Download or read book Midlife Maze written by Janis Clark Johnston and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-02-16 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you found yourself wilting in midlife, and wondering what you might do to flourish in your remaining years? Have you lost your way in the midlife maze due to a significant loss? Did you lose your job or desired career advancement? Did you separate or divorce? Did your last child leave home? Did your family experience a virtual storm of bankruptcy or lose your life savings in a financial meltdown? Did you or someone in your family experience the loss of good health? Or did you weather the death of a family member, partner, or friend? Your loss story is personal. Your path through winding passages during midlife is unique. Perhaps the most important encouragement for your grieving process is to know this simple fact: grieving is a natural healing response to loss rather than a pathological experience. Midlife can be a time of reflection, rebellion, or reconnecting to old or new interests and activities. It can also be a time when losses start to happen or begin to pile up – divorce, death of a loved one, loss of a job or home, the moving out and on of grown children—and learning how to move forward can be a challenge. Here, a seasoned psychologist looks at the geography of loss in midlife, the way it can affect us, and what we can do to get back on track or redirect ourselves when necessary. Through first hand stories and practical exercises, the author leads readers through the midlife maze to a place of recovery, purpose, and peace.
Download or read book Create Your Own Midlife Crisis written by Marie Phillips and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book A Labyrinth Walk Of Life written by Lewis Tagliaferre and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a collection of journaled essays leading to the inevitable belief in theological fatalism, aka Theofatalism. They include arguments from theology, psychology, politics, geology, technology, sociology, economics, history, cosmology and more. With this belief system, you can feel good inside no matter what happens outside. It may take several readings to get it, but anything worthwhile requires effort. The work relies upon religious scriptures and the analytical psychology of Swiss psychiatrist Carl G. Jung (1875-1961). The Chartres Labyrinth is used as the symbol for the walk of life that each of us is given. We leave the source at birth and meander around on earth through stages of growth and decline to return to the source when our life work is done. You don't have to search for your purpose in life, because you cannot avoid it. Essays in Part I discuss contemporary issues of life, and Part II focuses on the Jungian personality factors in aging. The scriptural evidence points to the will of God in every aspect of every life of every species on earth, i.e., immaculate immanence. This is not the manmade god in holy books, but the prime mover in the universe - generator, operator, destroyer - GOD. God above Gods. Don't believe in God? Never fear; God makes atheists and agnostics, too. That is the message of this book. The Psalm says, "You saw me before I was born and scheduled each day of my life before I began to breathe. Every day was recorded in your book!" (Psalm 139:16, NLT). Nothing from atoms to galaxies can happen outside the will of God. Ergo Theofatalism.
Download or read book Transforming Retirement written by Janis Clark Johnston and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-05-05 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: People are naturally worried about transitions at any stage of their lives, and retirement transitioning presents unique challenges because you realize that your life clock is ticking faster with each passing year. Beyond financial concerns, your true wealth is determined by how you spend your time and how you care for your health. Retirement represents a rich psychological growth time, and successful aging is characterized by cultivating a growth mindset alongside a healthy dose of grit, or passion plus persistence. This book shares insights from a survey of 125 participants, all of whom are 55 or older, on retirement beliefs and time management. The author encourages retirees to embrace the concept of rewiring their brains in a psychological reboot applying to both work and non-work scenarios. Each chapter presents rewiring exercises that prepare space for new possibilities to germinate immediately, and "possibility time" exercises that foster digging deeper into legacy roots for shaping days where you can flourish. Seasoned citizen years have the possibility of becoming your greatest life plots when you rewire your personality and ability skillset.
