Changing Course: Women's Inspiring Stories of Menopause, Midlife, and Moving Forward

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Summary: Creating a Room
Review: "Changing Course" is a literary gift to every woman in mid-life. For years, women have been expected to be silent on this journey, this momentous passage from youth and fertility to another place, where mind and body change, expand, contract in so many surprising ways. How welcome it is to have Yitta Halberstam break this silence. How wonderful to listen to eloquent women discussing vital transformations, which, like so many other human experiences from childhood to old age, we (both men and women) are encouraged not to talk about. Momentous passages, like the first day of school, traveling alone to an unknown place, starting a new job, are usually greeted with: "that's part of life;" don't make a big deal about it;" "everyone gets through it, you will too." Ms. Halberstam has created a room where women can share their experiences from youth through middle-age; where they can describe how they are re-learning and re-conceiving bodies and minds they have inhabited for forty and fifty years. The essays in "Changing Course" (including some beautiful ones written by Ms. Halberstam herself) have been edited with discretion and insight. A few of the essays might, possibly, ring truer if they left off that final sentence declaring, in summation, that the experience of aging is valuable, instructional, uplifting. Perhaps they "protest too much." But these are minor criticisms. "Changing Course" is pure, authentic and respectful; a collection of voices into which my own can merge with joy.




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Summary: Another winner from a celebrated author
Review: Changing course is another feel good production from Y.H. where she again brings warmth and joy to our lives

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Summary: Excellent essays!
Review: This book is superb. Imagine women sharing their experience, strength and hope around such an intimate subject matter. Each essay is so very personal yet I identified with something in each one. Thank you to each of you who contributed.

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Summary: Fabulous book
Review: This is a fabulous book for women and the men who love them. Read about the changes women face in midlife not from a medical perspective but from an intimate personal journey of numerous women who share their often humorous experiences. You will! catch yourself laughing aloud, nodding your head. A must read!

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Summary: A Book For Every Baby Boomer Woman To Read!
Review: This is a serious, insightful, and intelligent book with which you'll identify. You will feel less alone in your own personal struggles and challenges as you read the honest and poignant stories and essays in this book. You'll also get great advice and concrete suggestions on how to navigate this stage in your life. But this is not a traditional self-help book. It is a collection of different women's voices portraying with great honesty and sensitivity the various ways they made midlife the CENTER of life, and not the end of it. The risks, adventures, major changes and new directions these women take are amazing! The book is heartening, inspiring and a great read, too.