3 Keys to Enhancing Your Love Life After Retirement
Andrea Brandt2018-02-14T15:11:19+00:00Technically, retirement means the end of one’s career. But anyone who’s retired or is close to retiring knows that that’s only the half of it. To some, [...]
Mindful Aging Interview with Andrea – Plenty Magazine
Andrea Brandt2018-01-30T11:29:32+00:00Typically, people approach aging in one of two ways: One, they see getting older as a state of inevitable decline, or, two, they refuse to accept that [...]
Five Ways to Keep Your Brain Fit as You Age
Andrea Brandt2018-01-15T13:22:17+00:00A psychotherapist on mindful aging and the brain’s life-long plasticity. When it comes to the topic of aging, Dr. Andrea Brandt, Ph.D., MFT has more than just [...]
It’s a Family Thing: When Passive-Aggressiveness Is Passed On
Andrea Brandt2018-05-22T09:20:39+00:00“I hope I never turn into my mother,” you say. “You sound just like your father,” you’re told. If one or both of your caregivers was passive-aggressive, [...]
Keep it Juicy with Helen Mitternight
Andrea Brandt2018-01-10T12:33:53+00:00PODCAST - There's good news and bad news. The bad news is…we’re all going to die. The good news? Well, Dr. Andrea Brandt says it’s not about the [...]
How to Live a Regret-Free Life
Andrea Brandt2018-02-14T15:07:49+00:00What is the difference between a mistake and a learning experience? Perspective. When we see mistakes as learning experiences, regret transforms from a painful emotion into a [...]
9 Health Experts Reveal How They Stick to Their Resolutions
Andrea Brandt2018-01-30T13:33:08+00:004. Think Beyond Fixing a Problem Set your sights higher than mere solutions to problems, and focus on what you really want, says Andrea Brandt, Ph.D., a [...]
Fearless Fabulous You –
Andrea Brandt2017-12-22T11:48:28+00:00PODCAST - Three words to live by to stay vibrant and young in spirit: Mindfulness, Passion, and Purpose. World-renowned psychotherapist, Andrea Brant PhD, MFT, author of "Mindful [...]
NetGalley REVIEW
Andrea Brandt2017-12-20T15:01:41+00:00Book Review - "Aging... it's something we're all doing, yet never talk about. After all, who wants to contemplate their own mortality? This book was a very [...]
Your years beyond middle age can be the most fulfilling …
Andrea Brandt2017-12-20T15:06:00+00:00BOOK INTERVIEW - How we age after 50 is up to us. Dr. Brandt shares how it can be as fulfilling and joyful as we want it [...]
Realistic Positivity
Andrea Brandt2017-12-11T10:06:46+00:00BOOK INTERVIEW - Some people seem to be authentically positive—optimistic, uplifting to be around, at peace with themselves—even though they may have, like all of us, lived [...]
7 Steps to Making Love Last in Your Later Years
Andrea Brandt2017-12-04T15:07:57+00:00There are few things more heart-warming than seeing a sweet-looking couple in their 90s holding hands and laughing together in a park, on an airplane, or standing [...]
A Good Apology Is Hard to Find
Andrea Brandt2018-02-14T15:05:29+00:00Apologies have been in the news a lot lately — both genuine apologies and refusals to apologize. Every day, women and men come forward to name those [...]
Increasing Happiness After 50
Andrea Brandt2017-12-11T10:33:37+00:00PODCAST - Don’t let the ominous perception of “aging” – a lack of purpose, feeling irrelevant and under-used, having nothing to do – take control of you [...]
Mindful Aging: Q & A with Dr. Andrea Brandt
Andrea Brandt2017-11-20T11:22:41+00:00BOOK INTERVIEW - “That we age is inevitable. How we age is largely up to us.” At “77 glorious years old,” psychotherapist, speaker and author, Dr. Andrea [...]
