The Middlepause: On turning fifty

[Marina Benjamin] Í The Middlepause: On turning fifty ☆ Download Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. The Middlepause: On turning fifty S. Lynn McAllister said Three Stars. Gave it as a gift.. Amazon Customer said Four Stars. honest description of women health a must read intelligent. P. Stern said A welcome reflection on menopause. When I came across this book I was thrilled to find a door opening into my wifes menopausal experience. For those of us outside this profound change, Benjamins is likely to be the best description we have: she leaves us with insight, understanding, and empathy. Her account -- well crafted, solidly

The Middlepause: On turning fifty

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Rating : 4.62 (884 Votes)
Asin : B07147DKGX
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Number of Pages : 229 Pages
Publish Date : 2015-02-27
Language : English

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Attending to ageing parents, the shock of bereavement, parenting a teenager and her own health woes, she emerges into a new definition of herself as daughter, mother, citizen and woman. Cutting through society's clamorous demands to work longer and stay young, it delivers a clear-eyed account of midlife's challenges. Spurred by her own brutal propulsion into menopause, Marina Benjamin weighs the losses, joys and opportunities of our middle years, taking inspiration from literature and philosophical example. Marina Benjamin suggests there's comfort and guidance in memory, milestones and margins and offers an inspired and expanded vision of how to be middle-aged happily and harmoniously, without sentiment or delusion, making The Middlepause a companion and a friend.. A candid and beautifully written wrinkles-and-all meditation on the middle years, with all their dilemmas and challenges. She uncovers the secret misogynistic history of HRT and tells us why a dose of Jung is better than a trip to the gym. In a society

S. Lynn McAllister said Three Stars. Gave it as a gift.. Amazon Customer said Four Stars. honest description of women health a must read intelligent. P. Stern said A welcome reflection on menopause. When I came across this book I was thrilled to find a door opening into my wife's menopausal experience. For those of us outside this profound change, Benjamin's is likely to be the best description we have: she leaves us with insight, understanding, and empathy. Her account -- well crafted, solidly researched, and thoughtfully tied to broader reflections on middle age -- can be read with profit and appreciation by anyone, perhaps especially husbands. I'm very glad I read it and have shared parts of it with my wife.My

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