Your One Wild and Precious Life: An Inspiring Guide to Becoming Your Best Self At Any Age
By (Author) Maureen Gaffney
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Books Ltd
9th July 2024
4th April 2024
United Kingdom
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Advice on careers and achieving success
Coping with / advice about ageing
Popular medicine and health
Psychology of ageing
Family psychology
Coping with / advice about stress
Coping with / advice about death and bereavement
Separation and divorce: advice and issues
Intergenerational relationships: advice and issues
158.1
Paperback
416
Width 128mm, Height 198mm, Spine 25mm
293g
A ground-breaking new framework for embracing middle age and beyond Middle-age is cross-roadsy - having arrived, you're looking back in wonder about how you got here, and also looking ahead, thinking- where to next The realisation that neither time nor choices are limitless is both daunting and exciting - this is the moment to take stock and figure out how to make the best of every precious moment of your second act. Your One Wild and Precious Life is an eye-opening account of this vital and surprisingly liberating life-stage. Crucially, it sets out how you can transform your thinking to reclaim control over your life, connect with who you truly are and face the future with joy and a sense of purpose. This is both radical and reassuring - a book to fundamentally alter your relationship with time and to help you to understand that every age can be your best age.
A profound, important work; simultaneously wise, instructive and a love letter to humanity . . . I recognised entire sections that seemed to have been written just for me . . . I don't think I've ever taken so many notes * Irish Times *
A must-read * Irish Daily Mail *
Fascinating and engaging * Sunday Times *
Your One Wild and Precious Life . . . will transform your thinking * Irish Farmers Journal *
It reframed so much for me -- Aoibhn Garrihy
Dr Maureen Gaffney is a leading clinical psychologist, writer and broadcaster. She has had a distinguished academic career and continues to work as a consultant, specializing in leadership and organizational change, working with companies around the world to build strong, emotionally intelligent leadership and innovative and resilient work cultures. She has served on numerous state and other boards and is a member of the Women's Leadership Board of Harvard University's Kennedy School. Maureen is a popular columnist and broadcaster, and an inspirational and authoritative speaker. Her number 1 bestselling book Flourishing, about how to achieve a deeper sense of well-being, meaning and purpose, was the basis of a major two-part RT TV documentary. She lives in Dublin with her husband, John. They have two grown-up children and four grandchildren.