Create Your Own Midlife Crisis is a fun and humorous choose-your-own-path book on making risqué and bold choices in the prime of midlife, giving you the chance to try countless roads not yet taken. What's the worst that could happen? Are you on the far side of forty and wondering how you ended up here? Do you secretly wish you could set flame to everything and walk away in slow motion, leave your tedious responsibilities and boring routines behind, and start life over again? What if you could? In the classic choose-your-own-path style, gives you unlimited chances to try all the roads not taken: To quit your stupid job, turn to page 108. To buy a motorcycle, turn to page 74. To agree to a swingers' night, turn to page 82. To go clubbing with your mom, turn to page 68. Whether it's an affair with a younger man, trying ayahuasca, or just telling your boss to shove it, Create Your Own Midlife Crisis delivers over 150 exciting and hilarious ways to reinvent your life. With illustrations and endless possibilities, this fun and affordable book is the PERFECT GIRLFRIEND's GIFT! It will make a hilarious birthday, retirement, Galentine's, or girlfriend's gift for anyone in their midlife years. • What to gift a girlfriend going through a divorce? Divorce can be difficult and painful, but these days, women are also making it fun and empowering—as evidenced in The Huffington Post's piece, "Divorce Parties: Inside the Trend That Makes Ending a Marriage Look Fun." Create Your Own Midlife Crisis is the perfect gag gift for such an event. • A fun, easy escape from daily life: Whether you're looking for a fun way to pass the time on a 10-hour flight or just a quick 15-minute read before bed (because you are a busy Bosslady), this book is both easy to dip into and fun to get lost in. • Missing Choose-your-own-path books? Create Your Own Midlife Crisis will appeal to anyone who grew up reading choose-your-own-adventure books and loves the interactive experience of making reckless choices and discovering unexpected paths while reading.

A smart, personal, darkly funny examination of what it’s like to be a woman at the crossroads of a midlife crisis, from the New York Times bestselling author of People I Want to Punch in the Throat “I inhaled this book in one sitting; it’s a must-read for anyone over forty. This should become the gift all girlfriends give one another.”—Zibby Owens, host of the award-winning podcast Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books Jen Mann had what appeared to be the perfect life: a successful career as a bestselling author and award-winning blogger, a devoted husband, teenage kids who weren’t total jerks, and a badass minivan. So imagine her surprise when, at forty-seven years old, a midlife crisis kicked her straight in the ladybits. Midlife Bites offers Jen’s trademark wit and honesty when it comes to important conversations and observations about women in midlife. Here, readers will be able to come together and find anecdotes and practical ideas to help navigate through this major point in their lives. For women who may feel isolated or overlooked, this collection of original essays offers valuable insights, takeaways, and, most important, a productive way forward. Jen shares her own story as well as advice and wisdom from the online community she built, tackling everything that bites about midlife, where nothing is off-limits: raging hormones; sex (after forty); finding your purpose; learning to make new friends (yes, even as a grown-up); moving out of your comfort zone; having conversations that count, no more small talk; and how to deal with rogue chin hairs (and other nuisances). Jen Mann is leading the movement to create a new space where middle-aged women can share openly and honestly with one another. This no-BS collection of essays will help start the conversation and keep it going, because as women, we all have a right to be happy, fulfilled, and whole, no matter what stage of life.

Things to Learn: - 7 Ways to Midlife Crisis Without Buying a Ferrar!- Answering the Midlife Wake-up Call- Midlife - A Time to Shed Shells- Midlife Courage: Transitioning Uncertainty with a Spirit of Adventure- Seeking Success in Midlife- Midlife Transition - The Fourth Stage of Midlife Reintegration.- Midlife Marriage - Love It Or Leave It?- How to Change Your Life - And Make Midlife the Best Time of Your Life- How to Strengthen Your Relationship Or Marriage in Midlife- When a Midlife Woman Wants to Jump Into the Next Part of Her Life But Feels Stuck.- 3 Misconceptions Midlife Women Have That Hold Them Back From Realizing Their Dreams- Mid-Life Crisis - What's a Woman to Do- Reinvent Yourself at Midlife - The Fourth of Seven Secrets- 5 Strategies for Better Night's Rest at Midlife- The Midlife Manifesto - A Call to Action- Midlife Manifesto - How to Create Your Midlife Renaissance in 4 Wildly Successful Steps- Midlife Women in the Age of Miracles - Changing the Way the World Sees Women in MidlifeScroll UP and GET THIS NOW!

