Creative Outlets for Midlife Women Cooped up During Coronavirus

Crazy times we’re living in, right? Whoudathunk that in 2020 the world would be damn near living out “Contagion,” “Outbreak,” and little bit of “Shaun of the Dead” thrown in for good measure.

I don’t want to overplay the coronavirus or Covid-19 because, well . . . we see and hear enough about it across the airwaves every damn day. Instead, I’m turning my attention to midlife women, and asking the question, “Do you feel caught in the middle?”

Follow-up question: “Are you taking care of yourself?”

“Don’t think of introversion as something that needs to be cured… spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you’re supposed to.” ~Susan Cain

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This special episode of “Midlife-A-Go-Go the podcast!” is dedicated to midlife women the world over who need a respite, need to take a break, and need to keep from strangling everyone in the house. I’m not the definitive expert on unexpected leisure time, but I do have one or two (or a dozen or so) ways that you can occupy yourself as you occupy your home during this weirdly unsettling pandemic.

Be well, ladies.

“Our culture made a virtue of living only as extroverts. We discouraged the inner journey, the quest for a center. So we lost our center and have to find it again.” ~Anaïs Nin

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Resources Mentioned on the Show:

Exercise

Deep Breathing Exercises

Learn a New Language

Duolingo
Babbel
Learn A Language
Busuu
Open Culture
Rosetta Stone offers 3 free months of courses, but this one’s for students

Facial / Facial Massage Resources

Learn Something New

Netflix’s Tiger King

Quarantini Recipes [Note: Do NOT mix Emergen-C with alcohol]

Virtual Visits

Apple’s FaceTime
Zoom
Google Hangouts
Skype
Netflix Party
Houseparty App NOTE: As of 3/30/20, users have reported that this app has been hacked on mobile and desktop versions. Because of this, I have decided to omit linking to this app from the list. If you decide to pursue Houseparty, do so at your own risk.
Virtual tours
- List of Museum Tours from the Smithsonian
- The Louvre
- The Vatican
- Virtual Dive with the National Marine Sanctuaries
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
- Google Arts & Culture
Crisis Text Line
Ted Talks

“Any one of us can pick up a phone and call to see how people are doing and what they might need. Not only will helping others potentially help them, but it can help us to still feel connected as well.” ~Julianne Holt-Lunstad

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“Midlife-A-Go-Go the podcast!” is hosted by Valerie Albarda

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Music Credits:
“My Street” by Lee Rosevere Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/)

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