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Title: Listening to Midlife by Mark Gerzon ISBN: 1-57062-168-3 Publisher: Shambhala Pub. Date: 05 March, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Midlife soul searching.
Comment: By midlife, many people derive their personal identities from college degrees, marriage, careers, children, and their material possessions. In our middle years, Freud says that we look for ourselves in work and love. "Inexplicable exhaustion, mysterious pain, insomnia, uncontrollable crying, profound dissatisfaction at work" are all symptoms of a midlife transition (p. 22). "Deny your body's message too long," Mark Gerzon warns, "and you may get sick. Deny your mind's warnings, and you may go crazy. Deny your soul too long, and you may lose it" (p. 36).
I arrived at this book adrift at 43, with my life in transition, yearning for a greater sense of authenticity in my life. "In the second half of life," Gerzon writes, "our old compasses no longer work. The magnetic fields alter. The new compass that we need cannot be held in our hand, only in our heart. We read it not with our mind alone, but with our soul . . . Now we yearn for wholeness" (p. 5). In his insightful examination of body, marriage, work, aging, our planet, and spirituality, Gerzon reassures us that "aging has meaning" (p. 182). He encourages to adjust our thinking to view a midlife transition as a natural opportunity for personal growth, rather than as a crisis. Seen this way, the "private, lonely, and often unchartered journey" (p. 107) through midlife becomes a time for "healing deep wounds, seeking our soul/mate, caring for our families, committing ourselves to a true Calling, respecting the aging process and our elders" (p. 220). It is a time, Gerzon writes, for having the "ultimate affair with the ultimate stranger: your shadow" (p. 109). Midlife is an opportunity for transformation, for facing the shadows of our personalty (p. 81), for paying attention to disillusionments (p. 109), for bringing heaven down into our daily lives (pp. 263-64), and for listening to our dreams, our "inner elders" (p. 274).
This five-star book offers wisdom and clarity to any reader attempting to make sense of the journey through midlife.
G. Merritt
Rating: 5
Summary: If your old compass is broken...
Comment: I discovered this book early in my crisis. Three years later I still routinely consult Gerzon's wisdom. I've read volumes trying to find my through what he calls The Forest Dark, and no words have rung truer than those found in Listening to Midlife. It's a masterpiece and, for those of us with a malfunctioning compass, a light to guide us through what can be the most terrifying time of adult life. His best advice: Have the Ultimate Affair with the Ultimate Stranger - Your Shadow.
Mark has been there, he knows the way through.
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent book for someone feeeling totally confused.
Comment: I was totally confused about where I was and where I wanted to go with the rest of my life. Mark Gerzon gives wonderful examples of others that have faced similar questions in their own life from Buzz Aldrin to many of his own everyday patients. Although not every chapter was of interest, I found this to be an excellent jumping off place for my own quest to integrate my "Shadow Side" with the successful life I had achieved so far. I wish I had read this before I started my own search for my "second half of my life" identity.
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Title: Awakening at Midlife: A Guide to Reviving Your Spirits, Recreating Your Life, and Returning to Your Truest Self by Kathleen A. Brehony ISBN: 1573226327 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Men in Midlife Crisis by Jim Conway ISBN: 1564766985 Publisher: Chariot Victor Pub Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: How to Survive Your Husband's Midlife Crisis: Strategies and Stories from the Midlife Wives Club by Gay Courter, Pat Gaudette ISBN: 0399528822 Publisher: Perigee Pub. Date: 06 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife (Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts, No 59) by James Hollis ISBN: 0919123600 Publisher: Inner City Books Pub. Date: March, 1993 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Death of a Hero, Birth of the Soul: Answering the Call of Midlife by John C. Robinson ISBN: 1571780432 Publisher: Council Oak Distribution Pub. Date: June, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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