Recipe for a Happy Midlife Transition

Ingredients:
1 part of knowing who you are
1 part of knowing who you are not
1 part of knowing what you want
1 part of knowing what you wish to be
1 part of knowing what you already have
1 part of choosing wisely from what you have
1 part of loving and thanking for ALL you have

Instructions:
Combine ingredients together gently and carefully, using Faith and Vision. Mix together with strong belief of the outcome until finely blended.
Use thoughts, words and actions for best results.
Bake until Blessed.
Give thanks again

Yield:
Unlimited Service

Donated by Diane Rosenback, RScP

Midlife Transition: learning to live with the shadow

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what makes midlife so unique and challenging for so many people and I’m coming to see that it is the time in our lives when we most have to deal with our shadow self. Up to that point, many of us have ignored it, or lived through it! – but at midlife, we begin to question what to throw away and what to keep. We are confronted with the parts of our lives that haven’t lived up to our expectation and we sometimes think things will never change – ‘we are the way we are’. It’s at times like this that I am reminded of a Continue reading “Midlife Transition: learning to live with the shadow”

How Your Beliefs Affect Your Happiness

By Gary Van Warmerdam
Understanding the Mind

As humans we live in two worlds. There is the external physical world of work, family and friends that we travel in. Then there is the world of our mind and imagination. It is a virtual reality that can at times appear and feel just as real. When it comes to our emotions the virtual world of our mind can often affect on our emotions more than the real world. If we want to be happy, we may not always be able to change the physical world or other people, but we can Continue reading “How Your Beliefs Affect Your Happiness”

Midlife Transition – Career Change

After working most of your adult life in the same field, there comes a time when two powerful words enter your mind: career change. And for working women considering a midlife transition, there’s a bit of advice Mark Twain left society about 100 years ago: “The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.”

Twain’s remarks are simple and succinct. If taking a chance on another career has become a priority, then it should be a dream job of sorts, or fairly close to it. There are dozens of reasons why Continue reading “Midlife Transition – Career Change”

Midlife Transformation

Most of us would rather go through a Midlife Transformation rather than a Midlife Crisis. In fact, I don’t believe we ever need to have a “CRISIS” when we understand the process of change. I have found help for this through a famous psychotherapist who taught several stages to change. Her name is Virginia Satir.

Satir’s model for change basically says:

Stage 1: Late Status Quo
Knowing what to expect, how to react, and how to behave because you Continue reading “Midlife Transformation”