By Dr. James Hollis — 2010
I suggest that the single most important task of the second half of life is the recovery of personal authority, and mobilizing the courage and resources to live our truth in the world.
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A midlife crisis of the soulJung Center director offers insight into the process of finding true meaning later in life.
Some tips to help navigate through this phase of life.
Midlife malaise is common, but take heart: Happiness tends to rebound as we get older, and there are ways to cope in the meantime.
A midlife crisis is inevitable, all you can do is being prepared.
Midlife can be the unhappiest time in a person's life.
Plenty of others before you have experienced similar crises and made it through stronger on the other end. According to 15 members of Forbes Coaches Council, here are some telltale signs that you're having a mid-life crisis, along with their best advice for surviving this phase.
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Job changes and stress management can positively affect midlife health.
In “Midlife: A Philosophical Guide” (Princeton), he examines his own freakout. “Midlife” has a self-soothing quality: it is, Setiya writes, “a self-help book in that it is an attempt to help myself.” By methodically analyzing his own unease, he hopes to lessen its hold on him.
What a growing body of research reveals about the biology of human happiness—and how to navigate the (temporary) slump in middle age.