Wise Aging: Living with Joy, Resilience, & Spirit

By Linda Thal and Rachel Cowan

Book Overview

National Jewish Book Award FinalistHow can we make aging a good and powerful experience?

Aging can feel like an inevitable drift. But each year new doors open with opportunities, while others close with loss. We have the power to prepare--to build our resilience and navigate the challenges. Will we turn towards the opportunities, and continue to find joy and meaning in our lives? Strengthen relationships with our adult children? Have the courage to find new ways of living? How can we make the most of the aging process, and develop into deeper, wiser people?

In Wise Aging, Rabbi Rachel Cowan and Dr. Linda Thal give us the tools we need to find our own answers to these questions. With the same warmth, humor, and wisdom that draws thousands to their innovative workshops on aging, they deliver practical, real world suggestions: journaling exercises, meditations, and activities that dig deep and lead us to a better understanding of how to age well.

Wise Aging provides the roadmap for the journey we are all on: achieving a fulfilling older age. No subject is off limits; Rabbi Cohen and Dr. Thal explore a wide range of issues, including:

Relationships with adult children and spousesBody imageRomance and sexualityLiving with lossCultivating well-being

They tackle these issues head on, and with uncanny sensitivity deliver sage advice that inspires, informs, and will help us grow into wisdom with resilience and joy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874419212
• ISBN13: 9780874419214
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: Behrman House Publishing
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Full of depth and thought

I found the topics in this book absolutely spot on in terms of issues we need to face as we age, especially forgiveness, spirituality, the role of meditation, and blessings. The book is written with a Jewish audience in mind, but it aimed at anyone who feels a deep spirituality and is asking the hard questions of why are we alive and what is our legacy. The exercises at the end of each chapter provide guidance in addressing the tough issues as we age and face our eventual death.

Want a Textbook?

This book was not inviting to read. Very impersonal and more like a college textbook. Too Academic and definitely not something I will work through! A Much Better Book is THE GIFT OF YEARS Growing Older Gracefully by Joan Chittister.