The days of 50-year-old women fading into the background are long over. Rather, we are embracing life and what it throws at us. Life is full and fantastic; we are climbing career ladders, joining gyms and eating healthier than we have ever eaten before.  Basically woman of my generation know what they want and how to go after it.

Generally speaking we no longer have to live with the fear of pregnancy, we have our menopausal hormones under control and the world of freedom is open to us. We are confident and comfortable in our own skin, smart and self-secure. Women over 50 know who they are, where they are going and frankly, they know that 50 is amazing.

Here are five tips to help you navigate 50 and the changes it brings, hopefully it will help you embrace your life at the age of 50, to age gracefully and beautifully.

#1. Find your fitness

50 is the new 40, so make time for you. Exercise is one of the keys to long-term health and vitality, and can contribute greatly to a healthy lifestyle. If you have put your fitness on the back-burner, now is the time to reengage with it. For me, the daily act of attaching a Fitbit to my arm, starting my own beautiful relationship with my body, being comfortable in my own skin, leads on to everything else.

Here is another reason that might just motivate you. Researchers in Sweden surveyed 793 women who had reached natural menopause, 5% of those who exercised more than 2 hours a week had severe hot flashes, compared with 14 to 16% of those who did few or no weekly workouts. That is a lot of women dodging hot flushes, naturally.

#2.  Focus on shifting your focus!

Boost your self-esteem by shifting the focus from your flaws to your attributes. After having babies, stretch marks, cellulite and other lumps and bumps become the normal - imperfections don't matter. The truth of the matter is men just don’t care! Show your confidence, we women over 50 know who we are; we know our own values and what it takes to be our best self.

#3.  Food-as-medicine

Add superfoods to your daily supplement regime.

Superfoods, if consumed regularly can have a wonderful rejuvenating effect on your skin - helping you look and feel younger. Besides this effect, they are vibrant, nutritionally dense foods packed with highly nourishing properties that can help slow down aging; not only of the skin but also of many vital organs in your body. The emphasis is on the regularity of the consumption - consider them beauty bombs.

#4 Accidental overload

The subject of sex is nothing new in the world of food-as-medicine. What goes on in the bedroom can sometimes be directly affected by what occurs in the kitchen - often in a detrimental way (who feels sexy after a meal of pizza?).  However, certain superfoods can boost your vitality in more ways than one, and can effectively put more sizzle between the sheets… so to speak!

#5.  Balance those hormones.   

If I am honest, on more than one occasion I have blamed my hormones for something! They are largely responsible for keeping your energy up, your weight down, your hot flashes under control, your mood and how much sex we want.

However hormone imbalances go way beyond menopause and hot flushes.

Weight gain, fatigue, insomnia, depression and mood swings can all be associated with hormonal imbalance and left untreated, hormonal imbalances can lead to diseases like cancer and diabetes.