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Wellness Wisdom Weekly - Your Guide to Living Well After 50
Wellness Wisdom Weekly - Your Guide to Living Well After 50
October 2025 Issue 27
October 2025 Issue 27
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There’s a moment every fall when you notice the shift. Dinner arrives while the sky is already fading to dusk. The porch lights flicker on earlier. The kids are playing outside in sweaters, but they come back in sooner because darkness has claimed the evening.
October Newsletters
October Newsletters
Issue 25 - The Season of Change: Embracing New Chapters October begins with visible change all around us—the turning of leaves, cooler air, shorter days. This first newsletter sets the stage for embracing change as a natural and healthy part of life.
Issue 26 - Harvesting What You Planted Mid-October brings harvest season imagery—farmers reaping what they sowed. This newsletter builds on the idea of change by reminding readers that their daily choices and actions yield results, good or bad.
Issue 27 - Finding Balance as the Days Shorten As fall deepens, days get shorter and nights longer. This newsletter shifts to the theme of balance—between work and rest, productivity and peace.
Issue 28 - Carrying Light Into the Darkness With Halloween approaching, the imagery of darkness and light fits perfectly. This final October newsletter ties everything together: change, harvest, balance, and now purpose—choosing to shine positivity for others.
Welcome to Issue 27 of Wellness Wisdom!
🥗 Finding Balance as the Days Shorten
🥗 Finding Balance as the Days Shorten
Opening Story: The Rhythm of Shorter Days
The Call to Balance
Why Balance Matters
Lessons from Nature
Practical Steps Toward Balance
A Story of Rebalancing
A Spiritual Perspective
Challenge for the Week
Closing Prayer
Final Encouragement
Fit After 50 Blueprint
🌅 Opening Story: The Rhythm of Shorter Days
🌅 Opening Story: The Rhythm of Shorter Days
There’s a moment every fall when you notice the shift. Dinner arrives while the sky is already fading to dusk. The porch lights flicker on earlier. The kids are playing outside in sweaters, but they come back in sooner because darkness has claimed the evening.
When I was growing up in Minnesota, I remember sitting at the table with my for older brothers realizing the difference between July and October. In summer, the light lingered until nearly 9:00 PM. By fall, it seemed like the day was over just as it was beginning. At first, it felt unfair. But then I realized: nature was teaching me something about balance.
Life isn’t always about long days and constant motion. Sometimes, it’s about shorter rhythms, slower evenings, and making room for rest.
⚖️ The Call to Balance
⚖️ The Call to Balance
Balance is one of the hardest things to achieve in our modern world. We race from one task to the next, juggling work, family, commitments, and the endless notifications on our phones. But without balance, even the strongest among us burn out.
Ecclesiastes 3:1 reminds us: “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.”
If there’s a time for everything, that means there is a time to work and a time to rest, a time to pour out and a time to refill, a time to say yes and a time to say no.
Finding balance is not about perfection—it’s about wisdom. It’s learning to align our time and energy with what truly matters, so that we don’t lose ourselves in the noise of what doesn’t.
🌻 Why Balance Matters
🌻 Why Balance Matters
For Your Health: A body pushed too hard without rest breaks down. Sleep, nutrition, and movement must work together, not in competition.
For Your Mind: Constant stimulation leads to mental clutter. Balance gives your brain room to breathe, focus, and create.
For Your Relationships: If you’re always distracted or exhausted, your loved ones receive your leftovers instead of your best. Balance allows for presence.
For Your Soul: God designed us to pause. The Sabbath is a rhythm of rest built into creation itself. Balance keeps us spiritually grounded.
When balance is missing, we notice it everywhere. Our bodies ache, our tempers flare, our patience shortens, and our joy fades.
🌙 Lessons from Nature
🌙 Lessons from Nature
The shortening days of October remind us that nature lives in cycles of balance. The earth tilts, the light lessens, and the world prepares for winter’s stillness. Plants slow their growth. Animals store food and prepare for hibernation. Even the trees let go of their leaves to conserve energy.
