Midlife Crisis

Unveiling The 'Flawed, Confused' Lives Behind The Facebook Version

Debra Ollivier | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: Reinvention, College Reunions, Deborah Copaken Kogan, The Red Book, Harvard Alumni, Baby Boomers, Facebook, Midlife Crisis, Fifty News

Reversals of fortune and the artifice of self-presentation are the subjects of author Deborah Copaken Kogan's superb new novel, "The Red Book."

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Have You Ever Dreamed Of Going to Culinary School?

Heidi Brod | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Culinary School, International-Culinary-Center, Chefs, Cooking Class, Midlife Crisis, Turning 40, Female Chefs, The Hunger Games, Food News

The only thing that would make 40 palatable was a new challenge. My best friend, Lisa, opted for a young boyfriend, but my husband would never approve.

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'Boundless Potential': How The Mature Brain Is Designed For Reinvention

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Rowley | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Reinvention, Mark Walton, Baby Boomers, Second Acts, Midlife Crisis, Slidepollajax, Midlife Crises, Career Changers, Second Careers, Mark Walton Boundless Potential, Fifty News

Mark Walton was in his late 20s when he became the first White House correspondent for the fledgling CNN. He won a Peabody award as a foreign correspo...

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Why Midlife Rocks Your World

Kathy Caprino | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Transition, Women, Midlife Crisis, Kathy Caprino, Life Change, Midlife Career Change, Aging, Midlife, Women in 50s, Fifty News

Realizing that your life is potentially more than half over is a jarring experience, and brings with it a sense of urgency to live more authentically and more joyfully.

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The Harley, Rugby, And Other Signs I'm In Denial About My Age

Chris Carey | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Retirement Age, Aging Gracefully, Aging, Aging-Gracefully, Retirement, Erectile Dysfunction, Turning 60 Years Old, Viagra, Midlife Crisis, Fifty News

My wife Mary and I recently celebrated our 60th birthdays. I recognized that I wasn't dealing particularly well with the transition. Here are six ways I have been in outright denial about my age.

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Reinvention and the Four Dream Killers of the Apocalypse

Dike Drummond, M.D. | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Reinvention, Personal Development, Midlife Crisis, Dreams, Dike Drummond, How to Change Your Life, Fifty News

We all have dreams and goals and fantasies. It is a central component of being alive. Yet most of us keep these visions tucked away, sleeping on the old Bucket List. Why is that?

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Is The Anti-Aging Industry Bad for Our Health?

Barbara Hannah Grufferman | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Turning 50, Peggy Lewis, The Best of Everything After 50, Women Over 50, Women After 50, Media for Boomers, Television for Women Over 50 Plastic Surgery, Plastic Surgery After 50, Health After 50, Midlife Crisis, Journal of Aging Studies, Baby Boomers, Anti-Aging Industry, Media Images of Women, Video, Health Post50, Fifty News

Have we created a society of "haves" and "have nots" based not so much on how much we have, but on how much we can spend on looking younger?

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Three Things to Do When the "F" Word Stops You Cold

Dike Drummond, M.D. | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: One Step at a Time, Baby Steps, Dike Drummond, Over Fifty, Overcoming Fear, Free From Fear, Midlife Reinvention, Midlife Crisis, Over 50, Mindfulness, Healthy Living News

There are simple tools that will help you reach new goals and literally reinvent yourself -- at any age -- despite the universal presence of fear.

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"The Invention Of Middle Age": A Cultural History

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Rowley | Posted 01.17.2012

Read More: Aging, Patricia Cohen, Middle Age, Midlife, In Our Prime: The Invention of Middle Age, Midlife Crisis, In Our Prime, Patricia-Cohen-New-York-Times, Fifty News

Middle age is a cultural fiction -- a construct that emerged in the last 150 years through a confluence of factors, including industrialization, moder...

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Get Messy...Make Mistakes

Dike Drummond, M.D. | Posted 02.04.2012

Read More: Make Mistakes, Midlife Crisis Tips, Frizzle Makes Mistakes, Midlife Crisis, Magic Schoolbus Book, Midlife Crisis Advice, Frizzle Magic Schoobus, Life Advice, Fifty News

How can a kid learn anything new without making a mess of it at first? And yet how often do we let our grown-up selves get messy or be in a situation where we might make a "mistake"?

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Is Your Midlife Just "A Long Slide Home?"

Douglas LaBier | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Baby Boomers, Depression, Love and Relationships, Personal Growth, Midlife, Midlife Crisis Men, Midlife Career Change, Midlife Crisis, Midlife Crisis Women, Fifty News

Many of 78 million baby boomers, now in the thick of midlife, are vulnerable to feeling demoralized about their lives. For some it's the classic "midlife crisis." But for many, it's more of a chronic, low-grade fever.

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6 Common Post50 Sex Myths

Evan Allis | Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Baby Boomers, Sexual Health, Erectile Dysfunction, Sex Myths, Menopause, Viagra, Andropause, Midlife Crisis, Empty Nest, Love Post50, Fifty News

Today's Post50s are breaking the mold when it comes to sex at midlife. Once upon a time, an older woman in touch with her sexuality was a punch line -...

