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What woman hasn't looked in the mirror and wondered who was staring back at her? Or marveled at how grown up her children look? Or puzzled at how her friends are aging prematurely?
I'm Too Young to Be This Old (with over 150,000 copies sold) shows women how to face their changing lives with a spirit of fun and fearlessness. Poppy Smith leads readers through both the lighter side of midlife and the deeper issues that concern them, including
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2) When did I stop being Barbie & become Mrs. Potato Head?: learning to embrace the woman you've become
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Learn to accept and enjoy yourself as you are-- because God does.
3) Keep your brain alive: 83 neurobic exercises to help prevent memory loss and increase mental fitness
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Offers unusual tasks designed to stimulate brain cell growth.
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2019.
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"Women growing older contend with ageism, misogyny, and loss. Yet as Mary Pipher shows, most older women are deeply happy and filled with gratitude for the gifts of life. Their struggles help them grow into the authentic, empathetic, and wise people they have always wanted to be. In Women Rowing North, Pipher offers a timely examination of the cultural and developmental issues women face as they age. Drawing on her own experience as daughter, sister,...
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"How come I can never find my keys? Why don't I sleep as well as I used to? Why do my friends keep repeating the same stories? What can I do to keep my brain sharp? Scientists know. [This book], by developmental molecular biologist Dr. John Medina, gives you the facts, and the prescription to age well, in his signature engaging style. With so many discoveries over the years, science is literally changing our minds about the optimal care and feeding...
7) From strength to strength: finding success, happiness, and deep purpose in the second half of life
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"The roadmap for finding purpose, meaning, and success as we age, from bestselling author, Harvard professor, and the Atlantic's happiness columnist Arthur Brooks. Many of us assume that the more successful we are, the less susceptible we become to the sense of professional and social irrelevance that often accompanies aging. But the truth is, the greater our achievements and our attachment to them, the more we notice our decline, and the more painful...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Compnay
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[2021]
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English
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Is it possible to grow older without getting sicker? Can you look and feel fifty through your eighties and nineties? Barzilai's life's work is tackling the challenges of aging to delay and prevent the onset of all age-related diseases including 'the big four': diabetes, cancer, heart disease, and Alzheimer's. His studies include SuperAgers: individuals who maintain active lives well into their nineties and even beyond-- and reached that ripe old age...
13) Summary of Women Rowing North: Navigating Life's Currents and Flourishing as We Age (by Mary Pipher)
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Bloomsbury Publishing
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[2019]
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English
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ABOUT THIS SUMMARY: This is a very well-written summary and guide to the book, Women Rowing North, by Mary Pipher. This summary is intended to simplify the main book for you, for easy understanding. All the major points, strategies and lessons shared in the main book are carefully extracted and presented in this summary so you can access them quickly and easily. But note that this summary is meant to be a companion, not a replacement, to the main...
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Twelve
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2009
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English
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Part family memoir, part Studs Terkel, How To Live considers some unusual sources--deathbed confessions, late-in-life journals--as well as offering a rich compilation of interviews with the over-70 set to deliver a highly optimistic look at our dying days.
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Sterling
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�2007
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English
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"What is the value of a life deeply lived? Can fragments from the past help you navigate the future? What good is wisdom in a world bewitched by ephemera? Some of our best writers over 50 tackle these and other questions in this honest, hard-hitting collection about the search for meaning in the second half of life. In moving works of self-discovery, they illuminate the fine art of growing up and the power of experience to transform your life"--Publisher...
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