Free Resources
Midlife Journey Materials
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BOOK: If Women Rose Rooted: A Life-Changing Journey to Authenticity and Belonging
By Sharon Blackie -
NY TIMES ARTICLE: "How to Grow Old Like Isabella Rossellini"
By Lulu Garcia-Navarro -
BOOK: A Shift in Being: The Art and Practices of Deep Transformational Coaching
By Leon Vanderpol -
COACHES RISING PODCAST: The Healing Nature of Deep Transformational Coaching
Host: Joel Monk
Guest: Leon Vanderpol -
BOOK: The Tao of Equus: A Woman's Journey of Healing and Transformation through the Way of the Horse
By Linda Kohanov
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BOOK: The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife
By Marianne Williamson
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BOOK: Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal
By Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D.
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BOOK: The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life
By Lisa Miller, Ph.D.
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BOOK: The Wild Woman's Way: Reconnect to Your Body's Wisdom
By Michaela Boehm
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BOOK: Worthy
By: Jada Pinkett Smith
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TALK SHOW: Red Table Talk ("Our Unique Union (Part 2)")
Jada Pinkett Smith, her mom, Adrienne, daughter, Willow, and husband, Will, have a candid conversation about Jada’s “midlife crisis” at 40
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VIDEO: "Se Cree Joven" / "She Thinks She's Young"
By Alice Bag (long-time LA punk rocker)
Inspiration
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.”
— Marianne Williamson
“If the path before you is clear,
you're probably on someone else's.”
— Joseph Campbell
“We cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life's morning, for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true, at evening will have become a lie."
— Carl Jung
Staring into the vast reflecting pools of the equine mind, I realized that healing was less about helping someone analyze her childhood, or work toward some preconceived goal, than reconnecting with the world from a position of empowerment and compassion, expanding her awareness to see things as they were, moment to moment. Only from the vantage point of fully experiencing and participating in the present did the past make sense and the future show its potential.
—Linda Kohanov
Silence results naturally when we slow it all down and sync with the rhythm of life and Spirit. Silence arises when we nurture healing spaces, because deep silence is a healing space.
—Leon Vanderpol
“Who would be better to help create a new story for the planet than those of us who just happen to be involved with creating a new story for ourselves? A problem of midlife is the temptation to be redundant, simply imitating ourselves by doing the same things we’ve always done but with less verve. But the pulse of the moment—both personally and globally—is to let go now of what needs to be let go of, to disenthrall ourselves of what used to be, and embrace a radically new kind of life.”
—Marianne Williamson
