“Retreating into yourself to find purpose can be like straddling a dock and a boat that is moving away. We are pulled in opposite directions by the intense desire of the mind for human involvement and the equally intense need of the soul for its own company. In the…
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Book Review: Leaving the hall Light On by Madeline Sharples
Living with Mental Illness and Surviving Suicide – One Mother’s Story Leaving the Hall Light On, A Mother’s Memoir of Living with Her Son’s Bipolar Disorder and Surviving His Suicide is the powerful, heart wrenching story of one women’s journey through 17 years as parent to a son with a bi-polar disorder.…
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I began to think about “spaces” this morning after reading a post by Laurie, one of my favorite bloggers. She is blessed with an abundance of courage and enthusiasm for life. She and her husband recently picked up and moved from the Midwest to Boise, ID. This is a popular…
View More SpacesEmbrace Your Child’s Heart
The midlife transformation that begins in earnest at fifty, and that many of us have already spent a decade or more navigating, is a turning point for many. The dark, confusing period of time, during which everything around us is shifting, is so disconcerting that it drives us every day,…
View More Embrace Your Child’s HeartWe Have the Key
“So often time it happens, we all live our life in chains, and we never even know we have the key.” The Eagles, Already Gone (Quote taken from Aging Abundantly’s A Little Book of Hope) Sometimes it takes a major crisis in our lives to wake us up.…
View More We Have the KeyLearn to Listen to Your Heart
One of the most important things we can do to create change in our lives, at midlife and beyond, is to learn to listen to our hearts. I paid lip service to this idea for years. I thought I was listening to myself, but I came to realize that I…
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