Our biggest midlife challenge isn't desire. It's time. Finding time to pause. Time to simply breathe in and maybe, actually, to take back. Take back a little time to do something for ourselves that is long overdue. To... well... quite literally... rethink reprioritize recommit These three simple steps guide us in taking more personal responsibility in life's five big choices: mind, body, spirit, money, and hq. Sooner or later it becomes crystal clear. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This book will remind you why today is not a good day to put your dreams on hold. Midlife crisis is spending our life chasing our dreams and finally getting there, more or less. But in looking around we think, "This isn't what I wanted " Mid Life Celebration is using our gut-wrenching discovery, also known as a wake up call, to change things. But in another minute we will be on our way to some other important, shiny thing. Because, well, that is how we have learned to medicate ourselves. We unknowingly default to life's constant distractions. Why? Perhaps because we do not feel worthy of success and because, deep down, maybe we do not feel we deserve an extraordinary second half. And even if we did, where the heck do we start? It took jeff noel 30 years to write this book's first sentence, and four more years to find the courage to finish it. He lives behind Orlando's most famous theme park and has thrived for the past 30 years in one of the most admired companies in the world. Since 1999 jeff has spoken to one-million people worldwide."

50 Ways to Celebrate Life After 50 is an upbeat, encouraging guide to help midlife women find more meaning, embrace more celebration and have more fun after 50. Get unstuck, avoid regrets and live your best life!

Brewi and Brennan use a blend of Christianity with Jungian psychology to address four stages of the mid-life process: the archetypal perspective, the task of coming to terms with the "shadow personality," working with the inner child, so that the child can lead the adult into this new stage of living, and exploring Wisdom, the fruit of living.

Unlock the transformative potential of your midlife journey with "Navigate Midlife," a groundbreaking eBook designed to empower and inspire. This comprehensive guide challenges outdated narratives and embraces a modern, holistic approach to one of life's most pivotal phases. Begin your journey with a fresh look at what midlife truly means, breaking down cultural perceptions and embracing the inevitable transition. Develop the emotional resilience required to navigate this stage with agility and self-compassion, equipping yourself to face emotional challenges head-on. Dive into the realm of physical health, where you'll find practical strategies for maintaining vitality through mindful practices and nutrition. Explore opportunities for career transformation and growth, with insights into assessing satisfaction and considering new paths. Relationships are put under the spotlight, offering advice on nurturing partnerships, evolving friendships, and managing complex family dynamics. Simultaneously, embark on a journey of personal identity exploration, discovering a renewed sense of purpose and authenticity. Financial security is addressed in detail, guiding you through important milestones and retirement planning, while ensuring a balance between security and freedom. Allow your creative spark to reignite, discovering new passions and the benefits of lifelong learning. Learn to manage stress effectively with proven techniques in mindfulness and time management. Parenting takes on new dimensions, from steering adolescents to embracing grandparenthood, while adaptation strategies for blending families are thoughtfully covered. Change is inevitable; learn to embrace it. Cultivate social connections, strengthen community ties, and appreciate the power of belonging. Harness technology to enhance your life without letting it overwhelm you. Ultimately, "Navigate Midlife" empowers you to build a lasting legacy and celebrate achievements, instilling gratitude and optimism as you look to the future. Your midlife is a launchpad for incredible new possibilities—unlock them with confidence and grace.

The acclaimed author explores the hidden crises of Gen X women in this “engaging hybrid of first-person confession, reportage [and] pop culture analysis” (The New Republic). Ada Calhoun was married with children and a good career—and yet she was miserable. She thought she had no right to complain until she realized how many other Generation X women felt the same way. What could be behind this troubling trend? To find out, Calhoun delved into housing costs, HR trends, credit card debt averages, and divorce data. At every turn, she saw that Gen X women were facing new problems as they entered middle age—problems that were being largely overlooked. Calhoun spoke with women across America who were part of the generation raised to “have it all.” She found that most were exhausted, terrified about money, under-employed, and overwhelmed. And instead of being heard, they were being told to lean in, take “me-time,” or make a chore chart to get their lives and homes in order. In Why We Can’t Sleep, Calhoun opens up the cultural and political contexts of Gen X’s predicament. She offers practical advice on how to ourselves out of the abyss—and keep the next generation of women from falling in. The result is reassuring, empowering, and essential reading for all middle-aged women, and anyone who hopes to understand them.

