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Carol Orsborn, Ph.D.
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I am many things today that I wasn’t even a couple of months let alone years ago. I am wiser, more self-nurturing. I understand more about what it means to love and be loved, and how to tender compassion without strings attached. And yet, on any given day, I may also be devastated at some […]
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As we become older, wiser and fiercer, we learn to accept that even in our awakened state, we are still not calling the shots. This turns out to be a good thing. Only by admitting to the crumbling of the illusion of our mastery and taking into account what we now know to be the […]
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For nearly the entire decade of midlife, we are unsure how much time and energy to invest in keeping our looks youthful, our bodies supple, our world expanding. And when it is early enough to believe we still have even the slightest chance of succeeding at it, we try, then over time, try harder yet […]
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How sobering, that moment when we come to realize that we are capable of a peculiar greatness. As we grow over time into our unique, authentic self, what others think of us becomes less and less of a concern. We lose our filters and find words issuing forth that may not be judicious, but are […]
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One of the greatest gifts of growing older is that we can grow to become not nearly as fascinated with our original wounds as we used to be. It’s not that we don’t sometimes feel we weren’t loved the way we deserved. But by now, we’ve run this story line so many times, it’s become […]
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Who amongst us does not know more now than we did ten, thirty or fifty years ago…not just about what is right and what is wrong, but who we are and the nature of the choices that are ours to make? We have been informed by dreams and nightmares as well as by unearned grace. […]
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The recognition that I prefer to live in my small self came late in life and I would not now trade it for anything. Growing old helps slow me down, limits options, provides cover for the tenderest parts of myself. Small is where I am grounded, nourished, whole. Digging deep into these new-found sensitivities, I […]
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What does one make of hope when we see how many attempts we’ve made to improve ourselves, only to remain essentially the same? The same tendencies, traits and habits we’d thought we’d beaten into submission re-emerge again, sometimes subtler, but essentially unchanged. It is not that our lives don’t improve. Eventually, one learns not to […]
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Our two oldest dogs, little Sammy and Lucky, can—on a good day—pick their way up the doggie steps to the sofa. Reaching their favorite spots, they curl up exhausted after prevailing upon their hind legs to finally obey and the whole dog gratefully makes it over the edge onto the cushion. When they get there […]
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Another of the great gifts of age is that perceptions—even cherished ones– can seemingly change in a flash. All the life experience, all the trial and error, all the observation and contemplation finally amounts to something. It is as if each of us has a spiritual Rosetta Stone: a touch-point that unlocks the key to […]
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“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
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Brent Green
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“The Spirituality of Age is beautifully written…the best book I have ever read on this most significant passage.”
Gail Sheehy
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