Flourishing Later in Life With Mary Pipher

Live Happy Now

Live Happy LLC

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Health & Fitness:mental Health

4.7 • 522 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2019

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Her groundbreaking book, Reviving Ophelia, psychologist Mary Pipher changed the way we looked at girls and adolescence. Now, with her 10th book, she is doing for aging what she did for adolescence, providing a wise and heartfelt guide to happiness in later life. Women Rowing North: Navigating Life’s Currents and Flourishing As We Age provides an engaging and uplifting examination of how to thrive in life’s later stages and how the struggles we face can help us become the people we’ve always wanted to be. In this episode you’ll learn: How the end years of life can be the happiest time The role of humor and gratitude in later life Why mercy is a valuable quality to develop

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 196 of Live Happy Now. This is your host, Paula Phelps, thanking you for joining us
0:09.3	and letting you know, I think you're going to like what we have in store for you this week.
0:13.1	We have an incredible guest named Mary Pfeiffer, and you probably know that name because she
0:17.6	broke ground 25 years ago with her book, Reviving Ophelia.
0:22.1	Now with her 10th book, she's reframing the way that we look at aging and what this journey
0:26.9	means as we get older. Her latest book, Women Rowing North, Navigating Life's Currents and
0:33.0	flourishing as we age, provides a fresh roadmap for aging, and as you're about to hear, it's even going to
0:39.1	make you look forward to the journey.
0:41.1	Mary, welcome to the show.
0:42.6	It is truly an honor to have you talking to us on Live Happy Now.
0:46.7	Thank you so much.
0:47.6	I'm happy to be here.
0:49.2	You know, you've done some incredible work through your time as an author and as a therapist,
0:53.8	but Women Rowing North is just such a wise and important book. some incredible work through your time as an author and as a therapist.
1:00.3	But Women Rowing North is just such a wise and important book for women who are moving into that later stage of life.
1:01.5	And I wondered what prompted you to write this and why you wrote it now.
1:06.8	Well, it's my 10th book.
1:08.4	And every book I've written, Paula, I've written because I had a really
1:13.4	deep felt need to understand something and a curiosity about it. Now, I don't mean a curiosity
1:22.3	like, well, why isn't Pluto a planet? I mean a need emotionally to understand an issue that was important to me.
1:30.7	So that's why I've written all my books.
1:33.2	This particular book is a lot like Revived Ophelia of my first book in that what first
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