Women's Rites of Passage grew out of Abigail Brenner s desire to answer some fundamental questions about the role of rites of passage in contemporary women s lives. Relying on a research study involving over 50 women, Brenner shows how women today understand the need to take responsibility for their lives and for directing their own paths, and are beginning to do so by creating their own very personal rites of passage.

For aspiring crones and wisewomen who are ready to embrace the ancient croning ceremony - a rite of passage where honoring your life's journey is worth celebrating. Crones, let's celebrate!

From acclaimed photographer Elinor Carucci, a vivid chronicle of one woman's passage through aging, family, illness, and intimacy. It is a period in life that is universal, at some point, to everyone, yet in our day-to-day and cultural dialogue, nearly invisible. Midlife is a moving and empathetic portrait of an artist at the point in her life when inexorable change is more apparent than ever. Elinor Carucci, whose work has been collected in the previous acclaimed volumes Closer (2002, 2009) and Mother (2013), continues her immersive and close-up examination of her own life in this volume, portraying this moment in vibrant detail. As one of the most autobiographically rigorous photographers of her generation, Carucci recruits and revisits the same members of her family that we have seen since her work gained prominence two decades ago. Even as we observe telling details--graying hair, the pressures and joys of marriage, episodes of pronounced illness, the evolution of her aging parents' roles as grandparents, her children's increasing independence--we are invited to reflect on the experiences that we all share contending with the challenges of life, love, and change.

Aging ain't what it used to be. For one thing, people are staying younger longer. For another, countless baby boomers are rising up against the notion that with age comes worthlessness. In fact, Not Your Mother's Mid-Life: A Ten-Step Guide to Fearless Aging is more than a book; it's a movement. This gloriously gutsy volume challenges society's worn-out perceptions that women become less valuable as they age. Instead, authors Nancy Alspaugh and Marilyn Kentz celebrate the fact that today's women can be more powerful, more efficient, more capable, and even more desirable as they age. In Not Your Mother's Mid-Life, readers will find 10 practical recommendations to help women face middle age with confidence and a positive attitude. From chapters like Let Go of What's Not Working, Shore Up Spiritually, and Find a New Passion, Not Your Mother's Mid-Life contains personal growth exercises, humorous and poignant stories, and questions and visualizations to inspire new ways of thinking. Not Your Mother's Mid-Life takes the crisis out of mid-life, replacing it with passion, fearlessness, and unlimited possibilities.

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A “furious and addictive new novel” (The New York Times) about mothers and daughters, and one woman's midlife reckoning as she flees her suburban life. “Exhilarating ... reads like a burning fever dream. A virtuosic, singular and very funny portrait of a woman seeking sanity and purpose in a world gone mad.” —The New York Times Book Review Samantha Raymond's life has begun to come apart: her mother is ill, her teenage daughter is increasingly remote, and at fifty-two she finds herself staring into "the Mids"—that hour of supreme wakefulness between three and four in the morning in which women of a certain age suddenly find themselves contemplating motherhood, mortality, and, in this case, the state of our unraveling nation. When she falls in love with a beautiful, decrepit house in a hardscrabble neighborhood in Syracuse, she buys it on a whim and flees her suburban life—and her family—as she grapples with how to be a wife, a mother, and a daughter, in a country that is coming apart at the seams. Dana Spiotta's Wayward is a stunning novel about aging, about the female body, and about female complexity in contemporary America. Probing and provocative, brainy and sensual, it is a testament to our weird times, to reforms and resistance and utopian wishes, and to the beauty of ruins.