PLEASE NOTE: This is a summary and analysis of the book and not the original book. ZIP Reads is wholly responsible for this content and is not associated with the original author in any way. If you are the author, publisher, or representative of the original work, please contact [email protected] with any questions or concerns. If you'd like to purchase the original book, please paste this link in your browser: https://amzn.to/2LFvvzE The savvy septuagenarian dives straight into the raw complexities of aging, emphasizing how older women are capable of vitality and happiness. A slow pull up the river, she shows how crafting emotional resilience and an uplifting narrative is essential for contentment; and gratitude as we age. What does this ZIP Reads Summary Include? - Synopsis of the original book - Key takeaways from each chapter - Personal stories from five different women and their struggles - Sage advice on how to improve your life as you age - Life lessons every women should learn - Editorial Review - Background on Mary Pipher About the Original Book: An old hand at a good story, Mary Pipher explores the theme of women aging as an arduous but deeply fulfilling journey up the river—intentional, beautiful, and raw. She takes her patients, friends, and personal anecdotes and shows how emotional resilience can be achieved after sixty. It’s about relationships, perspective, beauty, humor, engagement, and overcoming. DISCLAIMER: This book is intended as a companion to, not a replacement for, Women Rowing North. ZIP Reads is wholly responsible for this content and is not associated with the original author in any way. Please follow this link: https://amzn.to/2LFvvzE to purchase a copy of the original book.

PLEASE NOTE: This is a summary and analysis of the book and not the original book. If you'd like to purchase the original book, please paste this link in your browser: https: //amzn.to/2LFvvzE The savvy septuagenarian dives straight into the raw complexities of aging, emphasizing how older women are capable of vitality and happiness. A slow pull up the river, she shows how crafting emotional resilience and an uplifting narrative is essential for contentment; and gratitude as we age. Click "Buy Now with 1-Click" to own your copy today! What does this ZIP Reads Summary Include? Synopsis of the original book Key takeaways from each chapter Personal stories from five different women and their struggles Sage advice on how to improve your life as you age Life lessons every women should learn Editorial Review Background on Mary Pipher About the Original Book: An old hand at a good story, Mary Pipher explores the theme of women aging as an arduous but deeply fulfilling journey up the river-intentional, beautiful, and raw. She takes her patients, friends, and personal anecdotes and shows how emotional resilience can be achieved after sixty. It's about relationships, perspective, beauty, humor, engagement, and overcoming. DISCLAIMER: This book is intended as a companion to, not a replacement for, Women Rowing North ZIP Reads is wholly responsible for this content and is not associated with the original author in any way. Please follow this link: https: //amzn.to/2LFvvzE to purchase a copy of the original book. We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.

*PLEASE NOTE: This concise summary is unofficial and is not authorized, approved, licensed, or endorsed by the original book's publisher or author.*Short on time? Or maybe you've already read the book, but need a refresh on the most important takeaways. In a quick, easy read, you can take the main principles from Women Rowing North: Navigating Life's Currents and Flourishing as We Age!Mary Pipher is a psychologist and an author from Nebraska. She draws from her experience as a therapist to write about stages of life and transitioning smoothly through them. Her most recent book, Women Rowing North, aims to help women who are leaving middle age and entering their final stage of life. Her goal with the book is to help women navigate this transition with dignity. She aims to make aging less frightening and more beautiful for women.Pipher is most famous for her iconic, best-selling 1994 book Reviving Ophelia, which examined the many pressures teenage girls face in our society. Her look at mental health issues for teenagers was revolutionary for a generation of women.

New York Times Bestseller * USA Today Bestseller* Los Angeles Times Bestseller * Publishers Weekly Bestseller A guide to wisdom, authenticity, and bliss for women as they age by the author of Reviving Ophelia. Women growing older contend with ageism, misogyny, and loss. Yet as Mary Pipher shows, most older women are deeply happy and filled with gratitude for the gifts of life. Their struggles help them grow into the authentic, empathetic, and wise people they have always wanted to be. In Women Rowing North, Pipher offers a timely examination of the cultural and developmental issues women face as they age. Drawing on her own experience as daughter, sister, mother, grandmother, caregiver, clinical psychologist, and cultural anthropologist, she explores ways women can cultivate resilient responses to the challenges they face. “If we can keep our wits about us, think clearly, and manage our emotions skillfully,” Pipher writes, “we will experience a joyous time of our lives. If we have planned carefully and packed properly, if we have good maps and guides, the journey can be transcendent.”

#1 New York Times Bestseller The groundbreaking work that poses one of the most provocative questions of a generation: what is happening to the selves of adolescent girls? As a therapist, Mary Pipher was becoming frustrated with the growing problems among adolescent girls. Why were so many of them turning to therapy in the first place? Why had these lovely and promising human beings fallen prey to depression, eating disorders, suicide attempts, and crushingly low self-esteem? The answer hit a nerve with Pipher, with parents, and with the girls themselves. Crashing and burning in a “developmental Bermuda Triangle,” they were coming of age in a media-saturated culture preoccupied with unrealistic ideals of beauty and images of dehumanized sex, a culture rife with addictions and sexually transmitted diseases. They were losing their resiliency and optimism in a “girl-poisoning” culture that propagated values at odds with those necessary to survive. Told in the brave, fearless, and honest voices of the girls themselves who are emerging from the chaos of adolescence, Reviving Ophelia is a call to arms, offering important tactics, empathy, and strength, and urging a change where young hearts can flourish again, and rediscover and reengage their sense of self.

Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction A New York Times Bestseller Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Winner of the WSU AOS Bonner Book Award Winner of the 2022 At Home With Growing Older Impact Award As revelatory as Atul Gawande's Being Mortal, physician and award-winning author Louise Aronson's Elderhood is an essential, empathetic look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life. For more than 5,000 years, "old" has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That means most people alive today will spend more years in elderhood than in childhood, and many will be elders for 40 years or more. Yet at the very moment that humans are living longer than ever before, we've made old age into a disease, a condition to be dreaded, denigrated, neglected, and denied. Reminiscent of Oliver Sacks, noted Harvard-trained geriatrician Louise Aronson uses stories from her quarter century of caring for patients, and draws from history, science, literature, popular culture, and her own life to weave a vision of old age that's neither nightmare nor utopian fantasy--a vision full of joy, wonder, frustration, outrage, and hope about aging, medicine, and humanity itself. Elderhood is for anyone who is, in the author's own words, "an aging, i.e., still-breathing human being."

“Simple solutions for survival in this family-unfriendly culture…Eye-opening…heart-wrenching and uplifting.”—San Francisco Chronicle Even more resonant today than at its original publication in 1996, The Shelter of Each Other traces the effects of our society’s “anti-family” way of life, where parents are overtaxed, children are undersupervised, and technology is rapidly dictating how we interact. As she did in her number-one bestseller Reviving Ophelia, Mary Pipher illuminates how our families are suffering at the hands of shifting cultural norms, and she snaps our gaze into crisp focus. Drawing on the fascinating stories of families rich and poor, angry and despairing, religious and skeptical, and probing deep into her own family memories and experiences, Pipher clears a path to the strength and energy at the core of family life. Compassionate and heart-wrenching, The Shelter of Each Other is an impassioned call for us to gather our families in our arms and hold on to them for dear life.