‘Midlife Matters’ Articles

You may find managing important duties and issues a real ego-boost, but by staying focused on the big deals and neglecting the little facets of your life — in your career, your relationships and your own personal health and well-being — you risk descending into crisis and losing it all. Success in life and love depends entirely on how well you [Continue]

There are many ways to deal with the onset of emotional pain. Some approaches are more effective than others. There's one approach that has all the advantages and few of the drawbacks: write it out. [Continue]

I have come to believe that there are actually two types of fear. The one – healthy caution – provides us with the protection that we need against rash decision-making. There is another type of fear, however, that arises from insecurity and self-doubt. [Continue]

Apart from outright physical and emotional abuse, I believe that many (if not all) relationships "on the rocks" could be healed under the right circumstances. From my perspective, the fact that this healing so often fails to take place could be an indication that one or both of the partners have stopped listening. Additionally, ceasing to listen [Continue]

It seems — to the best of my ability to understand the answer — that the universe and all it contains is nothing but a mega-University that's only function is to educate Consciousness (in all its known and unknown iterations) in just two interrelated subjects: what I'm calling the Two Great Lessons of Life. I won't keep you hanging there in [Continue]

Rather than focus on our ultimate destiny, leaving this world behind, our culture has chosen to replace a morbid fascination with death with a morbid fascination with rigidity and changelessness. Our obsession with youth and nostalgia for an imagined halcyon age in times gone by permeates not only our decision-making processes, but also the [Continue]