Linda N. Edelstein, Ph.D.
Midlife And The Road Not Taken

Midlife And The Road Not Taken

Many people have written about midlife, me included. One of the most fascinating concepts came from psychologist Carl Jung. Jung talked about the arc of life from birth to death (sun rise to sunset) with midlife obviously falling around the after noon. He posited...
Author Your Own Midlife

Author Your Own Midlife

Not everyone wants to write a book, but most of us want to write many of the chapters in our own lives. For too many people, this motivation stops at midlife; they concentrate on the aging, the losses, and the aches and forget about the future that still exists....
Central Midlife Question

Central Midlife Question

Most people have a picture of the kind of life they want to know before they die. How close we come to that that picture becomes the measure of the quality of our lives. Of course, we cannot change the way that the universe runs; it remains indiffere nt to my desires...