Posted on January 26th, 2010 by Colin
Whenever I talk about midlife, the word ‘crisis’ is inexplicitly linked, so I’d like to share with you some thinking about the five ‘crisis’ of middle age and how each crisis can provide you with a wonderful opportunity for personal transformation into greater wisdom and wholeness.
Posted on November 5th, 2009 by Colin
Welcome to my new blog Midlife Maverick. Today is the day it’s officially launched but bear with me as I’m still transferring everything across from my old blog and it’s proving more time consuming than expected! My old blog is not sophisticated enough to handle everything I want to do so I’ve decide to go [...]
Posted on October 27th, 2009 by Colin
“Perhaps middle age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells—the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions and the shell of the ego.”
This is the analogy Anne Morrow Lindbergh uses in her beautiful book of meditations – Gift from the Sea
Adult life has been described as a series of cycles. [...]
Posted on October 27th, 2009 by Colin
In the first half of life our society quite clearly lays out the path we are supposed to follow. To not follow is to be classed a misfit. So, in the first half of life we play the game of ‘social expectation’.
You know how it’s supposed to go …
Posted on October 27th, 2009 by Colin
Dissatisfaction seems to be swallowing midlifers whole. Most of the conversations I have with midlifers are filled everything that’s missing, They are either not satisfied with their work, their bodies, their love life, their options, the quality of their lives or, in some cases, all of it! The more they seek satisfaction the more elusive [...]
Posted on October 27th, 2009 by Colin
The drive in midlife is for wholeness. It’s what we yearn for. By wholeness I mean reclaiming our unlived lives, remembering our forgotten dreams, attend to our neglected qualities and finding our lost talents. We yearn to live our unlived lives and find our deeper selves, we do not know. We want to break free [...]
