Books
Recommended reads for women navigating midlife and beyond.
Educated
Tara Westover’s extraordinary memoir about growing up in a survivalist family with no formal schooling and her self-directed journey to Cambridge and Harvard. A story of intellectual self-invention and the cost of claiming your own mind.
The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for People Who Have Alzheimer Disease
The definitive guide for families caring for a loved one with Alzheimer’s or other dementias. Practical, compassionate, and comprehensive — a must-have for the millions of women who are dementia caregivers, usually for a parent or spouse.
It Didn’t Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are
Therapist Mark Wolynn presents compelling evidence for transgenerational trauma — patterns of fear, illness, and behavior that pass from parents to children and grandchildren. Midlife often brings these inherited patterns to the surface for the first time.