Carolina Winograd She is one of the most authentic and powerful voices of female well-being in the Hispanic world. Founder of Kaliope Glow and creator of the RESETATE method, she has just released “Living without an expiration date” (Ed. Planeta), a book that challenges the cultural mandates that dictate that after a certain age we are no longer enough.
In dialogue with LatamNoticias, we talked about his book and much more.
What inspired you to write Living Without an Expiration Date?
This book was born from a very real experience: mine. For years I lived in “performance” mode, running after everything I thought I had to sustain. Until my body began to show the signs of deep exhaustion: chronic stress, inflammation, insomnia, premature aging. There I understood that it was not about continuing to add, but about disconnection. That I was surviving, not living.
From that break, I began a process of transformation that later became my method and, finally, in this book that seeks to show that we are not victims of the passage of time, but of how we inhabit it. Today I accompany women of all ages—to re-inhabit their body, their energy and their desire—to release the tension that shuts them down and to reconnect with themselves.
Was there a moment or personal crisis that marked the beginning of this path of transformation?
Yes. There was a moment when my body asked me to stop. It was not a specific illness, but several pathologies, a sum of signs that I systematically patched or with which I got used to living for years.
In a society that glorifies youth, why do you think we continue to associate age with loss and not opportunity?
Because we grew up with a narrative where aging is synonymous with deterioration.
They taught us to hide the passage of time as if it were a shame, instead of living it as an achievement. We become obsessed with keeping our skin firm, but we let the essentials fall: desire, curiosity, play, inner strength.
It is not the body that ages: it is the look with which we judge it, the way in which we perceive ourselves and imprison ourselves. Age does not have to turn us off, we can work to purify it, to return us to what is real, to what remains when we no longer need to please or survive. That is where true vitality begins: the one that does not depend on the mirror, but on consciousness and the way we embrace and honor each day of our lives.
What mandates about age do you think are most urgent to overthrow today, especially for women?
The mandate of permanent perfection. It is no longer just about being young: now we have to be “our best version” and also perform. The demand changed form, but it still carries the same weight. They sold us well-being as a new competition. And many women live exhausted trying to achieve an ideal version of themselves, which does not exist.. I think the urgent thing is to let go of that demand to “be well” all the time and return to authenticity. Inhabit each stage with truth, with tenderness, without fear of pause, without fear of years, or imperfection. Because plenitude is not about looking impeccable or like when we were 20: it is about being able to have health, energy, a free spirit, a body that accompanies us, an awake mind and a heart in command.
You talk about “resetting body, mind and spirit.” What does that mean in practice?
It means re-synchronizing what routine separated. The body accumulates what the mind does not process and the soul remains silent. Resetting yourself involves activating your lymphatic and respiratory system, resting well, nourishing yourself with awareness, releasing retained emotions, and above all, making decisions that give you back energy, autonomy and freedom. It’s not about “improving yourself”: it’s about inhabiting yourself again, reconciling yourself with your value, it’s about recognizing your power.
How are neuroscience, Chinese medicine and emotional wisdom connected in your proposal?
Traditional Chinese Medicine understood it thousands of years ago: we are a whole. Each thought alters the pulse, each emotion changes the breathing, each bond leaves its mark on the body. Neuroscience today confirms it: the brain is plastic, the body responds to the meaning we give to what we experience. Ellen Langer calls it active mindfulness: the ability to be present, to not live on autopilot, to allow the mind to regain its power to influence the physical.
My method integrates those views. It is not about “calming the mind” or “activating the body” separately, but about synchronizing them again. When we achieve this coherence, inflammation decreases, metabolism improves, the nervous system balances and something deeper appears: the feeling of being alive in real time.
In the book you mention the importance of reconnecting with what gives us meaning. What helped you in that process?
It was not an enlightenment, it was a dispossession. I had to stop and ask myself what I no longer wanted to do, what I didn’t want to lose. Play again, create without duty, feel without fear.
Meaning appeared when I stopped running after what I no longer wanted, and started choosing what really turns me on. It was not a reinvention: it was a reconciliation.
Today I know that living with meaning has nothing to do with doing more, but with doing it from the soul, with coherence, with the intention of doing good (for myself and others) and with joy, joy that so often escapes us and that we can learn to care for and exercise as a way of life.
Do you think that many people live “emotionally inflamed”? How does that manifest itself?
Yes, and more than we imagine. Today we live stressed and overwhelmed: with the body in defense mode and the mind in demand mode. Cortisol became our daily fuel, and we paid dearly for it: anxiety, insomnia, exhaustion, contractures, bruxism, premature aging, metabolic problems, hormonal problems, cardiovascular, circulatory, nervous problems, autoimmune diseases.
Emotional inflammation is not only in the body: it is in the way we talk to ourselves, in how we demand ourselves, in how we continue running even when the body asks for a brake. We are the ones who fight with the body and the mind, instead of treating them as allies.
Do you feel that women are leading this paradigm shift regarding age?
Absolutely. Women are setting the pulse of a new paradigm. We no longer want to hide or ask for permission. We are redefining what it means to mature, set limits, and choose from conscience. We are the ones who are challenging the discourses of fear and deterioration, and igniting a new way of living: with energy, with desire and with truth.
How does the culture of productivity influence the way we age?
It makes us sick. It makes us believe that our value lies in doing, producing, performing. But the body has its own time, and it does not always coincide with that of the agenda. Living on the run ages more than the years. On the other hand, when you learn to inhabit the present, time becomes an ally.
What could we learn from other cultures that celebrate maturity rather than fear it?
We could learn to respect the natural rhythm of life. In many Eastern cultures, gray hair is a symbol of wisdom, not loss. In Blue Zones, older women are the heart of the community. On the other hand, in the West we were taught to hide what nature gives us. Recovering that gaze is an act of collective healing: honoring the body, the time and the history we inhabit.
The book is a true call to reset body, mind and spirit to live with fullness, health and purpose, regardless of age. Winograd offers practical tools to reduce inflammation in the body, calm the mind, recover vital energy and reconnect with one’s own purpose.
Live without expiration date It is more than a book: it is a life manifesto, a silent revolution of self-leadership. Because we are not yogurts. Because our value does not expire. Because we still have time to feel more alive than ever.
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