Midlife

Welcome to the Club
How to Survive Your Husband's Midlife Crisis: Strategies and Stories from the Midlife Wives Club
by Pat Gaudette, Gay Courter
A midlife crisis can devour a relationship. The Midlife Wives Club is a supportive online sisterhood for midlife mates-a place to vent some steam, share advice, or just get a reminder that they're not alone. In this guide, readers find wisdom from both

The Archetypes of Midlife Crisis
The Breaking Point : How Female Midlife Crisis Is Transforming Today's Women
by Sue Shellenbarger
The Adventurer. Many women seek the catharsis of physical adventure or bold travel at midlife. In endeavors ranging from skydiving to hiking in the Andes, the woman in the Adventurer role strives to conquer her fears and transcend old limits.

Introduction
How Not to Stay Single After 40: The Secret to Finding Passion, Love, and Fulfillment-At Last!
by Nita Tucker
This book is for women over the age of forty who want to find a loving, passionate, and nurturing relationship. It is not about finding an adequate relationship, one that is good enough for someone my age, but a stellar, better-than-your-dreams, awesome

Not for Teenagers Only: The Rise of Midlife Eating Problems
Runaway Eating: The 8-Point Plan to Conquer Adult Food and Weight Obsessions
by Cynthia M. Bulik, PH.D., Nadine Taylor, M.S., R.D.
Problematic eating has long been considered the almost exclusive territory of troubled teenage girls and young women. We've all read about Karen Carpenter's self-induced starvation and Princess Diana's bingeing and purging.

Cancer
The Sexy Years: Discover the Hormone Connection: The Secret to Fabulous Sex, Great Health, and Vitality, for Women and Men
by Suzanne Somers
The last words I ever thought I'd hear about myself were 'You have breast cancer.' It was as though someone had dropped a load of lead on my head. I felt stunned. This is something that happens to other people, I thought. Not me.

Chapter 7
The Magic of Forgiveness: Emotional Freedom and Transformation at Midlife, A Book for Women
by Tian Dayton, Ph.D.
Unconsciously, we're all writing the story of our own lives. It's important that we unearth the details of our unresolved pain, tease out the meaning that we've made of the events of our lives and share our stories with others.

When Is It My Time?
Sex and the Seasoned Woman : Pursuing the Passionate Life
by Gail Sheehy
My first glimpse of what I came to recognize as a seasoned woman came in a chance encounter at an Oakland restaurant. A popular entertainer who was seated at the next table overheard me talking with my husband about my book.

The Call of the Authentic Self
If Not Now when: Reclaiming Ourselves at Midlife
by Stephanie Marston
As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself every day. This is sometimes disconcerting for those around you, but a great relief to the person

Meet Your Metabolic Mix-Up

The Midlife Miracle Diet is your road map to a healthier, more vibrant, and more fulfilling way of life. The secret to the diet is an eating plan that controls blood sugar and limits carbohydrates-without deprivation and unrealistic restrictions.

What Is the Quarterlife Crisis?
Quarterlife Crisis: The Unique Challenges of Life in Your Twenties
by Alexandra Robbins, Abby Wilner
The quarterlife crisis and the midlife crisis stem from the same basic problem, but the resulting panic couldn't be more opposite. At their cores, both the quarterlife crisis and the midlife crisis are about a major life change.

Madness and Method: Predictable Crises of Adult Life
Passages
by Gail Sheehy
Without warning, in the middle of my thirties, i had a breakdown of nerve. It never occurred to me that while winging along in my happiest and most productive stage, all of a sudden simply staying afloat would require a massive exertion of will.

She Who Once Was
Kiss Tomorrow Hello
by Kim Barnes, Claire Davis
We were standing at the kitchen sink, chopping vegetables for a salad, when Martha announced her plan. She'd thought about it for months, she said. Maybe years. I regretted my response immediately, and to this day still regret it. Just listen to me.

Women in Second Adulthood
Inventing the Rest of Our Lives: Women in Second Adulthood
by Suzanne Levine
My first step into Second Adulthood was backward off a ninety-foot cliff. On impulse, I had signed up for an Outward Bound program and found myself poised in full rappelling gear - harness, helmet, and guide rope - to walk down the face of what could just

The New Stage of Life
Inventing the Rest of Our Lives: Women in Second Adulthood
by Suzanne Levine
In many respects, we have been here before. Thirty years ago, at the beginning of our first adulthood, we were also on the verge of big changes; we were struggling to address what Betty Friedan had identified as The Problem That Has No Name the dismissive

You Are Not Who You Were, Only Older
Inventing the Rest of Our Lives: Women in Second Adulthood
by Suzanne Levine
The most important discovery I've made about Second Adulthood is that a woman entering this new stage is not the same one who set up her first adulthood life. We are approaching the next frontier as women with new ideas and responses, whose priorities are

Work That Works for You
Thinking About Tomorrow: Reinventing Yourself at Midlife
by Susan Crandell
Midlife is a time for spreading your wings, not clipping them. In Thinking About Tomorrow, Susan Crandell profiles forty-five women and men who have re-imagined and reengineered their lives.

The Journey
Inventing the Rest of Our Lives: Women in Second Adulthood
by Suzanne Levine
So, we are a new kind of generation. At the same time each of us is a new woman to herself. No wonder the journey begins in a torrent of confusion. Many women find themselves at the edge of the cliff before they even realize something is happening.