Download or read book Self Confidence made Simple written by aka Margaretha Montagu and published by Margaretha de Klerk. This book was released on 2016-09-28 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: French women are famous for their effortless elegance, their enchanting independence, their irresistible charm and their unshakable self-confidence. Would you like to discover the secrets of these consistently confident women? In Self-Confidence made Simple, 16 of Dr Margaretha Montagu closest French friends share their confidence secrets with you. Margaretha has lived in France for part of her childhood and for most of her adult life. She has spent nearly twenty-five years, first as a medical doctor and more recently as a workshop leader, empowering women to live long, happy, healthy and fulfilling lives, full of purpose and meaning. Discover the secrets of 16 supremely self-confident women. In this book, you will meet twelve French women, Anaïs, Inès, Lisa, Marie-Therèse, Claire, Régine, Amèlie, Corrine, Béatrice, Annie, Monique, Eloïse etc. who will share their stories with you. As you share these women's joys and sorrows, you will discover how they remain unconditionally self-confident, serenely sophisticated and perfectly poised no matter how challenging the situations are that they find themselves in. To each story and to every secret, Dr Montagu brings her extensive knowledge and experience, with practical suggestions to help you incorporate each of these potentially life-changing strategies into your own life. Self-Confidence made Simple is a guide to becoming a woman who knows exactly who she is, who takes excellent care of herself, who leads a balanced, purposeful and fulfilling life, who has a solid support network, who can laugh at herself, who knows she has a lot to be grateful for, who knows how to forgive, who competently handles stress, who knows how to say NO without apologising and who knows that being ageless is all about attitude. This book will empower you to make quick decisions in difficult situations based on what is really important to youaccept yourself and appreciate your unique talents and abilitiesbelieve in yourself so that you can make the changes you want to make in your lifedeal with stress before it damages your physical or mental healthcare for yourself physically, mentally and spirituallybuild strong long-lasting relationshipscreate a solid and reliable support network so that you canask for help before you feel totally overwhelmedset firm boundaries and say NO without feeling guilty or needing to explainfocus on what you can learn from an experience rather on what went wrongrealise that whatever age you are at is the best age for you to bestop criticising yourself andcelebrate your success without needing to apologise for being brilliant And much, much more. This book is for women of all ages, convictions, orientations and cultures. If you too want to master the skills you need to develop rock-solid self-confidence, this book is for you.
Download or read book Midlife Crisis at 30 written by Lia Macko and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2004-03-18 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide for professional women struggling with burnout analyzes the social and psychological factors that affect a woman's career and relationships, and offers strategies for achieving a healthy personal and professional balance.
Download or read book The Journey of Life written by Thomas R. Cole and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-11-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Journey of Life envisions growing up and growing old as a voyage down a river flowing inexorably to the sea. With this image of the human life cycle, the author explores the historical shoreline of later life, charting its cultural forms and sounding their depths. The result is both a cultural history of aging and a contribution to public dialogue about the meaning and significance of later life. The core of the book shows how central texts and images of Northern.
Download or read book Updating Midlife written by Guillermo Julio Montero and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Midlife" is a concept used everywhere and from many different vertexes, though mostly imprecisely, even within the psychoanalytic paradigm. This book tries to settle its proper meaning through the challenge of laying the foundations for the development of a true psychoanalytic metapsychology for "midlife", something that the editors believe in psychoanalysis was lacking. From this viewpoint, they invited fourteen renowned psychoanalysts to share their ideas about the issue. The outcome of that work is Updating Midlife: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, which, in addition to the various contributions, includes an introductory paper by the editors. This book is a true step forward in the development of a specific metapsychology for "midlife".
Download or read book Detach and Survive written by Midlife Maze and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Speed of Favor written by Tim Hill and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will keep you from living in fear of what's to come for the end times and, instead, embrace God's blessings on your family, finances, and your faith.
Download or read book The Midlife Method written by Sam Rice and published by Headline Home. This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Midlife Method, food and lifestyle writer Sam Rice explores why it is so much harder to lose weight as we get older and what we can do about it. Rather than focusing exclusively on restricted eating, as so many diets do, Sam guides us through her 'method' for midlife weight loss based on extensive research into the specific physiological changes that occur in our middle years. She answers the questions that she herself asked when, in her forties, the weight suddenly started accumulating around the middle: * Why is this happening to me? * What am I eating that isn't helping? * What foods should I be eating more of? * How do calories fit into the equation? * How much and what kinds of exercise are most beneficial? * What other lifestyle changes do I need to make? Including more than 80 delicious recipes for breakfast, lunch and family-friendly dinners, along with an easy 4-week meal plan, The Midlife Method shows how combining Light Days (active calorie restriction via calorie-controlled recipes) and Regular Days (focused on eating well-balanced, nutrient-dense food) can bring about healthy and sustainable weight loss. But we don't just want to lose weight as we get older, we want to feel great too, that is where The Midlife Method Healthy Habits come in. Learn how to exercise optimally, get a better night's sleep, manage stress and enjoy alcohol as part of a healthier lifestyle. If you feel stuck in a midlife weight rut then this is the book for you.
Download or read book Labyrinth written by Mustafa Mun and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-12-28 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Labyrinth, which means a maze/puzzle, is my way of expressing the puzzle of everyone’s life, expressed via short thoughts which will relate to each individual’s puzzle of life. I believe my experiences and thoughts about life will help the readers. I wrote it with the aim of bringing a change in this world. I want to help people understand the true meaning of their existence.
