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Timeless Women Speak: Feeling Youthful at Any Age

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This engaging book contains the secrets to feeling happier, healthier and stronger with every passing year, based on years of research with 1,200 women from 20 to 90. Women want and deserve more--energy, joy, rewards, and fulfillment. Too often, though, women compare themselves to other women, or to images they see in the media, which leaves them feeling fearful, unhappy, invisible and dismissed. In a society that cherishes youth and beauty rather than maturity and wisdom, "Timeless Women Speak" helps women become fearless, while addressing their challenges and concerns. Women can see themselves in the stories on every page and learn to create lives in which they feel empowered, fearless and determined. The book offers suggestions for finding and becoming a mentor and for achieving vibrant good health, money to last a lifetime, loving supportive relationships, and robust self-esteem.

Each chapter features profiles of four women, two that are afraid of getting older and two that are not afraid. Their candid expressions reveal a wide range of experiences, from what they wish others understood about them, their solutions and challenges with the passage of years, keys for vibrant energy and healthy emotional balance, secrets for staying mentally sharp, to the difference between normal memory loss and worrisome symptoms. Other sections suggest ways to teach children about women's history, a checklist for evaluating satisfaction with life, and tips for getting over aging fears, improving relationships, and more.

One of the greatest sources of pain for women is the gap in understanding between generations. Readers say this book helps women bridge the gap between mothers and daughters. Women should first read the chapter on their own age group, then the age chapters for family and friends. Women of all ages express a powerful relief to see that others share their feelings, and that they can help each other in their search for positive ways to grow older in a youth-oriented society. The profiles in the eighties chapter are especially touching and inspiring.

Timeless Women Speak gives voice to hundreds of women of all ages, with diverse backgrounds, personalities, experiences and approaches to life. In their stories, I often recognized myself and other women I've known, and found inspiration in their resilience and generosity of spirit. This book is packed with information and advice for women at every life-stage. Do yourself a favor and read every chapter!

This book has given me an insight into where I have been and what I have learned. Reading the chapter on the sixties, I have a freedom to follow my bliss with no guilt. After reading the thirties chapter, I have a greater understanding of my daughter and daughter-in-law and what their needs are today.

I don't think it works the other way, so I have no expectations that they will understand me, but it gives me a better understanding of myself.
Thank you girls who write.

This is an excellent book for women of all ages. It not only prepares you for a new decade you may be about to enter, but it helps you understand where you're presently at and have come from. I am sharing the book with my friends, sisters and two twentysomething nieces.

Though one of the authors is a Ph.D., the book is an easy read and not burdened with psychology-speak. The composite profiles ring true and are the result of input from hundreds of women.

A must read for all women!

I just turned 60 and this book gave me a real perspective of where I've been and where I'm headed. I first used it as a reference looking for specific concepts then read it for the ideas that came from others. There are lots of to-dos and work-throughs that made me feel much more in control of anxieties I have.

My daughter is turning 40 and I got her a book too. I can tell her how young she is from my perspective, but hearing it from others has more impact. It even got us talking about some taboo areas.

Positive aging...it sounds impossible in our youthful perfectionistic culture! This book is a guide into the territory that is ahead for all of us. It provides the reader with mentors and role models to lead the way into this strange land of successful aging. It's enlightening to hear the words of other women who have traveled the path, from their 20's through their 80's, to find that there are ways to savor life and be a strong wise woman! Through each decade, the authors provide the reader with tips and helpful stories from women who share their journey. It's honest, straight forward, and hopeful writing!