The Next Fifty Years: A Guide for Women at Midlife and Beyond

by Pamela D. Blair

New edition being published in April 2014 as Getting Older Better IS THERE LIFE AFTER HOT FLASHES? Yes! According to Pamela Blair, psychotherapist and author of The Next Fifty Years ! That person in the mirror is you and now is the time to understand and accept the external changes while making some internal changes. Make peace with yourself, embrace aspects of yourself that have been unexplored, and dive passionately into what you love! There has never been a better time to be a woman over fifty. Embracing the celebratory essence of The Red Hat Society and Red Hot Mamas --while at the same time moving beyond them-- The Next Fifty Years offers solutions and support. Included is a group study guide with outlines for creating a meaningful forum for thoughts, concerns, joys, frustrations, and--fun with your friends and peers. Today's woman is recognized as being far more complex and multidimensional than previous generations, fulfilling many roles in today's society. More than 150 short essays cover topics specific to women and aging, Also included is journaling space for you to write your own thoughts and feelings. Intended both as a personal journal and guide to the best years of your life, The Next Fifty Years can become a written legacy between generations of women--past, present, and to come.

333 pages, Paperback

First published August 30, 2005

Reviews

[Tami · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Next Fifty Years: A Guide for Women at Midlife and Beyond is a must have reference and guide for women over fifty years old. This book contains articles, reference material, and practical exercise on every imaginable subject from the self image and emotions through the spiritual and the creative self to dealing with family and personal finances. Each of these sections comes complete with meaningful quotes, first hand accounts from other fifty plus women, and a series of questions that the reader can ask herself relating to these important subjects. This book also comes with a study guide.

The Next Fifty Years: A Guide for Women at Midlife and Beyond is extremely complete. This book covers every possible topic that the reader could ever have imagined and a few they probably never knew existed. More importantly though, this book also details a lot of those questions we'd all like to ask or those feelings that we could never feel comfortable enough to share with friends or family. Complete empowerment for women.

[Nancy · Rating 2 out of 5]

It's fairly comprehensive but it's too New-Agey for me. It wasn't very useful to me--I already do many of the things suggested or have sorted out some of the questions addressed. Nice to see that I'm doing better than I thought but I would like to read something with more concrete advice. As an example of what I mean, the discussion on women becoming invisible seems to conclude that it is our own choice to be visible or to fade into the background but when I have experienced servers or clerks ignoring me (and speaking to my daughter, instead) , it's hard to imagine that it is my own choice.