Kristen Coffield

Kristen Coffield Founder of Active Grandparenting™ and The Culinary Cure™. This page is for women over 50 ready to to live younger longer and better.

Get my best tools for avoiding feeling old and embrace feeling alive at every age! I am an Author, Educator, and Culinary Disruptor. Disrupting food patterns and habits to create lives and bodies that love us back!

08/10/2026

💙 Grandparenting doesn’t come with a manual — until now.

📖 💙 Active Grandparenting is your 330-page guide to showing up with more energy, less stress, and way more joy in this wonderful chapter.

💙Written for active agers and modern grandparents, like us, ready to do this the fun way.

➡️ Pre-order now — visit https://activegrandparenting.com/active-grandparenting-book/

✅ and tell me where you are in your Grandparenting journey. We are grandparents of 3, long distance and soon to be bi-coastal grandparents. You?

Stay Strong,
Kristen 🍋💦💪

We spend so much time thinking of self-care as something indulgent — a spa day, a bubble bath, a slow morning. And those...
08/08/2026

We spend so much time thinking of self-care as something indulgent — a spa day, a bubble bath, a slow morning. And those things are lovely.

But the deepest form of self-care is the kind that keeps you here, strong, and present for the long haul.

Do all of it. You're worth it. They're worth it. 💙

💬 Type GRANDBABY in the comments to receive my FREE guide to welcoming a new grandbaby.

👇 What does self-care look like for you right now?

Stay Strong,
Kristen 🍋💦💪

08/07/2026

➡️ Active Grandparenting is physical!

💙We talk endlessly about strong legs, strong hearts, strong cores. But we also need strong HANDS.

💙If you’re an active grandparent, your hands are working overtime every single day: buckling a car seat one-handed while a toddler arches their back, cranking open a childproof door handle, holding tiny fingers on a walk, twisting open jar lids, catching a kid off the monkey bars. 💙

💙Grip strength isn’t a “nice to have” for grandparents — it’s the tool that lets you show up fully, every time.

✅Here’s the science: grip strength typically starts declining in your 50s and drops even faster after 60 (that’s age-related muscle loss, or sarcopenia, at work). But it’s about way more than muscle — grip strength is now considered one of the best biomarkers of healthy aging and your grip is a window into how well your whole body is aging.

🙏The good news? Grip strength is trainable at any age — and one of the simplest tools is a tennis or stress ball.

🎾 Your 5-Minute Grip Strength Routine (do 3-4x/week):
• Squeeze & hold: Squeeze the ball as hard as you comfortably can, hold for 5 seconds, release. 10 reps per hand.
• Slow squeezes: Squeeze to a count of 3, release to a count of 3. 10 reps per hand.
• Endurance pulses: Quick, light squeezes for 30 seconds per hand — builds stamina for those “hold on tight” toddler moments.
• Rotation squeeze: Hold the ball, squeeze gently, and rotate your wrist in slow circles, 5 each direction.

This is Active Grandparenting training and I cover more functional fitness, plus all my best wellness coaching in my new book, Active Grandparenting. Comment BOOK to pre-order your copy. And be sure to like, share & save this for future reference.

Stay Strong,
Kristen 🍋💦💪

08/06/2026

💙Welcome to Grandparents Anonymous, this is a safe place for grandparents to discuss difficult topics.

💙 It’s important for grandparents to remember that new parents are under a lot of pressure, more than we experienced when we became parents. Social media, podcasts and an overwhelming amount of information about how they should be parenting.

💙and grandparents are under pressure too! We want to be helpful but often our efforts are received as criticism vs help.

💙one of the best ways grandparents can navigate these types of situations is to keep in mind our kids are the parents now!

💙We can just relax and ask parents how we can be helpful during stressful moments vs making suggestions or trying to problem solve.

💙 many of us find this really challenging because what we really want to do is help. Being a parent IS a problem solving job, and it can be hard to step back as a grandparent and let parents do it their way.

💙the goal is for grandparents and parents to find a happy partnership where everyone benefits, especially the grandchildren. And how we get there is respectful communication and healthy boundaries.

💙and don’t take it personally if a parent would prefer not to take your advice.

💙💙💙I cover a lot about communication and boundaries in my new book Active Grandparenting. It’s also got my best wellness and fitness programs and healthy recipes. Comment BOOK to pre-order your copy.

💙see you at the next meeting of Grandparents Anonymous, bring a friend and let me know what topics you would like to cover at upcoming meetings.

Stay Strong,
Kristen🍋💦💪

This might be the most freeing reframe I've ever found. When the goal shifts from how you look to what you can do — ever...
08/06/2026

This might be the most freeing reframe I've ever found. When the goal shifts from how you look to what you can do — everything changes. The motivation gets cleaner. The consistency gets easier.

You're not training for a mirror. You're training for a backyard. For a beach. For a living room floor with a toddler who has absolutely no mercy. 😄

Train for the life you want to live with them. 💙

💬 Type AG101 in the comments and I'll share details on my full program — designed specifically to help today's grandparents meet the real challenges of modern grandparenting and show up as the grandparent your grandchildren deserve.

👇 What's something physical you want to be able to do WITH your grandkids for years to come?

Stay Strong,
Kristen 🍋💦💪

08/06/2026

💙 Welcome to the second meeting of Grandparents Anonymous.

💙 Being a modern grandparent comes with challenges many of us will face along the way.

💙 I’m glad you’re here. I hope the resources I share help you navigate it all and enjoy this ride called Grandparenting.

💙 Reach out and say hi, share this with a fellow grandparent, and let me know if this resonates.

💙 I also wrote Active Grandparenting — a 330-page handbook for active agers ready to have it all: fitness, wellness, recipes, and modern family dynamics. Comment BOOK to pre-order.

💙💙 See you at next week’s meeting. And remember: W.A.I.T. But if you don’t... “you could take this under consideration.”

Stay Strong,
Kristen 🍋💦💪

08/05/2026

➡️ Grandparents nobody warns you that grandparenting is soul shifting in every way!

💙Becoming a grandparent is not a parent redo — that ship has sailed. It’s a brand new job, with a new job description and your child, now a parent, is in a new job too.

💙And the qualifications that really help? Mobility. Stamina. The ability to get up and down off the floor 50 times a day without needing a hand. Open mindedness and patience galore.

💙It’s also the moment everything gets reordered. The stuff you used to stress about stops being the point. What is the point: showing up. Being capable enough to be trusted with the big moments, and present enough to catch the small ones.

✅ Here’s the part that should motivate you, not scare you: time isn’t linear, it’s finite. You can’t get back the time you don’t spend with the people you love. 💙

💙That’s exactly why staying strong and fit isn’t optional anymore — it’s strategy. It’s how you buy yourself more years in the game with this new, delightful human who just entered your life.

Comment “FRAMEWORK” and I’ll send you my free Active Grandparenting Framework Guide — built to help you navigate modern grandparenting with strength, purpose, and intention.

Stay Strong,
Kristen 🍋💦💪

But truly — one of the most underrated parts of being a great grandparent is knowing how to follow the parents' lead. It...
08/05/2026

But truly — one of the most underrated parts of being a great grandparent is knowing how to follow the parents' lead. It builds trust. It opens doors. It keeps you in the room.

The grandparents who respect the boundaries are always the ones getting the most time.

That's not a coincidence. 💙

💬 Visit activegrandparenting.com/active-grandparenting-framework/ to get my FREE Active Grandparenting Framework — your foundation for building the family relationships that keep you close to the grandchildren you love.

👇 What's your secret to a great relationship with your grandchildren's parents?

Stay Strong,
Kristen 🍋💦💪

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