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About Midlife
Journeys
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For many people, midlife is a time of
transformation, a time of seeking greater purpose, joy and meaning in the
second half of life. Midlife Journeys is a monthly newsletter
designed to support you in reconnecting with your authentic self and
energizing your life through deep self-nurturing, creative expression and
heart-centered living. Each issue contains inspiration and resources to
help guide you on your journey to greater aliveness, joy and fulfillment.
Upcoming Community Events:
Midlife Awakening with Marianne Willliamson.
Marianne Williamson, a renowned spiritual teacher and best-selling
author, is offering a 9 hour workshop entitled "Midlife Awakening", November 3-4, 2006 in Torrance, CA. For more
information: www.ConferenceWorks.com or 866-547-3309.
Spiritual Values and Practice for the Second Half of Life:
Perspectives on Making the Later Years Worthwhile--A Day with Huston
Smith and Phil Cousineau. UCLA Extension, Saturday,
November 18, 10am - 4pm. For more information: www.uclaextension.edu.
To ensure that you receive your editions of Midlife Journeys newsletter,
please put the following email address in your email address book: newsletter@midlifejourneys.com.
Ple ase feel free to forward this newsletter to anyone who would enjoy
receiving it!
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Unmasking Our
True Selves in Midlife
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"This is what I ache for: intimacy with myself, with others, with the world, intimacy
that touches the sacred in all that is life." --Oriah
Mountain Dreamer
October is the month we celebrate Halloween. As children, and sometimes
even as adults, we don costumes and masks to become, for a night, something
other than who we usually are: a monster, a witch, a French maid or a
superhero!
As we journey through midlife, we may feel stuck playing roles that no
longer feel true to who we now yearn to be. We may feel as if we're in costume with our social masks carefully in place, but a sense of
emptiness pervades our activities.
We may feel restless, bored or lost. We're seeking something
different, but we're not sure
what it is.
In becoming identified with our roles as professionals, parents, sons or
daughters, spouses/partners or community leaders, we may have lost sight
of who we truly are. In taking on the roles desired by our families and
culture, we may have left behind precious dreams for our lives.
Midlife affords us the perspective, wisdom and courage to begin to unmask
our true self. The urgency we feel as we begin to face our mortality can
be a wonderful catalyst for seeking new meaning and purpose in our lives.
Rather than looking for answers outside ourselves, we begin to find
treasures and our own truth within. In the words of Thomas Browne, "Unmasked, all the
wonders you seek are within you."
This is an opportunity to move from our culturally- defined "midlife crisis" to
what Marianne Williamson has termed "midlife
awakening". A time to give
yourself emotional permission to feel fundamental changes in who you are
and where you're going. A time to create a life of your own design and find your true passion and purpose.
"It takes courage to grow
up and turn out to be who we really are." --e.e. cummings
It's never too late to
begin.
This month, I invite you to consider: Who do you truly yearn to be? What
roles, masks or identities would you like to release? What holds you back
from discovering and trusting your true self: the need for other's acceptance and approval; your need to be seen by
others in a desired way?
"By God, when you see your beauty, you'll be the idol of yourself." --Rumi
Many blessings and Happy Halloween!
Carol
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Upcoming
Events
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Womens Sacred Journeys
Winter Workshop, coming in January 2007
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Group Coaching
Bittersweet New Beginnings: When Your Child Leaves Home Wednesdays, Sept.
27 - Dec. 6, 2006, 7:00-9:00pm
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