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Myra Wexler Darwish
Category:
Memoir
Publisher: Booklocker.com
ISBN-10: 1959620835
Type: Non-Fiction
Pages: 206
Copyright: September 25, 2024
ISBN-13: 9781959620839
Price: $5.99 (eBook)
Join me as we travel together on the road called "Aging." I will be sharing my personal experiences with you and offer ideas on how we can better navigate the complex byways of our older years. Grief, healing, generations, ancestors, and more.
Until It’s Time blends memoir with an honest and open discussion of aging that embraces elderhood in a realistic and supportive way. The author’s life and work experiences in the field of caring for the elderly as an associate professor, a clinical specialist in gerontology, and a holistic nurse ground her experience.
The book broadens its discussion by tackling some of the issues that currently prevail in our society. Addressing topics of interest for those of us who want to live our best well-informed lives. There are suggestions on how to care for oneself in body, mind, and spirit, how to understand the generations, and the shifts that have occurred and our place in them, other options for dealing with a healthcare challenge, technology’s effect on our modern lives, and how to find support in our ancestral roots.
The author’s own relationship with her husband of sixty-plus years guides the book’s premise of how to be together and remain friends and wise supporters of each other.
Myra uses the Moon and its phases as an anchor for her story. The phases of planting seeds, peak energy, release, fresh energy, momentum, patience, readjustment, and surrender become the grounding of each chapter’s focus adding another dimension to the book’s story.
The book also shares the author’s study of Astrology and its practice that includes perspectives at the end of every chapter, which can help in understanding human relationships.
Ultimately, this is a book about living a fuller and more loving life in our later years.
What Beta Readers Have Said
“A beautiful book, has heart, soul, and depth,” “I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to understand more about aging, relationships, and living a meaningful life,”
D.H.B.
“Insights are not just for older people, they’re for everyone.” M.D.
“Intense, I was being taught,” “A discussion on life," J.M.
Excerpt
From Chapter I
ANOTHER SEASON
(Experiences with Aging)
The older adult is after all not a one-dimensional human being; we're complex! We come from unique families, places, socio-economic backgrounds, and cultures. We have native talents, different physical capacities, and varying cognitive abilities. We have diverse hopes, dreams, and life experiences. Many of us are builders, creators, and thrivers, and some of us have greater needs to be taken care of; we are as diverse as when we were younger.
We bring to the world many gifts, and our diversity carries within us many stories and life experiences that can be helpful to mankind. The physical, emotional, environmental, geopolitical, health, and mental stress of life, day-in and day-out, can take their toll. The world is gathering a huge amount of experience in its collective, making this a profound time to learn and to share.
Very few of us wouldn't agree with the following statement: We are going through an intense time of change on the planet! I believe that elders who choose to do so, and those who are capable, can make a great contribution to their families and society at this critical time of change. Looking to those among us who have weathered the storms in their lives can be models of coping and endurance and bring hope to many.
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