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A Different Kind of Midlife: Facing Feelings and Letting Go of Illusions

By Dr. Joe Dispenza

By our mid-30s or 40s, when the personality is complete, we have experienced much of what life has to offer. And as a result, we can pretty much anticipate the outcome of most experiences; we already know how they’re going to feel before we engage in them.

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Thoughts from the Heart of the Soul: Meditations on Emotional Awareness

In the national bestseller The Heart of the Soul, Gary Zukav and Linda Francis joined together to help us to develop a new emotional awareness that is central to our spiritual development.

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Gary Zukav, Linda Francis
2002
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Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life

Based on a far-reaching study of thousands of individuals, finding flow contends that we often walk through our days unaware and out of touch with our emotional lives.

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Mihály Csíkszentmihályi
1998
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The Language of Emotions: What Your Feelings Are Trying to Tell You

Emotions―especially the dark and dishonored ones―hold a tremendous amount of energy. We’ve all seen what happens when we repress or blindly express them.

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Karla McLaren
2010
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Embracing Anxiety: How to Access the Genius of This Vital Emotion

Are you struggling with anxiety? If so, you’ve probably tried the usual options—distraction, repression, medication, exercise, or just trying to ignore it. But anxiety evolved to help us.

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Karla McLaren
2020
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The Power of Surrender: Let Go and Energize Your Relationships, Success, and Well-Being

Are you longing for your life to be easier and more fun? Would you like to stop pushing, micromanaging, and forcing things so you can relax? What if you could enjoy what you have instead of always lusting for “more”? What if you could live in “the zone,” propelled by powerful currents...

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Judith Orloff
2015
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The Surrender Experiment: My Journey into Life’s Perfection

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Untethered Soul comes the astonishing true-life story about what happens when you just let go.

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Michael A. Singer
2025
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Living Your Unlived Life: Coping with Unrealized Dreams and Fulfilling Your Purpose in the Second Half of Life

In Living Your Unlived Life, the renowned therapist Robert A. Johnson, writing with longtime collaborator and fellow Jungian psychologist Jerry M.

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Robert A. Johnson, Jerry M. Ruhl
2009
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Dark Nights of the Soul: A Guide to Finding Your Way Through Life’s Ordeals

Moore shows how honoring periods of fragility as periods of incubation and positive opportunities to delve into the soul’s deepest needs can provide healing and a new understanding of life’s meaning.

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Thomas Moore
2005
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The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife

Why do so many go through so much disruption in their middle years? Why then? Why do we consider it to be a crisis? The Middle Passage presents us with an opportunity to reexamine our lives and to ask: "Who am I apart from my history and the roles I have played?" It is an occasion for redefining...

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James Hollis
1993
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Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up

What does it really mean to be a grown-up in today’s world? We assume that once we “get it together” with the right job, marry the right person, have children, and buy a home, all is settled and well.

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James Hollis
2006
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