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Topics I Talk About:

Letting Go of the Myths of Aging and Defining our Lives with a Strong Purpose

Self-care in the Second Half of Life

Self-Acceptance in the Second Half of Life

Finding Peace with our Regrets

Letting Go of Anger and Working with Forgiveness

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Short Bio

Nancy Candea is a psychotherapist, wellness coach, and author. In all her work, including being an internationally known yoga therapist, she helps women make peace with their past, find self-acceptance, and step wholeheartedly into their purpose. Nancy, who specializes in yoga therapy for trauma, addiction, and chronic pain, helps women in the second half of life to value the emotional intelligence and courage they have learned from picking themselves up over and over. She encourages women to do the work to let go of rage and regrets to bring the power of the present moment to their interactions. She is the founder and director of the non-profit Living Boldly Project. Check out her freebies and offerings that help women disrupt depression and anxiety with lifestyle choices, and feel more connected with their life’s path at NancyCandea.com.

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Long Bio

Nancy Candea is a psychoanalyst, wellness coach, and author. Nancy worked as a yoga therapist who specializes in trauma, addiction, and chronic pain. She focuses on the challenges of women in the second half of life helping them make peace with their past, find self-acceptance, and step wholeheartedly into their purpose. She has brought healing to women in shelters, to elite athletes, and to seven-figure households in her 35 years of teaching. Her work and impact with women is evident in the response that she has been getting in prominent online journals and the engagement in her social media. Her writing on health and healing in the second half of life has appeared in Elephant Journal (Editors Pick, January 2022), Tiny Buddha, Purpose Fairy, and other publications.

She founded Yoga Impact, a non-profit that brings yoga into communities that lack wellness resources. Nancy, who specializes in yoga therapy for trauma, addiction, and chronic pain, has led trainings and retreats in Greece, Uganda, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, upcountry Hawaii, Detroit, and Newark. She created 2017's social justice summit on the Navajo Nation in Arizona. With her knowledge of ancient practices of mindfulness and movement, tempered by modern physiology, she has brought new life to wounded veterans in New Jersey Veterans Administration hospitals, and to elite athletes in Boulder, Colorado—and everyone in between. Nancy helps all her clients value their life experiences, organize their self-care, and reframe what getting older looks like.

Nancy is currently heading up the Living Boldly (Midlife & Beyond) Project. This nonprofit project helps women, and those who work with women, understand ageism affects women and teaches about healthy longevity.

A native Detroiter, Nancy lived in rural Hawaii for 18 years, where she learned to swing a machete to take down her banana trees, 12-foot-high castor bean plants, and sugar cane. She is co-designer of the cabinetry and landscaping at Underhill, the earth roof stone home that her third husband, Jim, designed and built himself. At the age of 60, Nancy can swing a pickaxe, build stone walls, live through winters with hardly any heat and only an outdoor privy, and hang off the edge of the roof to see the birds nested in the beams, proving to herself that getting older doesn’t mean declining.

A retired dancer, Nancy’s service-based dance business won her numerous grants. She was awarded an NEA grant for Life of a Star, her aerial dance, live-music production at the Kahilu Theater in Waimea, Hawaii (2006). To create this show, she worked with the Keck Observatory and interviewed some of the top specialists in star behavior.

Nancy’s call is for women to live the second half of their lives confidently, utilizing the gifts and powerful knowledge they have gained.

Nancy is a mother of two daughters and a grandmother. She lives in Rockaway, New Jersey with her husband, the actor James Michael Reilly. When she is not working, she is writing, building, landscaping, drawing, basket-making, and sitting on the stone steps of Underhill looking at the sunrise.