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Book SynopsisHappiNest is the first book to present a detailed road map for navigating the spiritual and practical challenges that arise after your kids leave home. We are entering uncharted territory that is more complex and vastly different from the landscape our parents faced. We have more opportunities but also more obligations. Our young adults are taking longer to finish school, settle on careers, and become independent, requiring more support in their twenties and thirties. At the same time, our parents are living longer and needing us more. Trying to meet the demands of these surrounding generations is prompting many of us to dip into savings and postpone retirement. This book culls wisdom from interviews with more than 300 people, including psychologists, psychiatrists, sociologists, young adults, and empty nesters. It also unearths new research on today’s empty nesters that has been buried in studies on aging, relationships, and young adulthood. Creating a HappiNest takes hard work, and it is different for everyone. This book will show you how to relate better to your young adults, help them cope with obstacles they may face, and manage the household if your kids are among the one in three who “boomerang” back home. It will help you discover a renaissance in your marriage or, perhaps, handle empty nest divorce. It will show you how to cultivate friend networks and avoid suffocating your spouse. It will guide you to find new purpose and meaning after the kids leave. HappiNest will help you see the path ahead and find the hidden treasures along the way.
Trade ReviewLife has many seasons, each rich in opportunities to learn, grow and, ultimately, to thrive amid its challenges. HappiNest will help you navigate this next season - to forge richer relationships, cultivate new passions, and to embrace its many possibilities with a newfound sense of courage, clarity and adventure. -- Margie Warrell, Bestselling author of "Train The Brave" and "Make Your Mark"
HappiNest: Finding Fulfillment After Your Kids Leave Home is a valuable resource for empty nesters. Judy Holland has expertly curated interviews, quotes, research studies and statistics to comfort, inspire and encourage those of us who are heading into or who are in the empty nest. -- Christine Maziarz, Your Empty Nest Coach
Regardless of how times change or how fast paced our lives become, there are few things that shake up our world quite as much as the arrival of a new member of the household. However, for some parents, the departure of their youngest, or only, child and the resultant “empty nest” can be as challenging an experience as the child’s arrival had been. This book provides the type of comfort, content, and stabilizing support that many parents seek when they are trying to figure out who they have become (and who their partners have become) in the years since children first arrived on the scene. The book provides a multitude of different answers to the questions that we all want to ask of those who have been through an experience we are just now facing, “What was it like for you? What did you do to cope?” With the variety of stories included in the book, Judy Holland provides a wealth of support and suggestions to help readers effectively manage this transition. Just like the title promises, the book absolutely delivers engaging and inspiring ideas that will set the reader on a path to a new type of personal fulfilment. -- Suzanne Degges-White, Professor and Chair, Department of Counseling and Higher Education, Northern Illinois University, author of "Sisters and Brothers for Life: Making Sense of Sibling Relationships in Adulthood"
Becoming an empty nester poses an existential challenge to many parents: when kids leave, so does a major source of purpose for parents. Fortunately, they can now turn to HappiNest to help them navigate this transition. Judy Holland’s book draws on fascinating psychology research and tells the stories many empty nesters to show how people can redefine their purpose and identity after the kids leave home. This book will bring hope and comfort to those parents searching for meaning in the second half of life. -- Emily Esfahani Smith, author of "The Power of Meaning"
