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."

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.

Embracing change, finding fulfillment: A Guide for Women in Their Forties" by Dr. Asma Asfour is a transformative guide tailored specifically for women in their forties who are on the complicated journey of midlife. Through insightful narratives, expert guidance, and practical strategies, this book offers a roadmap for facing change with courage and grace while discovering the deep fulfillment that comes with self-discovery and personal growth. From redefining the perspective of aging to fostering resilience, cultivating creativity, and nurturing meaningful relationships, Dr. Asfour empowers women to navigate the complexities of midlife with authenticity, purpose, and unwavering resilience.

The midlife years are only the beginning - a transformational edit for your very best life. In 2019, Gail McNeill sold her cherished family home and moved to Portugal with just a few boxes of possessions. Soon after, the Covid pandemic enforced her isolation in a remote part of the world and sparked a cascade of introspection that led her to question every facet of her life, struggling to reconcile past choices with present reality. She started a journey of complete reinvention, from which she emerged physically, emotionally and spiritually transformed. Now better known to her hundreds of thousands of followers as @fiftysister, Gail shares her story of midlife metamorphosis to guide you step by step along your own path to reinvention. Showing that it's never too late to transform your life, The Midlife Edit will show you how to build a cocoon nourished by dietary, lifestyle and spiritual insights from which you can emerge transformed and re-energized, to make the absolute most of your middle years. Gail shows you how, by prioritizing self-care for just one year, you can unlock the secrets of health span, building strength and confidence for life, nourishing your body and your mind, and allowing you to enter this unique new phase of your life not diminished, but empowered. Let The Midlife Edit inspire you to invest in yourself, to imagine the life you truly desire - and to be seen, as you never have been before.

With common sense and good humor, Richard Olsen examines both the "outer journeys" and the "inner journeys", making clear throughout that the middle third of peoples' lives--the thirties, forties and fifties--is not the time to bemoan the past but rather to celebrate all that is around us. Olsen points out how readers can use the maturity of midlife to strengthen their personal relationships, maintain and increase their health, and reevaluate their vocational and career goals.

Fraught with physical, relational, professional, and psychological changes, midlife can be a challenging time. But according to Jungian-oriented psychotherapist Kathleen Brehony, "tranformation at midlife offers unparalleled opportunities for a rich, meaningful second half of life."With special sections on recovering childhood dreams, enriching creative expression, learning to appreciate our physical selves, heightening consciousness, and more, this guide is a wake-up call for anyone who wants to reassess one's beliefs and find a path that leads to greater fulfillment, happiness, and passion for life's journey.

This book helps normalize and therefore lessen the fear we might experience during the midlife crisis by educating us about midlife dynamics. This book reduces anxiety in congregations that fear they don't know how to react as it shows ways to explore and respond to midlife issues of loss, difficult relationships, anger, fear, sexuality, paradox and tension, pain, and changing relationship to God. It helps readers learn how to be present with people in midlife transition without feeling that they will be engulfed or that they must solve all midlife problems.