Men Navigating Midlife

Men Navigating Midlife is a self-help book written for men at, approaching or beyond midlife, and for anybody else who wishes to better understand men at midlife, including health professionals. It has been written using interviews of men to explore issues that are unique to men in midlife transition. It also discusses issues that are relevant to both men and women that were not covered in my women’s book. Chapters on Sex and Intimacy, You are Called to Your Vocation at Midlife, and Spiritual Awakening at Midlife are examples of writing that fall into this group.

Understandably, you might ask ‘How can a woman write a book about men?’ To write the men’s book I carried out intensive one to one interviews with men from diversified backgrounds, and then combined this with the extensive research I have carried out on midlife in the past four years. I then used the men’s stories very much as they told them to me to explore the themes that came out of the interviews. So I am acting as a connecting voice for these men to tell their story at midlife to others. I use these stories to give you:

• a vehicle to connect to your own story at midlife

• a psychological framework to help you understand why midlife is usually a time of dramatic change

• self-empowering tools you can use to assist yourself through midlife transition

In summary, Men Navigating Midlife is a book you can pick up when you are experiencing the confusion, anger, doubt and depression inevitable at midlife. It will normalize this experience for you by explaining in a psychologically accurate, yet accessible way the significance of these feelings and then offer you other men’s stories and strategies to work with these feelings and navigate yourself towards increasing clarity and confidence about what you want for the second half of your life.