Happy Monday, {{first_Name | Sixty and Me sister}}!
We hope your weekend had at least a few easy, unhurried moments. As we settle into a new week, it’s often the practical things that come back into focus, especially money, and how we’re managing it day to day.
So today, we’re taking a calm, honest look at it. No pressure, no big overhauls – just small, thoughtful ways to make things feel a little clearer, a little steadier, and more in line with how you want to live right now.
🆕 What’s NEW on the BLOG Today
Becoming More Me: The Joy of Loving Yourself After 60
by Astrid Longhurst
I never thought that I would look forward to being 60 and yet as my 60th birthday drew closer, I felt an excitement that surprised me and took hold of me. I can’t fully explain it, but it was a sense of fully stepping into the woman that I was becoming...
Dental Hygiene 101: Let’s Talk About Gum and Bone Health
by Debi Sparks
In my last Dental Hygiene 101 article I focused on tooth decay and how to prevent it. Now let’s focus on the support system that holds our teeth in place, the periodontium. While tooth decay starts in toddlers and is a concern throughout life, the destruction...
A Good Death: One Woman’s Reflections
by Ann Richardson
I have been interested in death for a long time. I am not a morbid person or even a pessimistic one, but I like preparing myself for what is to come. My interest started 30 years ago when I became close friends with a very reflective young man dying from AIDS. We ended up...
💡Creative Ways to Stretch Every Dollar After 60
Planning for retirement can feel a bit like a long walk you’ve been on for years. Earlier on, the focus was simple: keep going, keep saving, keep building. But at this stage, the focus shifts. It’s less about how far you can go, and more about how steady and secure the path feels.
That’s where a small but important shift happens: from growing your savings to creating reliable income from what you already have.
Instead of focusing only on investment performance, it can help to ask a more practical question – How much of this money can I actually use, comfortably? That brings everyday decisions into clearer view.
Here are a few areas worth paying attention to:
Taxes (what you actually keep)
Healthcare costs
Inflation
Investments (keeping it steady)
Flexibility and “what if” thinking
None of this is about getting everything exactly right. It’s about making your money work in a way that feels steady, usable, and supportive of the life you’re living now.
🛑 Busting the Biggest Money Myth Women Hear in Their 60s
Myth
“I should have figured all of this out by now.”
Truth
Most people are still figuring it out at every age. Life changes, priorities shift, and what worked before doesn’t always fit moving forward. There’s nothing unusual about needing to adjust your approach in your 60s, 70s, and beyond.
Takeaway
You’re allowed to revisit, rethink, and reset. This isn’t about catching up, rather it’s about moving forward in a way that fits your life now.
🎥 Watch & Learn: Joyful Living Toolkit = 10 Transformational Practices
What if joy isn’t something we wait for – but something we practice?
If you are navigating change, transition, independence, or simply longing for a lighter way of living, we hope this conversation offers encouragement and practical tools you can use right away.
Let us know what you think!
📣 Wisdom Circle: The Challenge of Being “Enough”
There’s a feeling that can quietly follow us through life, the sense that we should have done more, been more, figured things out better by now. For many women over 60, that feeling can become more noticeable, not less.
It doesn’t come from just one place. Sometimes it’s shaped by the expectations we grew up with. Sometimes it’s the way the world tends to value youth over experience. And sometimes, it’s simply the habit of comparing ourselves to others, or even to who we used to be.
Life at this stage can also bring real changes, like retirement, shifting roles in the family, the loss of people we love. Those moments can leave a gap, and it’s easy to mistake that feeling for “not being enough.”
And then there’s the quieter layer, which is our own inner voice. The one that says we should be doing more with our time, managing things better, or somehow living up to a standard that was never clearly defined in the first place.
It helps to see these thoughts for what they are: patterns, not truths..
You don’t have to argue with them or push them away. Just noticing them, without immediately believing them, can soften their hold.
Wishing you a week that feels steady, manageable, and just a little bit lighter. 🌸
