Life Gets Better

Life Gets Better
Author :
Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 202
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781101547670
ISBN-13 : 1101547677
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Life Gets Better by : Wendy Lustbader

Download or read book Life Gets Better written by Wendy Lustbader and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author of What's Worth Knowing reveals the truth about aging: Old age often offers a richer, better, and more self-assured life than youth. From our earliest lives, we are told that our youth will be the best time of our lives-that the energy and vitality of youth are the most important qualities a person can possess, and that everything that comes after will be a sad decline. But in reality, says Wendy Lustbader, youth is not the golden era it is often made out to be. For many, it is a time riddled with anxiety, angst, confusion, and the torture of uncertainty. Conversely, the media often feeds us a vision of growing older as a journey of defeat and diminishment. They are dead wrong. As Lustbader counters, "Life gets better as we get older, on all levels except the physical." Life Gets Better is not a precious or whimsical tome on the quirky wisdom of the elderly. Lustbader-who has worked for several decades as a social worker specializing in aging issues-conducted firsthand research with aging and elderly people in all walks of life, and she found that they overwhelmingly spoke of the mental and emotional richness they have drawn from aging. Lustbader discovered that rather than experiencing a decline from youth, aging people were happier, more courageous, and more interested in being true to their inner selves than were young people. Life Gets Better examines through first-person stories, as well as Lustbader's own observations, how a lifetime of lessons learned can yield one of the most personally and emotionally fruitful periods of anyone's life. As an eighty-six-year-old who contributed her story to the book noted, "For me, being old is the reward for outlasting all the big and little problems that happen to all of us along life's pathway." The collected stories in Life Gets Better provide a hopeful corrective to the fear of aging aggressively instilled in us by the media. Don't dread the future: The best years of our lives just may be ahead.


Life Gets Better Related Books

Life Gets Better
Language: en
Pages: 202
Authors: Wendy Lustbader
Categories: Self-Help
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-08-18 - Publisher: Penguin

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The acclaimed author of What's Worth Knowing reveals the truth about aging: Old age often offers a richer, better, and more self-assured life than youth. From o
Getting Real about Getting Older
Language: en
Pages: 258
Authors: Linda Stroh
Categories: Self-Help
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-11-06 - Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The first book to open up a real conversation about aging. What has the experience of getting older felt like for you? It seems that life's milestones pass by i
Getting Good at Getting Older
Language: en
Pages: 304
Authors: Richard Siegel
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019 - Publisher: Behrman House Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"A tour for all of us "of a certain age" through the resources and skills to navigate the years between maturity and old age, told with warmth, humor, and more
Stupid Things I Won't Do When I Get Old
Language: en
Pages: 274
Authors: Steven Petrow
Categories: Self-Help
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-06-29 - Publisher: Citadel

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

For fans of David Sedaris and Nora Ephron, a humorous, irreverent, and poignant look at the gifts, stereotypes, and inevitable challenges of aging, based on awa
The Power of Positive Aging
Language: en
Pages: 170
Authors: David Lereah
Categories: Self-Help
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-06-02 - Publisher: Quill Driver Books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Americans are unprepared for aging. The Power of Positive Aging is a training course to help you survive and thrive through the greatest challenge of your life-