WOW: Women's Older Wisdom

We’ve Earned A Good Read

After months of being preoccupied with the midterms, it’s time to revisit simple pleasures, like keeping company with a good book. To assist you, I’m sharing books that have transported me, made me laugh, and enlarged my [...]

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The Gift of Grief

GUEST POST by JACOB WATSON At first and for many months after my wife died, I felt brutalized. Grief is brutal, a word I used often when my grief was fresh. Then slowly, way too slowly for inpatient me, a transformation began to happen. I remembered a class I took in my doctoral program taught by Clarissa Pinkola Estés, the feminist author [...]

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Spiritual Companionship

GUEST POST by JACOB WATSON At 80, I’ve come to appreciate that the most important component of life is the spiritual realm. I was awakened to this realization through my work with the late Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. She taught us that the spiritual quadrant is an equal part of  the four quadrants (intellectual, emotional, physical and spiritual) [...]

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