Narrating Midlife: Crisis, Transition, and Transformation is rooted in a discussion about why it is important to address the midlife years in ways that challenge and interrogate the myths that surround this phase of life. Although readers are free to construct their own meaning after reading each narrative, they are encouraged to attend to the ways in which each narrative reveals how the author grapples with their particular issues communicatively. More important, readers are invited to see the power of narrative re-framing as authors seek to understand, interpret and “live” midlife change(s) in ways that are empowering and life affirming. In this book, contributors spin compelling and meaningful narratives about change at midlife. The empty nest, the surprise discovery of cancer, re-defining one's life at midlife and re-imagining long term commitment after divorce are just some of the topics explored in this book. Auto-ethnographically crafted, the narratives presented throughout the book aim to show how managing and living through change at midlife is very much a communicative endeavor.

Previously published as Wake the F*ck Up! by Paula Mould. Newly updated for 2021, by the same author who is now using her maiden name. Have you ever looked around at your life and wondered if this is all there was? The dreams that used to light you up, somehow were lost along the way. The plans, great big huge, terrifying plans, discarded for the 9-5. Tonight, you're going home to heat up frozen chicken for your sullen teenage children who won't eat the vegetables and bicker loudly enough that you find yourself reaching for the wine again and it's only 6 pm. What happened to the vibrant, creative dreamer you used to be? Now your Saturday night is filled with shitty made for TV movies and cheap vodka because quantity over quality, am I right? \ Life is not supposed to be a series of disappointments, surrendering your dreams because it's the thing everyone else does. I call BULLSHIT on that! This book is all about finding yourself again through a series of simple steps and exercises. Changing your perception and perspective. Finding your voice and shouting HELL YES! when life comes calling at your door wearing a slinky dress and a sultry attitude, with lipstick just this shade of too red and you are completely here for that. Stepping into your courage wearing the Docs you still hung onto though the 90s are long past and your emo phase is a closely guarded secret. Deciding that you too deserve to travel now, create art now, do the things NOW that make your insides quiver and you breath come quicker. Written by Paula Telizyn, artist and author who had such a powerful midlife crisis that she ran through her life with swords, carving her initials in everything worth keeping and tossing the rest aside in the most cavalier way possible, this book is designed to guide you through reclaiming what's yours: your own damn life on your terms.

A radical new take on one of humanity's most misunderstood periods of transition: the midlife crisis. Only two species of mammal have a post-reproductive life that lasts longer than their reproductive life: killer whales, whose elders are able to sniff out food supplies over vast oceanic distances to keep their pods fed, and Homo sapiens. While the evolutionary purpose of the killer whale’s extensive life seems clear, what is the point of ours? This was a question that intrigued the psychoanalyst Carl Jung, who observed that if a culture is to maintain its deepest, profoundest roots while moving forward to embrace the challenges of historical and technological change, it needs to find an equilibrium between the energy, vigor, and creativity of those in the ego-driven first half of life and the experience, dignity, and wisdom of those in the second. But to make it to that second half of life, we need to traverse the dreaded middle years, when so many of us find ourselves discontented with our jobs, unhappy in our relationships, and lamenting our fetishized youths. In this highly readable and groundbreaking new book, the psychoanalyst Andrew Jamieson examines the Jungian concept of the midlife crisis to show how it is an essential evolutionary and social rite of passage that we all must proceed through—a set of challenges that we either take advantage of or ignore, depending on whether our complex or neurosis blocks this developmental impulse. Drawing on history, psychology, science, and literature, Jamieson shows just how ubiquitous, and crucial, the “midlife crisis” is, and the devastating consequences for society at large if we continue to regard it as something we can, and should, avoid.