50. Your Easy Aging Year with Hetty Hellriegel

About this episode

Rachel McAlpine shares her experiences and insights from her Easy Aging Year, discussing lifestyle habits that promote a positive outlook on aging.

Don't miss this episode if you think you might be old one day! At 75 I had an Easy Aging Year, and started 12 tiny lifestyle habits. I gained clarity, confidence and optimism about old age. So can you. I'm the guest this time! My host Hetty Hellriegel asks me some personal questions. Why am I so fixated on the phenomenon of aging? How long do I expect to live? Why was my Boot Camp for the Bonus Years not a boot camp? What is an easy aging year and how can you have one yourself? The effects of my easy aging year are with me still. I can still develop new habits to deal with the age-related changes that affect us all. I am alert to the good things about old age as well as the troubles that sneak up on you. For years I assumed my YEAY! programme was too geeky for most people, but now it's time to share it. How to get YEAY: a little workbook for Your Easy Aging Year Download the 2026 edition of YEAY, now tested and revised, free

People in this episode

Host: Hetty Hellriegel

Topics covered

• aging
• lifestyle habits
• confidence
• optimism
• self-improvement

Keywords

• aging
• lifestyle habits
• confidence
• optimism
• self-improvement
• YEAY
• Boot Camp for the Bonus Years

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