trivialities to events of great personal importance, everything was described in vivid detail, because there was no photography or video – let alone Internet – to replace verbal communication.

Strangely, the slow speed of communication gave people the time to really think about their ideas and to use carefully crafted language to express subtleties of emotion that are simply lost to us today. But perhaps they can now be rediscovered.

Of course, we do now have all the aids of technology to assist us, even if we are somewhat physically isolated for the moment, so most of us would be using email or social media to communicate.

The one principle that still applies in dating today is simple: it is better to get to know someone rather more deeply before starting out on a relationship.

The Old Normal or the New Normal?

Of course, one day our social restrictions will end, and we will return by stages to normal life. How rewarding would it be to then meet up with a man with whom you have been conversing and corresponding for several months about every topic under the sun?

It would be far from a blind date. In fact, it would probably be the most well-informed date that you will ever go on.

But we do also hear talk of the “new normal,” where a lingering uncertainty about the virus will remain, and we will feel uncomfortable meeting too many new people, particularly in public places. So dating at a distance could persist for somewhat longer.

This trend could transform the usage of social media from its current state. Presently, according to surveys, people have an average of about 150 friends, but less than a quarter of them are real life acquaintances, and only three or four of their contacts are strong, trusted, real world friends.

According to all published data, the vast majority of online friends remain as friends purely in the virtual world. But, if the norm for future dating involves beginning at a distance, we may reverse that social media trend and turn virtual friends into real friends and then into relationships.

And perhaps it will be better that way.

Are you happy to turn back the clock and meet people at a distance? Do you believe that we should rethink the way we meet new partners? Please join the conversation.