Love Your Age: The Small-Step Solution to a Better, Longer, Happier Life

by Barbara Hannah Grufferman

Filled with healthy habits to help you take charge of your life with wit, energy, and confidence, this inspiring guide will show you how to look, feel, and be your best in a busy, fast-paced world .

Warm, engaging, and user-friendly, this powerful, practical guide to aging gracefully will be an indispensable resource for anyone looking to live their best life. Featuring more than a hundred easy-to-adopt "small steps" -- the foundation for ingrained habits that will yield longer, happier, and healthier years - this book will help enrich your life, from health and fitness to style, work and relationships. From checking in with your doctors to changing your fitness routine, cooling hot flashes, tackling social media and updating your wardrobe, transformation really does begin with one step - and Grufferman provides an easy formula for making and breaking the right habits. Packed with expert tips, myth busters, checklists, real-life anecdotes, and sage wisdom, this book offers a new approach to life after 40 that will inspire, rejuvenate, and energize.

Winner of the Excel Book Award for General Excellence by the Association of Media & Publishing

Genres: Nonfiction, Self Help, Aging

288 pages, Paperback

Published February 6, 2018

Reviews

[Susan Reyna · Rating 5 out of 5]

Clear, step-by-step, helpful, beautifully illustrated solutions for just about every possible question or issue an aging (40 plus) person could face. Like a book full of all of the helpful magazine articles you have ever encountered, but all in one place.

[Victoria · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm rating between 3 or 4 stars. This has a friendly tone, helpful tips, nicely organized. Nothing new or profound, but it solidifies advice I've read elsewhere. I like it when health books agree. The ones that offer vastly different "scientific proof" concern and frustrate me.

Note to publishers/printers - please don't use green pages with black text. Especially for a health book aimed at "older" readers. It is hard on the eyes. Thankfully the majority of the book has the normal white background and black text, but each chapter ended with tips entitled "Small Steps" that I skipped because of the green/black eyestrain.

[Katy Koivastik · Rating 5 out of 5]

I cannot say enough good things about this wonderful book. It is well written, well organized, and contains clever strategies for we ladies “of a certain age”. The last chapter is essentially a handy check list of things we should be doing and in what time frame. And lastly, Barbara Hannah Grufferman gives us permission to make the relationship we have with ourselves our most important relationship. Well done!

[Jane · Rating 5 out of 5]

About half of this book applied to my age group and to me, personally. It was very informative and I definitely recommend it.

[J. · Rating 2 out of 5]

The author gathered quotes, tidbits, suggestions, lists, and random facts together to help reader develop healthy habits. Grufferman focuses many on common sense ideas and highlights material through sidebars, changes in fonts, pictures, and other formatting tools. The author did not provide references or support for recommend physical, medical, and psychological activities. Two other issues are font size and lack of an index. This limits accessibility for a portion of the target audience.

[Alisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great book for those wanting to make the most of their post-retirement lives. It is a book for on-going use, not a one-and-done read, because it addresses a range of experiences and situations. None of those are applicable to everyone, and those that are, don't arise all at once. But if achieving (or maintaining) health, wisdom and wealth - this is a very useful starting place.

[Daphne · Rating 3 out of 5]

Always put yourself first! Self-love is the golden ticket to a happy, healthy life. Sounds selfish? No. It's smart!
During the reading, I began to develop some new habits, like doing more physical exercise per day, doing few minutes meditation, lowering expectation for others, etc. Thanks to this book, I started to put myself no.1 priority.

[Judy Font · Rating 4 out of 5]

Learned some valuable things to work on in this book. There is a lot of useful information to help me, now that I have reached 50. I will incorporate things one at a time, and build better healthier habits.

[Walter T. Mara · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book

My measure of how much I get out of a book is how many notes I take. I took lots.

[Drew · Rating 2 out of 5]

No new information, but nicely presented.

[Staci · Rating 5 out of 5]

I didn’t expect to like this as much as I did! Comprehensive common sense.

[❄️✨ Kat ✨❄️ · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5

[Molly Brown · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very practical sound advice in small bites and also applicable to my current age. Making good habits and breaking bad ones a little at a time seems reasonable not overwhelming.

[Sylvia Light · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well written. Thorough. Informative.