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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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Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

Filled with secrets from a therapist’s toolkit, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before teaches you how to fortify and maintain your mental health, even in the most trying of times.

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Julie Smith
2025
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Trained Not to Cry: The Challenge of Being a Soldier | Richard Doss | TEDxNaperville

Members and Veterans of the US Armed Forces have unacceptably high suicide rates. Why? It’s not the combat experience like one would suggest, but a much more complex issue that needs to be talked about.

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2016
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The Big Ordeal

Coping with cancer is hard. It is an emotional ordeal as well as a physical one, with known and somewhat predictable psychological responses. And yet, patients often feel isolated and alone when dealing with the stress, anxiety, depression, and existential crises so typical with a cancer diagnosis.

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Cynthia Hayes
2025
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Coping with Cancer: DBT Skills to Manage Your Emotions—and Balance Uncertainty with Hope

This compassionate book presents dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), a proven psychological intervention that Marsha M. Linehan developed specifically for the impossible situations of life--and which she and Elizabeth Cohn Stuntz now apply to the unique challenges of cancer for the first time.

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Elizabeth Cohn Stuntz, Marsha M. Linehan
2025
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Andrew Solomon: How the Worst Moments in Our Lives Make Us Who We Are

Writer Andrew Solomon has spent his career telling stories of the hardships of others. Now he turns inward, bringing us into a childhood of struggle, while also spinning tales of the courageous people he’s met in the years since.

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Andrew Solomon
2014
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How Elizabeth Gilbert Filled an “Eternal Black Hole of Despair” | Belief | Oprah Winfrey Network

Best-selling author Elizabeth Gilbert says she wasn’t truly stirred by religion until she was 30 years old.

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Elizabeth Gilbert
2015
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Michael Bernard Beckwith’s Prayer for When You’re Feeling Stuck | Super Soul Sunday | OWN

Spiritual pioneer Dr. Michael Bernard Beckwith shares a simple yet powerful prayer that can help you transcend your problems.

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Michael Bernard Beckwith
2016
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26:48

James Hollis: Understanding the Mid Life Crisis | Living Smart with Patricia Gras

Living Smart with Patricia Gras interviews Jungian Analyst and Author James Hollis PhD. Author of the Middle Passage, discusses how we find meaning in the second half of life. Guest: Dr. James Hollis, PhD Topic: The Middle Passage

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James Hollis
2011
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Man’s Search for Meaning

Viktor Frankl’s riveting account of his time in the Nazi concentration camps, and his insightful exploration of the human will to find meaning in spite of the worst adversity, has offered solace and guidance to generations of readers since it was first published in 1946.

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Viktor Frankl
2006
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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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Midlife Crisis