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What if aging isn’t decline but the door to becoming who you were meant to be? That’s the heart of our conversation with educator and author Suzanne Eden, who at 87 shares a candid, hard-won perspective on health, purpose, and wholeness. We unpack the critical difference between curing and healing, why trauma and lifelong pressure can show up as physical illness, and how a purely biomedical approach often misses the deeper work that restores integrity to the whole self. 

 In an era where aging is often viewed with apprehension and decline seems inevitable, Dr. Susanne T. Eden offers a radically different perspective. “Healing from the Inside: Living Fully as You Age” is not just another wellness guide—it’s an inspiring manifesto for reclaiming the senior years as a time of profound transformation and fulfillment.  

 “Healing from the Inside” is a generous gift from someone who has walked through the fire of chronic illness and emerged with hard-won wisdom and genuine hope. It’s an essential roadmap for those ready to embrace aging not as an ending, but as a profound new beginning. Eden’s message is clear: You were meant to live with energy and hope, and it’s never too late to reclaim your health and joy in life. 

Garth Thomas 

 Actually, You Can Teach an Old Dog New Tricks – Living Fully as You Age 

 How unfortunate to think that, once you find the first grey hair, life is all downhill. But who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks? This adage is the kind of thinking that got us where we are today — of thinking that the later decades are only about looking at life in the rearview mirror.

It’s more hopeful, and fulfilling, to embrace the next season of life not as a time of decline, but of possibility.

For many of us, we’ve been defined by what we do, and our job has provided the structure. But when retirement gives us newfound freedom, we may feel adrift.

 You’ve carried your pain long enough. Move forward with courage and self-compassion, knowing that it’s never too late to heal and enjoy a level of fulfillment beyond your imagination.

Healing may seem to be nothing more than a means of getting rid of pain and restoring physical health. A scab forms over a cut, or the muscles and tissues reconnect after knee surgery. 

Returning to physical health is one aspect of healing, but as important as physical healing is, you can’t be fully healed if you ignore inner wounds. The knee might bend again and only a scar remains from the cut, but this is no guarantee that you’ll feel better. 

The senior years offered me the best chance I had to rid myself of the burden of past trauma and old ways of thinking, so I could focus on healing my body and mind. When I turned 60, I had no plans to slow down. I was passionate about my career and, although diagnosed with diabetes and polymyalgia rheumatica, maintained a hectic work schedule.

I had been plagued my whole adult life with chronic health issues, but the determination to make my mark compelled me to accept each new advancement and opportunity. Finally, my body, in its wisdom, said, “Enough!”