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Midlife Crisis books

Below are the best books we could find on Midlife Crisis.

A midlife crisis occurs in people of middle age (approximately 45 to 65 years). Typically, one is struggling with some sense of frustration at the trajectory of one’s life, a sudden challenge to self-identity or self-confidence, or with an experience of one’s own mortality. Popular representations of a midlife crisis usually involve rejecting some level of personal responsibility in favor of pursuing something impractical but more fun, even if it has negative repercussions on long-established relationships, jobs, and lifestyles. But for others, a midlife crisis can bring about debilitating depression or intense bouts of anxiety. Regardless of its presentation, a midlife crisis can also be the catalyst for a search for greater meaning and perspective.

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Living an Examined Life: Wisdom for the Second Half of the Journey

How do you define "growing up"? Does it mean you achieve certain cultural benchmarks—a steady income, paying taxes, marriage, and children? Or does it mean leaving behind the expectations of others and growing into the person you were meant to be? If you find yourself in a career, place,...

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Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife

As seen on OWN’s Super Soul Sunday! The need for change as we get older—an emotional pressure for one phase of our lives to transition into another—is a human phenomenon, neither male nor female.

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It’s Never Too Late to Begin Again: Discovering Creativity and Meaning at Midlife and Beyond

Julia Cameron has inspired millions with her bestseller on creativity, The Artist’s Way. In It’s Never Too Late to Begin Again, she turns her eye to a segment of the population that, ironically, while they have more time to be creative, are often reluctant or intimidated by the creative process.

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How to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life

Much more than a pep talk about maintaining a youthful attitude in our Second Prime, How to Make the Rest of Your Life the Best of Your Life provides tools we can use: strategies, self-tests, worksheets and resources, plus dozens of inspiring stories and humorous anecdotes.

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Trudge: A Midlife Crisis on the John Muir Trail

Lori Oliver-Tierney is every woman with a dream. She is fifty, asthmatic, overweight, with arthritic knees. And like so many married women with children, she’s lost herself.

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Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life

At last, this is your story. You'll recognize yourself, your friends, and your loves. You'll see how to use each life crisis as an opportunity for creative change -- to grow to your full potential.

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Midlife: A Philosophical Guide

How can you reconcile yourself with the lives you will never lead, with possibilities foreclosed, and with nostalgia for lost youth? How can you accept the failings of the past, the sense of futility in the tasks that consume the present, and the prospect of death that blights the future? In this...

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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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Life Reimagined: The Science, Art, and Opportunity of Midlife

There’s no such thing as an inevitable midlife crisis, Barbara Bradley Hagerty writes in this provocative, hopeful book. It’s a myth, an illusion. New scientific research explodes the fable that midlife is a time when things start to go downhill for everybody.

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The Second Half of Life: Opening the Eight Gates of Wisdom

When you find the courage to change at midlife, a miracle happens. Your character is opened, deepened, strengthened, softened. You return to your soul's highest values.

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