‘Crisis or Transition?’
Career Advice for Your Midlife Crisis: 7 Tips
You’ve enjoyed your career for the past twenty years – maybe more. And now you’re wondering: Maybe it’s time to switch gears. A whole new career. Work at home. Retire. Or maybe you’re forced to revise your career due to layoffs or transfers. More »
Awakening at Midlife
In her classic book, Awakening at Midlife, Jungian analyst Kathleen Brehony tells the story of a successful attorney, who at 39, relates that he’s not actively unhappy, he just feels empty, that something is missing. Soon after, he experiences a heart pounding anxiety attack, and can’t understand what happened to his successful and ordered life. More »
Mid-Life Crisis and the Call of Vocation
The “mid-life crisis” is often the focus of jokes and derision, but results of psychological research contradict the popular notion that mid-life crisis results from emotional instability. More »
Age Gracefully – Dealing With Your Mid Life Crisis
The mid life crisis – are you undergoing or experiencing it right now? Although this term is already commonly used here and everywhere, one way or another not all experience this and it’s dissimilar for males and females. More »
Retirement in the Twenty-First Century – Mid Life Crisis or Second Growth?
Because of the image it conjures, we’ve come to dislike the word ‘retire’. Marketing people, authors and psychologists are trying different words for this period, such as; reinvent, rewire, retool, and rejuvenate to find an acceptable replacement. More »
Stress Management in Midlife Crisis – Danger and Opportunity
Whether you are a man or a woman, the feelings that come with midlife crisis can be similar. Disillusionment, doubt, unhappiness, restlessness and disappointment are some of the common characteristics. Many people report a kind of uneasiness that they just can’t name. More »
A Radical Approach to Any Midlife Crisis
Many years ago I read a book that was one of the most eye-opening and personally impact-full books I’ve ever read – and I read all the time. It’s by a man named Wally Minto and it’s called The Results Book. I’d like to introduce you to some of his ideas. More »
How a Midlife Crisis Can Improve Your Life
They may be just three short words but they are enough to make some of us break out into a cold sweat and catapult others headlong into a midlife identity crisis. The words responsible for such strong reactions form a deceptively simple question: ‘Who am I?’ More »
Warding Off the Signs of Midlife Crisis
Midlife can be an awesome time for true transformation. I like to use the words “midlife transition” rather than “midlife crisis”. So, the first thing you want to do is to be certain to identify the signs. That way you can use this time of life to become something greater. More »
Midlife Transition – The Benefits of Life-Long Learning As a Way of Avoiding Midlife Crisis
I don’t think I could ever really have a midlife ‘crisis’ – because a crisis implies you don’t know what to do. When I don’t know what to do, I have always found a way to find out whether that’s about something related to health, money, or anything that effects my career or relationships. More »
Midlife Dating Tip – Accept Your Changing Body And Reject Midlife Crisis
Middle age can be a challenging time for dating and yet at the same time you may feel exhilarated to get out there and meet people. Unfortunately the media wants to snuff out your excitement because you no longer look 20 years old. More »
Midlife Crisis Or Opportunity?
Midlife doesn’t have to signal crisis in a marriage and midlife issues probably won’t cause major disruption for the majority of marriages. However, if you are here because your marriage is failing and you or your spouse are middle aged, midlife crisis might be the term that will best describe what you’re going through. More »
Midlife Crisis Symptoms – Baby Boomers Can Turn Crisis Into Triumph
Midlife crisis symptoms can seem to come out of nowhere. More common for men than women, midlife crisis symptoms can turn your life upside down. More »
How To Avoid A Midlife Crisis – Choose A Simple Life
The other day I happened upon an article on my MSN homepage titled “How To Have a Midlife Crisis,” by Hugh O’Neil. I invite you to read his article, as it is both enlightening and immensely entertaining. Then, just last night, our local news featured a story on the whole fact vs. myth of the dreaded midlife crisis. More »
Avoid a Midlife Crisis by Making a Bucket List
There are a lot of people today who are talking about the end of the Mayan calendar which takes place in the year 2012. Some are confusing it with the end of the world. Others are saying, it is the end of the world as we know it. What world are we going to create for ourselves? More »
Entering Midlife
There are some birthdays that are more dangerous than others. Turning 40 can be a major shock to men and women and it can start the slide into midlife crisis if they are unable to cope with aging and their own mortality issues. More »
Facing Our Mortality
Middle age is a dangerous time for many marriages. It certainly was for mine. I faced my own mortality in my middle thirties. When it finally became very clear to me that my time on earth was limited, I anguished over staying in a bad marriage or taking a chance on a new life on my own. Just shy of my 39th birthday, I ended my first marriage. More »
Revising Their Lives At Midlife
Middle age is a seriously dangerous time for marriages. Men and women are shocked to hear their spouse say “I love you but I’m not in love with you” as they head out the door. Some spouses leave home alone. Others have someone waiting for them. More »