Download or read book The Handbook of Stress written by Cheryl D. Conrad and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-23 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Stress: Neuropsychological Effects on the Brain is an authoritative guide to the effects of stress on brain health, with a collection of articles that reflect the most recent findings in the field. Presents cutting edge findings on the effects of stress on brain health Examines stress influences on brain plasticity across the lifespan, including links to anxiety, PTSD, and clinical depression Features contributions by internationally recognized experts in the field of brain health Serves as an essential reference guide for scholars and advanced students
Download or read book Interactive Digital Narrative written by Hartmut Koenitz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is concerned with narrative in digital media that changes according to user input—Interactive Digital Narrative (IDN). It provides a broad overview of current issues and future directions in this multi-disciplinary field that includes humanities-based and computational perspectives. It assembles the voices of leading researchers and practitioners like Janet Murray, Marie-Laure Ryan, Scott Rettberg and Martin Rieser. In three sections, it covers history, theoretical perspectives and varieties of practice including narrative game design, with a special focus on changes in the power relationship between audience and author enabled by interactivity. After discussing the historical development of diverse forms, the book presents theoretical standpoints including a semiotic perspective, a proposal for a specific theoretical framework and an inquiry into the role of artificial intelligence. Finally, it analyses varieties of current practice from digital poetry to location-based applications, artistic experiments and expanded remakes of older narrative game titles.
Download or read book Learning to Love Midlife written by Chip Conley and published by Little, Brown Spark. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author and co-founder/CEO of The Modern Elder Academy “reminds us all to savor the wisdom, self-knowledge, and joy that accompanies [the middle decades] of our lives” (Father Richard Rohr) and “provides a clear blueprint for creating the lives we want” (Gretchen Rubin) The midlife crisis is the butt of so many jokes, but this long-derided life stage has an upside. What if we could reframe our thinking about the natural transition of midlife not as a crisis, but as a chrysalis—a time when something profound awakens in us, as we shed our skin, spread our wings, and pollinate our wisdom to the world? In Learning to Love Midlife, Chip Conley offers an alternative narrative to the way we commonly think of our 40s, 50s and 60s. Drawing on the latest social science research, inspiring stories, and timeless wisdom, he reveals 12 reasons why life gets better with age. They include: The relief of “my body doesn’t define me:” We finally grow comfortable in our own skin Stepping off the treadmill: We redefine what a successful life looks like The “Great Midlife Edit:” We let go of our emotional baggage, mindsets, and obligations that no longer serve us Growing whole: We begin to feel a part of something bigger than ourselves No matter where you are in your midlife journey, this perspective‑shifting guide will inspire you to find joy, purpose and success in the years that lie ahead—and how those years can be your best ones yet.
Download or read book Awakening at Midlife written by Kathleen A. Brehony and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997-09-01 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Midlife Metamorphosis written by Jim Rogers and published by Eloquent Books. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time in life when most of us expected to be married, with our kids almost ready to leave the house, and finally having the time to mend our fences and enjoy one another, many of us have instead found ourselves suddenly divorced and asking the question, 'Now what?' The disorienting world of singledom in midlife is not just difficult, it can be incredibly frightening as well. Midlife Metamorphosis provides a unique look at the process of moving forward with your heart from the viewpoint of a man who, after two failed marriages, began to dig deep for his own set of answers. Based on a ten-year introspective journey, it breaks down the process into small, well-understood and well-communicated steps while easily conveying these to the reader through many personal examples. It also explores many aspects of the midlife heart experience that few have previously thought to examine. Written in a conversational style, Midlife Metamorphosis leads the reader to a greater understanding of what has brought them to the bewildering maze of being suddenly single in midlife. With this approach, the reader is shown a way to find a greater, more meaningful love that will help lead them out of the confusion of midlife singledom and into fulfilling, romantically coupled love once more... and for some, truly for the first time. Jim Rogers found his mission, and true purpose in life, to be that of gaining a greater understanding of the deepest dynamics of heartfelt, healthy, and loving relationships. As his second marriage was imploding, he found himself asking many questions and, for the first time in his life, finally getting real answers. After a multi-year period of searching, studying, dating and applying all that had been learned in the laboratory of his life, Jim found himself with a unique set of knowledge that many claimed needed to be shared with all who found themselves in a similar predicament. Jim currently resides in Southern California. He can be found on the Internet at www.midlifeheart.com.
