Carol Orsborn, Ph.D.
Embracing Aging as Culmination
Her trail-blazing body of work includes “The best book I have ever read on this most significant passage.”
Gail Sheehy, Passages
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Carol’s Body of Work
5 Decades of Beloved Books
Since her first book Enough is Enough paved the way for the life balance movement on Oprah and The Today Show, Carol’s work has been a harbinger of things to come.
Her books have won the praise of scholars, lifelong fans and younger readers grateful for her healing vision of aging as the fulfillment of life’s promise.
Bestseller
"Once again, Carol Orsborn stirs the reader to reflect upon aging as an opportunity for depth and expansion, and week by week to experience that which abides through life’s changes.”
James Hollis, Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life
Classic
“Carol Orsborn has written a remarkable classic. It is an unbelievable privilege to engage with what she’s given here to the world.”
H.R. Moody, The Five Stages of the Soul
Winner of Gold, Nautilus Book Awards
“The Spirituality of Age emphasizes that old age can be a time of growth and spiritual discovery, a time of fulfillment of life.”
Mary Catherine Bateson. Composing a Further Life
Debuted at #1
“Bursting with revelations, Carol’s amazing book is healing and full of the fierce grace of enlightened aging. Dive in and discover the sacred mystery of your own life..”
John C. Robinson, The Divine Human
Spiritual Memoir
“I’ve not read anything as honest and revealing as the tale of Carol Orsborn’s personal journey into becoming Fierce with Age.”
Connie Goldman, Who Am I…Now that I’m Not Who I Was
Random House Classic
“The Art of Resilience is a wonderful book about remembering the most important thing in life—love.”
Gerald G. Jampolsky, Love is Letting Go of Fear
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On Milestone Birthdays
Over the years, I’ve come to embrace aging as a gift and privilege: the growing freedom, the welcomed lessening of ego, the early signs of wisdom. Then turning 70 snuck
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“How you age is not a problem to be solved but a spiritual choice.” Spiritual Aging is situated at the intersection of spirituality, psychology and conscious aging, supported by my
