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Each fall, a sudden symphony, as a gaggle of estate planning professionals in V-formation transit National Estate Planning Awareness Week (NEPAW) and trumpet the accessibility of estate planning, Oct. 19-25. Estate planning provides the opportunity to reflect on what we give versus what we leave behind. Giving implies active, intentional action. You can't wing it. Planning with a giving mindset is a choice to demonstrate your family values, acknowledge a stroke of fortune, or fledge a lifelong p...
Grief is not a problem to be solved. It is the natural response to losing someone we love, and it arrives whether we invite it or not. Yet many of us treat it as something to get through quickly, or worse, to avoid altogether. We stay busy. We tell ourselves we are fine. The trouble is that grief does not disappear when it is ignored. It waits. Unspoken sorrow often surfaces months or years later as restlessness, exhaustion, irritability, or a sadness with no clear source. Avoiding grief does not make it smaller. It only delays the work. Grief...
The plane touches down, your bag rounds the carousel, and you drive home feeling nothing worse than a little stiff. Then, ten days later, one of your calves is swollen, warm, and aching, and you can't for the life of you figure out why. That's the sneaky thing about a blood clot. When it shows up at all, that's often how it does it: quietly, days after the fact. And here's the part that surprises most people: about half of those with a deep vein thrombosis (doctors call it DVT) never feel a...
Getting up out of a chair, carrying groceries, or picking up your grandchild are regular activities that can become challenging as we age. But they don’t have to be—if you incorporate strength training into your routine. Why strength train? As we age, muscular strength decreases so it’s essential to train your muscles to keep being able to do the activities you need or want to do. Getting up out of a chair, getting up from the ground, reaching overhead, squatting, even keeping good posture—all of it can keep you going and prevent injury....
