AARP Digital Editions offer you practical tips, proven solutions, and expert guidance. With The 9 Intense Experiences, you can become the person you were meant to be and experience the life you’ve always dreamed of. What are the 9 most intense experiences—the transformative steps that can improve your life starting now? How do these experiences generate happiness, health, and success in every aspect of your life? Why have people throughout the centuries valued them and why do so few people today realize their power? The 9 intense experiences are core to the teachings of the world's great spiritual and healing traditions. Prominent artists and leaders throughout history have understood their unparalleled importance. Now the latest research in psychology, neuroscience, medicine, and other fields is verifying how essential they are. In The 9 Intense Experiences, internationally acclaimed life coach and speaker Brian Vaszily shows you how to take the ultimate journey within yourself that will engage your body, mind, heart, and spirit, knock down the barriers that have built up inside you, and put you back in touch with the real you. After decades of professional and personal exploration, Brian Vaszily -- founder of one of the world’s most popular and unique personal growth websites and a rising star among today’s top positive growth visionaries – helps you achieve your 9 intense experiences. With Vaszily’s gentle and inspiring guidance, you’ll learn how to abandon your stress and frustration and rediscover the wonder and possibilities in life. In The 9 Intense Experiences, you will learn how to: Enjoy your life more than ever before Achieve peak energy and success Ignite your, and others’, brilliance Laugh off negative emotions Create deeply trusting relationships Discover your spiritual center The experiences you’ll discover in this life-expanding guide are truly intense, but getting there is more enjoyable and deeply satisfying than you can imagine. Each intense experience is broken down into a series of easy exercises that will rapidly enable you to receive the transformative power of each experience. If you’d rather ride the wave than be stuck in the same-old same-old, here is your chance. Read The 9 Intense Experiences and find out how great the real you really is. Expect to think and feel in very different ways and get ready to be transformed.

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"Lynch provides a fresh and comprehensive look at the potential for politically mobilizing the large Boomer generation. He successfully mixes anecdotes, scholarship, and statistics to present an entertaining and informative analysis of a timely topic. Anyone desiring to effect change in public policy will welcome this book."—William H. Frey, The Brookings Institution “Fred Lynch has written a nuanced and marvelously comprehensive examination of the state of the Boomer Nation. This book offers an in-depth look at the economic challenges facing Boomers as well as a colorful account of how AARP has tried to rebrand itself to attract the generation that once celebrated the free spirit and hated the ‘establishment’.”—Neil Howe, co-author of The Graying of the Great Powers "A timely and important study of one of the most powerful lobbying groups in America as it redefines its mission and its message to confront the generational challenges of the twenty-first century." —Steve Gillon, author of Boomer Nation and Resident Historian of the History Channel "Fred Lynch's interpretation is an illuminating and much needed empirical corrective to the confusing and misleading cant that dominates so much of the debate. His scholarship deftly distinguishes between the organization's marketing to an aging society and the diverse realities of that population demographic." —Ted Marmor, author of Fads, Fallacies, and Foolishness in Medical Care Management and Policy and The Politics of Medicare

Informal caregivers - family members, friends, and other loved ones - are an essential, uncompensated and significantly burdened extension of the healthcare team. Rapid advances in cancer care, including new drugs and immunotherapies and more sophisticated diagnostic tools, have markedly improved the ability to medically extend lives and enhance survival. As patients are living longer, with today's shorter hospital stays and shift towards increased outpatient care, however, the demands placed on all caregivers and their needs have substantially increased. Cancer Caregivers reveals the field of Psycho-Oncology's exploration of the depth of complexities of caregiving experiences and identifies the vast expanses left to be understood. This text describes the characteristics and experiences of cancer caregivers based on their life stage, relationship to the patient, and ethnic group membership, as well as patients' disease and treatment type. It highlights the significant progress in research focused on the development and dissemination of psychosocial interventions for cancer caregivers, and includes in-depth case studies to illustrate their delivery and application. The text also explores the provision of support to caregivers in the community and the legal and ethical concerns faced by caregivers throughout the caregiving process. Cancer Caregivers offers both fundamental and practical information and is the essential resource for all healthcare professionals who work with patients and families facing cancer.

Myth-busting insights that will empower family members to cope with the challenges and blessings of caregiving while aging successfully themselves. Caring for an elderly family member can be overwhelming. But fulfilling life experiences are still possible for both caregivers and their loved ones, despite the stress and fatigue of caregiving. In this comprehensive book, best-selling author Ann Kaiser Stearns explores the practical and personal challenges of both caregiving and successful aging. She couples findings from the latest research with powerful insights and problem-solving tips to help caregivers achieve the best life possible for those they care for—and for themselves as they age. Topics include • Improving the quality of life for the one giving and the one receiving care • Distinguishing normal aging from early warning signs • Understanding caregiver sadness, resentment, guilt, and grief • Using strategies and skills to minimize an impaired elder's distress and emotional outbursts and the caregiver's own anxieties about growing old • Finding resources to aid in the care of the loved one and protect the caregiver from stress overload • Moving forward after the death of a loved one to have a meaningful life of one's own • Overcoming ageist stereotypes and deciding what kind of "old person" one will be • Making life easier for those who someday will care for us Redefining Aging will help readers think differently about caregiving and their own aging.

Find hope even in these dark times with this rediscovered masterpiece, a companion to his international bestseller Man’s Search for Meaning. Eleven months after he was liberated from the Nazi concentration camps, Viktor E. Frankl held a series of public lectures in Vienna. The psychiatrist, who would soon become world famous, explained his central thoughts on meaning, resilience, and the importance of embracing life even in the face of great adversity. Published here for the very first time in English, Frankl’s words resonate as strongly today—as the world faces a coronavirus pandemic, social isolation, and great economic uncertainty—as they did in 1946. He offers an insightful exploration of the maxim “Live as if you were living for the second time,” and he unfolds his basic conviction that every crisis contains opportunity. Despite the unspeakable horrors of the camps, Frankl learned from the strength of his fellow inmates that it is always possible to “say yes to life”—a profound and timeless lesson for us all.

Discover the "important and inspiring" and never-before-told complete story of the remarkable relationship between country music icons Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn (Miranda Lambert). Loretta Lynn and the late Patsy Cline are legends—country icons and sisters of the heart. For the first time ever Loretta tells their story: a celebration of their music and their relationship up until Patsy's tragic and untimely death. Full of laughter and tears, this eye-opening, heartwarming memoir paints a picture of two stubborn, spirited country gals who'd be damned if they'd let men or convention tell them how to be. Set in the heady streets of the 1960s South, this nostalgia ride shows how Nashville blossomed into the city of music it is today. Tender and fierce, Me & Patsy Kickin' Up Dust is an up-close-and-personal portrait of a friendship that defined a generation and changed country music indelibly—and a meditation on love, loss and legacy.