All Expert Voices

Let our editorial team at ThirdAge collectively share their expertise with you. Between us, we have years of experience in all of our topics, including Health & Wellness, Relationships & Sex, Money & Work, Beauty & Style, Leisure & Passions, and more!

Abandonment, Relationships, Grief

Susan Anderson is a psychotherapist who has devoted more than 25 years of clinical experience and research to working with the victims of abandonment trauma, grief and heartbreak. She is an expert on relationships, personal growth, and helping people overcome patterns of self-sabotage. She is the author of "The Journey From Abandonment to Healing" (Penguin, 2000), "Black Swan: 12 Lessons of Abandonment Recovery" (Rock Foundations Press, 2003), and "The Journey From Heartbreak to Connection" (Penguin, 2003).

Tantric Sex, Tantric Health, Sex

“I’m passionate about sexuality that takes you to a higher mental state of awareness, a higher physical state of arousal and excitement and a higher ‘love’ state that takes you deeper into intimacy and knowledge of self and other. Then self and other become ‘one’ and everything we do, say, believe in and put forth in the world becomes open and universal.

Science is recognizing the intersections between sexuality, mindfulness practices, Tantric techniques, touch, healthy living, spiritual essence and the ties between friends and family as sources for attaining great health, wellbeing, intimacy, playfulness, sexual adventure and, well, just about everything.

Male Menopause, Male Health, Gender Depression

Jed is Director of the MenAlive, a health program that helps men live long and well. Though focused on men’s health, MenAlive is also for women who care about the health of the men in their lives. Since its inception in 1992, Jed has been on the Board of Advisors of the Men’s Health Network. He is also a member of the International Society for the Study of the Aging Male and serves as a member of the International Scientific Board of the World Congress on Men’s Health.

Personal Growth

As America's Dream Coach®, Marcia Wieder travels the world as an ambassador for making dreams real. She's known for giving inspiring and moving talks to notable companies such as AT&T, The Gap and American Express. In addition to being a charismatic speaker, she's the renowned author of three books dedicated to achieving your dreams: "Making Your Dreams Come True," "Life Is But a Dream," and "Doing Less and Having More." She's also a syndicated columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, in which she urges readers to take The Great Dream Challenge -- a call to arms for dreamers from all walks of life.

Love and Romance, Nutrition

Bob's career has ranged from being Senior White House Correspondent for CNN to the host of the highly rated CNBC show "Real Personal," a nightly look at America's attitudes on sexuality and relationships. He earned his Ph.D in Clinical Sexology at The Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in San Francisco. Susan has written for a variety of magazines on food related topics, and is currently researching and writing the cultural history of weight loss in America. She graduated from Hunter College at the age of nineteen with honors in psychology, and has a master's degree in Food Studies from New York University.

Nutrition

Thousands of faithful listeners tune in to hear Dr. Mitchell's podcast on WDBO.com, her radio segments on Orlando's AM580 WDBO News-Talk radio and read her blog on ThirdAge.com. Dr. Susan Mitchell is a candid and energetic advocate of nutrition education. Her innovative approach to eating well and feeling better is changing lifestyles at work and in homes across the country.

Elder Care, Caregiving, Alzheimer's

Jacqueline Marcell was so compelled by being the sole caregiver to her aggressive elderly father and sweet but ailing mother (both with early Alzheimer’s not properly diagnosed for over a year), that once she solved the crisis medically and behaviorally, she gave up her stalled career as a television executive to become an advocate for eldercare awareness and reform. She is the author of the bestselling book Elder Rage; host of the Coping With Caregiving radio program, and a respected International Speaker.

Dating, Love and Romance

For the past 10 years, Love Coach Rinatta Paries has been teaching singles and people in relationships to attract and keep true love. She is a graduate of Coach University and a certified Master Coach by the International Coach Federation. Happily married, Rinatta lives with her husband, son and two cats in Vancouver, Washington. You can visit her at www.WhatItTakes.com.

Caregiving

Formerly on the staff of National Public Radio, Connie Goldman is an award-winning radio producer and reporter who currently devotes herself to programs and projects exclusively concerned with issues and images of aging in America.

