For years I’ve been saying that midlife is the same as adolescence—but in reverse. Your body is doing strange things, you can’t stop crying, you notice all your relationships are changing, you no longer know who you are or what you want, and you don’t know why. Life-stage expert, gerontologist and author, Barbara Waxman, decided to make that observation official with her book “The Middlescence Manifesto: Igniting the Passion of Midlife” [https://amzn.to/3fOeZbb]. “In 1900 life expectancy was 47,” she tells me. “Now, it’s in your 80s. The [extra] years are not at the end of life, the decrepit years, but are showing up in the middle markers. It starts at 45.” Waxman says, “women gain power in Middlescence…[have] more agency. They want to do what [they] care about and care less about what others think.” Waxman believes now is the “time to discern what you care about…so you can show up with a powerful ‘yes!’”
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#181 Is Your “Perfect” Daughter Hiding Something From You? (Caralena Peterson)
#180 How to Make a Leap in Your Career Reinvention (Dana Hilmer & Wendy Perrotti)
#179 Stop Letting Fear Guide You! (Jessica Joines)
#178 Reinventing Your Creativity as a Luxury Business (Jane Pollak)
#177 Teaching Others How to Deal with their Anger (Doug Noll)
#176 Reinventing Your Job Search in Your 40s, 50, and 60s (Gillian Williams)
#175 When Trauma Forces Your Reinvention (Carrington Smith)
#174 When Injury Leads to Innovation (Ivy Slater)
#173 Helping Women Scale Their Business to $1 Million (Eleanor Beaton)
#172 From Famous Family to Fashion Pioneer (Liz Lange)
#171 Reinventing Yourself All Over Again From Scratch (Kathleen Smith)
#170: Her Reinvention as a Writer Happened at 63 (Stephanie Raffelock)
#169: When an Economic Upheaval Forces You to Reinvent Your Career (Susan Schoenberger)
#168 From Nun to Fortune 500 Founder: How One Woman Overcame Her Fear of Reinvention (Ellen Snee)
#167: Reinventing After 50 to Recover Your Life’s Passion (Jennifer Lewis McKay)
#166: How to Reinvent Your Relationship to Your Children’s Education (Caitlin Meister)
#165: When Job Loss Leads to Understanding Your Own Story (Kate Eckman)
#164: Reinventing Your Sleep During Menopause: Solutions! (Hasti Nazem)
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