Tag: midlife transitions
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What does a 21st-century “Midlife Crisis” look like?
The article I’ve copied below is from 2019, but its truths do not seem outdated — so I thought I would share. As Ms. Williams notes — citing a prominent expert — because we’ve made such a cliche of midlife: “The period between adolescence and old age has been so disregarded by researchers… that the…
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Sharing my Midlife Story
As I hope I’ve made clear — I’m no expert here; I’m just hoping to create a place that we can share stories, and build a community of support during our midlife journeys. I might as well start with my own —-LOL. Would love to hear if it resonates — or not. Please share your…
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Is The Fabelmans actually a Midlife story?
First, go see Steven Spielberg’s new movie. It’s a beautiful movie. Spoiler alert — scenes are discussed below LOL The movie is about so many things. Clearly it is a coming of age story: A story about youth, its cruelties, including antisemitism; coming to understand one’s family, one’s parents as real and complicated adults; nascent…
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Are you still in midlife… and what are you going to do about that?
According to Wikipedia — “The exact range is disputed and can be considered of arbitrary nature, but the general consensus has placed middle age as the age range from around 40 until 60, with about 5 years of leeway on either side.” Psychology Today says — “Midlife or middle age is that transitional period of…
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Conversation with Midlife Mentor Helene Stelian
I hope you will check out this conversation my sister — Paula Brand — and I had with the wonderful midlife mentor Helene Stelian. Paula and I both published books the same day! They seem so different: Paula’s book is a fantastic guide to help women through midlife career transition; mine a two-book romance novel…
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A Letter to My 40-Something Self
When I was promoting my new book series: A Midlife Romance, I was asked to write — as a guest blog post— a letter to myself at a different age. I choose to write to the self I was about 10 years ago. Ten years goes by fast, and with each new decade the horizon…
Sharing Midlife Stories 