Speaking of Joan Borsyenko I was happy to discover her recent work, The Soul’s Compass, What is Spiritual Guidance? published by The Claritas Institute for Interspiritual Inquiry, which she founded jointly with her husband. Particularly germane in midlife as issues of authenticity and deeper purpose rise to the fore, she addresses the meaning and practice [...]

If you can at all manage it, don’t miss this free series with Joan Borsyenko, Ph.D., drawn from her new work, It’s Not the End of the World: Developing Resilience in Times of Change. A cell biologist, clinical psychologist, early pioneer of psychoneuroimmunology (study of the mind body connection), former director [...]

It’s hard to believe that Christiane’s Northrup’s whole woman approach on how to have a positive and healthy menopause in The Wisdom of Menopause: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing During the Change, is already a classic five years after it was published. If you followed the hormonal and neurological studies linking women’s [...]

Until recently, the conventional wisdom on preventing bone fractures focused on calcium – from supplements or dairy products – then exercise, hormone replacement, and if all else fails Fosomax or related drugs. That thinking advanced with the publication of Preventing and Reversing Osteoporosis : What You Can Do About Bone Loss by Alan Gaby, M.D. [...]

This is quite a remarkable personal story, very well worth reading. For me, it’s a model, not only for what to do when your partner is undergoing a midlife crisis that threatens your marriage, but for insight into the internal work it takes to reach and maintain such internal certainty, equanimity and resolve when it [...]