Loneliness

According to the US surgeon general Vivek Murthy, there’s a loneliness epidemic. The data for loneliness for men, for youth, and for aging people is abundant and being revised, replayed, ...

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Jeff Hamaoui

Loneliness

Midlife as Mythic Quest: Finding the Meaning in Your Life’s Journey

“The problem in middle life, when the body has reached its climax of power and begins to decline, is to identify yourself, not with the body, which is falling away, ...

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Chip Conley

Midlife as Mythic Quest: Finding the Meaning in Your Life’s Journey

The Exiled Heir: Reclaiming Your Hidden Power at Midlife

About all those babies in baskets floating down rivers... Midlife has a way of making you feel like something is missing. A quiet dissatisfaction creeps in. A restlessness. Sometimes you ...

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Ben Katt

The Exiled Heir: Reclaiming Your Hidden Power at Midlife

Balance

When I was a young babe, my family moved to Spain. I attended pre-school in the picturesque town of Santiago de Compostela where I wore one shoe that had an ...

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Jeff Krasno

Balance

The Karuna Project: Grief, Growth & Compassion

I’ve been journaling since I was eleven years old, ever since I received my first diary. That small, private space between its covers became my sanctuary – a place where I ...

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Claudia Coenen

The Karuna Project: Grief, Growth & Compassion

How Music Can Bridge Generational Differences

With so much driving us apart, music offers opportunities for solace and bridge-building.Intergenerational duets are having a moment.Paul Simon, 83, and Sabrina Carpenter, 58 years younger, cold-opened Saturday Night Live’s 50th ...

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Marc Freedman

How Music Can Bridge Generational Differences

The Secret of an EPIC Partnership

I invented the Decade Game when I was eight years old to imagine who I would become when I was 18 and liberated from childhood. Ever since, I’ve had a ...

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Carolyn Buck Luce

The Secret of an EPIC Partnership

The Weight of the Unseen: Unpacking Invisible Labor and How to Reclaim Your Time

Every now and again, you discover a term that, by its mere appearance, changes everything. One of those terms is invisible labor. It describes the quiet mental, emotional, and interpersonal work ...

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Kelly Wendorf

The Weight of the Unseen: Unpacking Invisible Labor and How to Reclaim Your Time

Attuning to Midlife: An Enneagram Journey for Inner Harmony

If you’ve been pondering the mysteries of midlife, you’re certainly not alone. As I consider the whole topic of midlife, one of the first things that arises is the question ...

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Russ Hudson

Attuning to Midlife: An Enneagram Journey for Inner Harmony

Riding the Waves of Change – Learning to Surf at 60

The only thing I was certain of before arriving at the beachfront campus of Modern Elder Academy in Baja, Mexico, was that I wouldn’t be surfing. I was more than ...

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Penny Plautz

Riding the Waves of Change – Learning to Surf at 60