{"product_id":"midlife-maze-9781442272699","title":"Midlife Maze","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHave you found yourself wilting in midlife, and wondering what you might do to flourish in your remaining years? Have you lost your way in the midlife maze due to a significant loss? Did you lose your job or desired career advancement?  Did you separate or divorce?  Did your last child leave home?  Did your family experience a virtual storm of bankruptcy or lose your life savings in a financial meltdown? Did you or someone in your family experience the loss of good health?  Or did you weather the death of a family member, partner, or friend?  Your loss story is personal. Your path through winding passages during midlife is unique. Perhaps the most important encouragement for your grieving process is to know this simple fact: grieving is a natural healing response to loss rather than a pathological experience.       Midlife can be a time of reflection, rebellion, or reconnecting to old or new interests and activities. It can also be a time when losses start to happen or begin to pile up\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExceptionally well written, impressively informative, exceptionally well organized and presented, \"Midlife Maze: A Map to Recovery and Rediscovery after Loss\" is as thoughtful and thought-provoking as it is inspired and inspiring. Thoroughly accessible for the non-specialist general reader, and having extraordinary value for academia as well, \"Midlife Maze\" is unreservedly recommended for both community and academic library collections. * Midwest Book Review *\u003cbr\u003eJanis Clark Johnston’s professional life as a psychologist and therapist as well as her personal experiences of loss have prepared her well to guide the reader through the depths, challenges, and ultimate opportunities that accompany loss in midlife.  Combining scholarship with practical advice at every turn (a key inspiring concept), Johnston offers the reader a needed  helping hand through life’s inescapable losses. -- Thelma Reese, EdD, author, with Barbara Fleisher, of The New Senior Woman: Reinventing the Years Beyond Mid-Life; blogsite: www.ElderChicks.com\u003cbr\u003eIn Midlife Maze, Dr. Johnston identifies the inevitable losses which accumulate in the course of our lives, and reframes this potential victimage as a challenge to replenishment, renewal, and redefinition.  Moving from a recipient position to one who constructs a new life, and develops new resources, recovers one’s autonomy in the presence of loss. -- James Hollis, PhD, Jungian analyst, Washington, D. C.; author, Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction --  Midlife: The Afternoon of Life Part I:  “There’s a Hole in the Bucket….” 1.M -- Maneuvering Midlife 2.A --  Acclimating to Loss  3.P --  Pursuing a Personality beyond Loss   Part II:  “…With What Shall I Fix it?”  4.C – Celebrating Needs 5.R – Rearranging Personality Roles 6.E – Embracing Energy 7.A – Achieving  New Discipline Habits 8.T – Tapping into Creativity  9. I – Inviting Belonging Connections 10. V- Validating Ability 11. I – Involving an Inner Self   Part III:  Before “Kicking the Bucket,” Grab Your Bucket List and Enjoy!  12. T – Tickling Your Fancy  13. Y— Yearning for Joy  References","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48885644722519,"sku":"9781442272699","price":31.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/midlife-maze-9781442272699","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}