Navigating Midlife: women becoming themselves

Navigating Midlife: Women Becoming Themselves is a self-help book written for women at midlife, for women going through other significant change and for professionals working with women.

I draw on my own midlife journey as well as extensive research I have carried out to explain why midlife is a time of significant psychological development. I explore themes that are unique to women in midlife transition and also discuss issues that are relevant to both men and women at midlife. Through personal examples and case studies, I demonstrate self-empowering tools women can use to navigate themselves through this transition towards a feeling of balance and of being centred, and increasing clarity and confidence about who they are and what they want for the second half of their life.

From my professional and personal observation, women at midlife rarely receive advice or information based on their specific psychological development needs at midlife. When they experience the normal turbulent feelings that are signalling the desire for change as they enter midlife transition, there is typically a focus on such areas as menopause, diet, the empty nest syndrome and relationships in general. In contrast, Navigating Midlife: Women Becoming Themselves explores the inner, psychological journey women need to make if they are to create a personally meaningful second half of life.

In summary , you can pick up Navigating Midlife: Women Becoming Themselves when you are experiencing the confusion, anger, doubt and depression inevitable at midlife transition. It will:

• normalize this experience for you by explaining in a psychologically accurate, yet accessible way the significance of these feelings

• offer you strategies to work with these feelings so you can navigate yourself towards a second half of life full of personal meaning, vitality and passion.