Starting/Managing a Business, Learning

A seasoned entrepreneur, Sharon is CEO of ThirdAge Inc. Earlier she was president of Contempo Colours, a $50 million manufacturer of partyware, which was preceded by her founding of Peacock Papers, an innovative manufacturer of stationery and contemporary gifts. Peacock's product line featured motivational and celebratory messages, many around milestone aging. Prior to her 14-year career in consumer products, she spent 12 years in the specialty shopping center development industry, where she was highly regarded as a pioneer.

Exercise and Fitness, Anti Aging

Dr. Anderson holds a Ph.D. in Natural Health and a Doctorate of Naturopathy with an emphasis in Aromatherapy. She is the developer and owner of Kosmos Education, an education company providing continuing education credits to health and fitness professionals. She has written numerous courses in the area of mind-body-spirit integration, natural health, and its application to traditional health and fitness practices.

She also has a private practice in Los Angeles, where she specializes in nutrition, herbology, anti-aging, aromatherapy, eating disorders, addictions and behavior modification. An an internationally registered Yoga Alliance instructor, she teaches yoga therapy, cycling and her anti-aging workout.

Astrology, Horoscope

Victoria Bazeley has studied astrology for almost 40 years and has specialized in natal chart interpretation for more than 20 years. She pioneered new techniques in the astrological interpretation of life stages and is currently working on a book about applying them to the interpretation of horoscopes and natal charts. She is particularly interested in the predictable astrological crises of midlife, and many of her clients seek advice for dealing with those crises.

Aging Well

Pat Samples, M.A., M.F.A., is an international speaker, transformational educator and writer who champions a radical new understanding of the aging body and its creative wisdom. Her new book, The Secret Wisdom of a Woman's Body: Freeing Yourself to Live Passionately and Age Fearlessly, has been called "what our generation wants to read" by AARP's magazine. It is a guide to loving our body and reaping wisdom from its vast library of stories as we age. She is also the author of "Body Odyssey: Lessons from the Bones and Belly," a memoir and guide celebrating our aging bodies as magnificent creative resources brimming with emotional and spiritual wisdom.

Relationships, Marriage, Caregiving

Dr. Karen Sherman, a licensed psychologist in New York, has been in private practice for over 20 years. Her focus is relationships/marriage and helping people achieve their greatest potential. Karen is the author of Marriage Magic! Find It, Keep It, and Make It Last (Kardal, 2008) and Mindfulness and The Art of Choice: Transform Your Life (Loving Healing Press, 2008) which focuses on enabling people to let go of old reactive patterns to empower their own choices. She was also a contributor to "Self-Improvement 101, Vol. 2," writing a chapter about overcoming stress.

Money, Finance

Paul B. Brown is Third Age's personal finance expert. A former editor and writer for Business Week, Financial World, Forbes and Inc. Paul is the author (or co-author) of numerous best-sellers, including Customers for Life, written with Carl Sewell, which has been translated into 18 languages and has sold more than 1 million copies worldwide to date.

He is a regular contributor to the New York Times where he created the What's Offline column for paper and still does the Off-the-Shelf column for the paper and writes Tool Kit for NewYorkTimes.com.

Travel

Kathy Moyer Dragon, CEO TravelDragon Inc. Founder and Owner of The Dragon's Path, ActiveWomen.com, Dragon Consulting Inc has spent the past two decades in the center of the active/experiential travel industry. Having researched, designed, marketed, sold and then personally escorted and facilitated the travel experiences of over 3000 Boomers on small group trips around the globe, Kathy has developed frontline experience that few marketing experts in the world can match.

Alzheimer's

Follow the progress of research, treatment, support strategies, and prevention with ThirdAge.com's resident expert on Alzheimer's. Peter J. Whitehouse, MD, PhD is Professor of Neurology as well as former Professor of Cognitive Science, Psychiatry, Neuroscience, Psychology, Nursing, Organizational Behavior, Bioethics and History. He received his undergraduate degree from Brown University and MD-PhD (Psychology) from The Johns Hopkins University (with field work at Harvard and Boston Universities), followed by a Fellowship in Neuroscience and Psychiatry and a faculty appointment at Hopkins.