If creation itself respects balance, how much more should we?
Instead of resenting the early evenings, what if we embraced them as an invitation? An invitation to slow down, gather around the table, light a candle, read a book, or talk with loved ones without rushing.
Balance isn’t a restriction—it’s a gift.
🌿 Practical Steps Toward Balance
🌿 Practical Steps Toward Balance
Here are three simple ways you can bring balance into your life this week:
1. Create a Wind-Down Ritual.
• After dinner, avoid screens for at least 30 minutes.
• Try a warm cup of tea, journaling, prayer, or reading.
• Signal to your body and mind that the day is closing.
2. Protect Your Boundaries.
• Say no to one thing this week that drains you unnecessarily.
• Replace it with something that restores you.
3. Make Room for Stillness.
• Spend 10 minutes each day in quiet reflection.
• No phone, no distractions—just breathing, thinking, or praying.
Balance doesn’t happen by accident. It’s built through small, intentional choices.
🌞 A Story of Rebalancing
🌞 A Story of Rebalancing
I once knew a man who prided himself on productivity. He worked long hours, answered emails late at night, and said yes to every request. On the outside, he seemed unstoppable. On the inside, he was unraveling. His health suffered, his family felt his absence, and his joy disappeared.
It wasn’t until he experienced a health scare that he reevaluated his life. Slowly, he began to introduce balance—setting work boundaries, exercising daily, eating healthier, and making time for family.
Within months, the change was visible. He looked healthier, laughed more, and discovered renewed energy. Balance didn’t make him less successful; it made him sustainable.
Sometimes, losing balance is what reminds us how desperately we need it.
🕊 A Spiritual Perspective
🕊 A Spiritual Perspective
Jesus modeled balance better than anyone. He healed the sick, taught the crowds, and carried immense responsibility. Yet often, Scripture tells us, He withdrew to quiet places to pray (Luke 5:16).
If the Son of God needed moments of solitude and rest, how much more do we?
Balance is not weakness. It’s obedience. It’s acknowledging that we are not machines, but people created for rhythm—work and rest, giving and receiving, activity and peace.
Psalm 23 paints a picture of God as a Shepherd who “makes me lie down in green pastures” and “leads me beside quiet waters.”
Balance is part of His care for us.
💡 A Challenge for the Week
💡 A Challenge for the Week
This week, I invite you to do the following:
1. Choose One Area of Life That Feels Unbalanced. Maybe it’s work hours, eating habits, or time spent with family. Write it down.
2. Take One Small Step to Restore Balance. For example, leave work 30 minutes earlier one day, prepare a healthy dinner, or plan a walk with a loved one.
3. Reflect Each Evening. Ask yourself: Did my choices today bring me closer to balance or further away?
🙏 Closing Prayer
🙏 Closing Prayer
Father, thank You for the gift of balance. As the days shorten and the nights lengthen, remind us to honor the rhythms You designed for us. Help us to release what drains us and to embrace what restores us. Teach us to protect time for rest, for loved ones, and for quiet moments in Your presence. May we live not in constant hurry, but in steady peace. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
✨ Final Encouragement
✨ Final Encouragement
As October deepens, the shortened days remind us: life isn’t about endless daylight. It’s about balance—between light and dark, work and rest, giving and receiving.
Don’t resent the early evenings. Let them become your reminder to slow down, savor, and create space for what matters most.
Balance isn’t just good for your health—it’s essential for your soul.
Fit After 50 Blueprint
Fit After 50 Blueprint
If you’re not exercising yet, now’s a good time to start. Because it’s never too late to build strength, or protect what matters most. If you still have questions about how to get started, check out our Fit After 50 Blueprint.
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I love the video on this one.
I will try dinking water every hourr like I am trying to go 250 steps each hour.. Encouraging idea.
This is great information. I love the new layout. I cannot wait for the next edition!!!
Thanks Riaan.
Great article!