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8 Ways We Improve With Age

Vivian Diller, Ph.D. | Posted 12.24.2011

Read More: Long-Term-Marriage, Midlife Crisis, Empty Nest, Siblings, Midlife, Reinvention, Aging, Healhty Aging, Beauty, Aging Appearance, Confidence, Ageless Beauty, Extended Family, Fifty News

When it comes to turning 50, "The Midlife Crisis" is as inaccurate -- and tiresome -- a cliché as "Reinvent Yourself" has become.

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10 Warning Signs You're Having A Midlife Crisis

The Huffington Post | Evan Allis | Posted 12.17.2011

Read More: Signs, Depression, Alcoholism, Menopause, Andropause, Health Post50, Signs of a Midlife Crisis, Midlife Crisis, Empty Nest, lovepost50, Fifty News

We've all been inundated with images of the midlife crisis: Harley-mounted, silver-haired 50-somethings riding off (reluctantly) into the sunset of th...

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Face It: Monikerless Murmurs

Michele Willens | Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Reinvention, Marriage Tips, Betty Friedan, Restlessness, Midlife Crisis, Marriage Advice, Women News

Are you too hearing more and more women saying either: they need time and space to themselves; they are happy when their spouses are traveling; they are taking trips with other women or alone?

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How To Cope With A Cheating Spouse

high50 | Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: Marriage, Infidelity, Cheating Spouse, Marital Problems, Midlife Crisis, Love Post50, Marriage Infidelity, Partner, Fifty News

Finding out that your partner is having an affair is devastating at any age, but if you’re in your fifties and you’ve been together for years the ...

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Is The 'Midlife Crisis' Just A Myth?

Scientific American | Jesse Bering | Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: Midlife Crisis, Midlife Crisis Myth, Baby Boomers, Middle Age, Boomers, Midlife, Fifty News

If you ask a person when "middle age" begins, the answer, not surprisingly, depends on the age of that respondent. American college-aged students ...

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The Bucket List Bullcrap Detector

Dike Drummond, M.D. | Posted 12.10.2011

Read More: Reinvention, Midlife Crisis, Three Hour Midlife Crisis, Dike Drummond, Bucket List, Fifty News

For most people, the Bucket List is just a source of frustration, a reminder of all the things you have wanted to do and have not done -- so far. The skillful use of your Bucket List is a powerful way to live your best life at any age.

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Look Before You Leap: 3 Rs of Midlife Reinvention

Vivian Diller, Ph.D. | Posted 12.07.2011

Read More: Reinvention, Baby Boomers, Divorce, Transformation, Fifty, Tipper and Al Gore, Eat, Eat Pray Love, Al and Tipper Gore Separation, Elizabeth Gilbert, Demi Moore, Midlife Crisis, Ashton Kutcher, Joy Behar Show, Julia Roberts, Rita Wilson, Fifty News

Before you jump at the chance for a midlife 'do-over,' you may want to consider these three essential psychological components to determine your readiness to take on major transformations at this stage of life.

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The Key To Avoiding A Midlfe Crisis?

www.dailymail.co.uk | Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Women, Friends, Avoiding Midlife Crisis, Best Friends, Midlife, Sanity, Midlife Crisis, Middle-Aged Women, Mid-Life Crisis, Fifty News

Most women treasure the time they spend with their closest girlfriends. And according to new research, it is exactly this that makes women in mid-l...

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Reaping The Rewards Of Marriage At Midlife

Second Act | Jane Ganahl | Posted 12.02.2011

Read More: Marriage, Midlife Crisis, Late Life Marriage, Second Marriage, Midlife Marriage, Love Post50, Weddings, Fifty News

One of my dearest friends from my teenage years stunned us all recently when she decided -- quite suddenly and quite happily -- to marry her first lov...

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Can Your Relationship Survive Midlfe?

Douglas LaBier | Posted 11.07.2011

Read More: Marriage, Baby Boomers, Romance, Sex, Midlife, Deepak Chopra, Midlife Crisis, Love, Intimacy, Style News

Whether you're entering a new relationship or hoping to resurrect your existing but flagging relationship, the upheavals and changes of midlife can make anyone pretty apprehensive about what lies ahead.

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Sending Your Daughter to College: Modeling a Life Less Ordinary

Julie Gray | Posted 10.31.2011

Read More: Raising Children, College, Woman-Over-40, Midlife, Mother-Dauther-Relationships, Midlife Women, Life After 50, Sending-Kids-to-College, Mothers Midlife, Teens, Mothers and Daughters, Midlife Crisis, Back to School, Women News

I used to say that there are two pillars of parenthood you couldn't imagine until you've had a child: guilt and worry. But there's a third pillar that most parents would never admit to: jealousy.

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How To Break Through Midlife Fears

Douglas LaBier | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Baby Boomers, Midlife Crisis, Midlife, Healthy Living Health News, Midlife Fears, Baby Boomers and Midlife, Consciousness, Healthy Living Spirit, Fears of Midlife, Baby Boomers and Purpose, Emotional Intelligence, Healthy Living News

What can help free you from that sense of sinking, sliding and stagnating -- the "big three" of midlife despair -- is first, learning to mentally reframe your current experience of loss, regret and the like.

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Sleeping Beauty Wakes Up - and She's 52

Dori Hartley | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: Midlife Crisis, Breast Cancer, Women-in-Mid-Life, Women News

It wasn't the cancer that did me in -- it was how I perceived my experience of it and what I did to destroy myself way after the disease was thoroughly removed from my body.

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