How Relationships with Parents and Children Change as We Age
Andrea Brandt2017-11-17T11:26:02+00:00It’s a universal truth that we take things for granted, especially when we’re young. Even though we know that it’s not logical, a part of us believes [...]
Interview: Tips to avoid the onset of Alzheimer’s
Andrea Brandt2017-11-17T11:22:53+00:00According to psychotherapist Dr. Andrea Brandt, our brains remain “plastic” — able to change and make new connections — throughout life. Understanding this feeds into some Alzheimer’s [...]
Aging Gracefully
Andrea Brandt2017-11-06T14:56:35+00:00PODCAST - We’re often told as we get older things are going to change. We’re going to feel worse, and it’s just part of aging. What if [...]
Mindful Aging – The Book Brigade talks to psychotherapist Andrea Brandt
Andrea Brandt2017-11-20T11:17:59+00:00BOOK INTERVIEW - Forget all those TV commercial for arthritis and sexual dysfunction; they’re way behind the emerging mindset. Conventional approaches to aging highlight the negative and [...]
Dealing with Passive-Aggressives Without Losing Your Mind
Andrea Brandt2018-02-14T15:02:42+00:00Most of us have at least one passive-aggressive person in our life. Maybe it’s a mother who nitpicks and criticizes everything we do, or a co-worker who [...]
You can change how you age, author says
Andrea Brandt2017-11-20T11:25:12+00:00BOOK INTERVIEW - Dr. Andrea Brandt, a featured editor for Psychology Today magazine and frequent media expert, is the author of a new book, Mindful Aging. Dr. [...]
5 Strategies to Get Over the Fears Holding You Back
Andrea Brandt2017-11-08T13:44:04+00:00How often do you feel like you are your own worst enemy? You frequently may find that what stands between you and the life of your dreams [...]
Mindful Aging: The Secrets To Growing Happier As You Grow Older
Andrea Brandt2017-11-20T11:25:19+00:00BOOK INTERVIEW - “Aging means a decline in health and happiness.” “Aging means having to back out of social groups and the things that bring us joy.” [...]
Book Review: “Mindful Aging: Embracing Your Life after 50 to Find Fulfillment, Purpose, and Joy”
Andrea Brandt2017-11-20T11:29:19+00:00Book Review - Aging is inevitable. “How we age is largely up to us,” writes psychologist and author Dr. Andrea Brandt in “Mindful Aging: Embracing Your Life [...]
Author Dr. Andrea Brandt is Today’s Honoree
Andrea Brandt2017-11-20T11:28:29+00:00Book Review - Don’t let the ominous perception of “aging” – a lack of purpose, feeling irrelevant and under-used, having nothing to do – take control of [...]
3 Secrets – How to Keep Your Brain Fit as You Age
Andrea Brandt2017-11-08T13:28:25+00:00Through new research and scientific studies, we now know that our brains remain “plastic” — able to change and make new connections — throughout life. We are [...]
Business for Breakfast
Andrea Brandt2017-10-30T12:14:53+00:00PODCAST - Psychotherapist Dr. Andrea Brandt talked about aging in the 21st Century. (Entire show) LISTEN HERE
7 Points for Feeling Your Feelings So You Can Fully Engage with Life
Andrea Brandt2017-10-25T14:09:45+00:00PODCAST - Listen as Dr. Andrea Brandt joins Dr. Pamela Peeke to get the most out of the time you have. Listen Here
Psych Up Live – Mindful Aging: A Radically Different Outlook for Embracing Life
Andrea Brandt2017-10-30T12:09:38+00:00PODCAST - In this episode Dr. Andrea Brandt, psychologist and author draws upon her latest book, Mindful Aging: Embracing Your Life After 50 to Find Fulfillment, Purpose, [...]
Expert Shares Three Methods for Keeping Your Brain Fit as You Age
Andrea Brandt2017-11-08T13:17:09+00:00It wasn't too long ago that scientists believed our brains stopped developing after the first years of life. After we hit a certain age, they thought our [...]