Aging Joy

💥The Joy of Aging: Finding Happiness in Every Decade💥 by Ken Pealock Aging is often portrayed as something to fear or resist, but what if it could be the most joyful and enriching phase of life? In The Joy of Aging, author Ken Pealock offers a refreshing and transformative perspective on the aging process, encouraging readers to embrace each decade with gratitude, grace, and purpose. This insightful guide illuminates how aging is not just a physical decline, but an opportunity to grow, learn, and experience life in new and meaningful ways. Pealock delves into the science of aging, ...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! ***AUDIOBOOK READ BY JENNIE GARTH*** Beloved actress, designer, and entrepreneur Jennie Garth opens up in this fiercely honest book about pursuing happiness, aging with confidence, and learning to love and prioritize yourself. Jennie Garth is best known for...

In Wise Aging: Living with Joy, Resilience, & Spirit, Rabbi Rachel Cowan and Dr. Linda Thal give us the tools we need to navigate the challenges of aging as we find joy and meaning in our lives. With the same warmth, humor, and wisdom that draws thousands to their innovative workshops on aging, they deliver practical, real world suggestions: journaling exercises, meditations, and activities that dig deep and lead us to a better understanding of how to age well. 

The new edition of Creating Moments of Joy is filled with more practical advice sprinkled with hope, encouragement, new stories, and generous helpings of humor. In this volume, Brackey reveals that our greatest teacher is having cared for and loved someone with Alzheimer's and that often what we have most to learn about is ourselves.

Read by the author. Includes an exclusive Q&A with Levi Lusko! Get behind-the-scenes insights into his writing process, personal experiences, and the powerful lessons that shaped this book. ARE YOU GOING TO COPE, QUIT, OR COME ALIVE IN A BRAND-NEW WAY? The whirlwind of chaos and confusion...

Fine Over Fifty is a heartfelt companion for anyone on the path of becoming-whether you're over fifty, under thirty, or somewhere in between. This book isn't just about aging gracefully; it's about growing intentionally. With warmth, humor, and spiritual insight, Von Decarlo shares reflections, affirmations, prayers, and lessons from a life of inner growth. She explores what it means to truly listen to yourself, honor your soul, and trust your journey. Reframing aging as a powerful gift, she challenges the belief that age diminishes value.

Discover the morning routine that has transformed millions of lives—now customized for those over 50. For more than a decade, Hal Elrod’s groundbreaking book The Miracle Morning has helped people around the world live happier, healthier, more fulfilling lives through a simple morning routine...

Find joy and fulfillment in retirement, even if you’re unsure where to begin! Are you wondering how to make the most of your newfound freedom? Whether you’re looking for purpose, adventure, or ways to stay active, this guide offers endless ideas for crafting a life filled with excitement, engagement, and connection.

In this riveting psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of All the Wrong Places, a dementia patient reveals a deadly secret—and one woman must decide whether to believe her. “An epic murder mystery . . . This novel is a delight, tugging at your heartstrings as it...

On the eve of his 100th birthday, national treasure Dick Van Dyke brings us this autobiographical collection of stories, reflections, and life advice on how he’s maintained a zest for life. Dick Van Dyke danced his way into our hearts with iconic roles in Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang...

The Wonder and Happiness of Being Old is a timeless introspection on age, love, passion, memories, regret and reconciliation, death, forgiveness, and underneath it all, the silent wisdom that derives from how differently we perceive our lives and struggles from the broader, higher perspective of...

Encounters with embarrassment, guilt, self-consciousness, remorse, etc. are an unavoidable part of everyday life, and they sometimes have lessons to teach us - about our goals and values, about the person we expect ourselves to be. In contrast to the prevailing cultural view of shame as a uniformly toxic influence, Shame is a book that approaches the subject of shame as an entire family of emotions which share a “painful awareness of self.”

After a burnt pot and subsequent call to the fire department, Martha’s buttoned-up lawyer son whisks her away from her Iowa home and installs her in an assisted living apartment at Martyn Manor in Poughkeepsie, New York. Bored with her day-to-day routine, Martha finds ways to make her life, and the lives of her friends, more exciting. On top of late-night (by Manor standards) trips to the local college hangout, Martha morphs into an amateur sleuth who solves more than one crime. What really happened to sweet Harold Lancaster? What's the best way to catch a purse-snatcher? And what does ...

14.5 percent of the population are older adults But it’s not a numbers game. When it comes to our aging parents, it’s personal. Packed with emotional baggage. Fraught with fear and exhaustion. Frankly, it’s overwhelming! That’s why I’m telling new stories of real families grappling with the caregiving challenge. It’s why I assembled cutting-edge resources to help us walk the road with our parents and loved ones.—Julie-Allyson Ieron This is the combined story of dozens of adult children and how they learned to cope with the shift from taker to giver. It’s real. Sometimes ...

During her own year of transition—a milestone birthday, a wedding anniversary, the emptying of the nest—Walrond, in the buoyant and luminous style her listeners have come to love, does a deep dive into dimensions of getting older, including health, beauty, spirituality, connection, adventure, and meaning and purpose. Through conversations with social workers and neurologists, activists and clergy, Walrond satisfies her curiosity about why the dominant culture treats aging as a time of dwindling capacity.

Golden Years, Golden Joy was written after more than three decades of sitting across from people who believed their best years were behind them, and watching that belief quietly fall apart. I have learned something aging doesn’t get enough credit for – It strips life down to what matters. The noise fades. The unnecessary falls away. What is left is the opportunity for deeper joy, calmer presence, meaningful connection, and genuine peace. This book is not about denying loss or pretending aging is easy. It’s about discovering what becomes possible when you stop fighting time and start ...

“Refreshingly candid...Niazi is telling her story in medias res, inviting readers to figure the whole mess out with her—and in this era of gentle-parenting TikToks and general advice oversaturation, that feels like a gift.” —Emma Specter, Vogue Channeling the subversive and sharp-eyed...

Gloria Copeland shares the Bible's and her own secrets to living a long, strong, fully satisfying life. In Live Long, Finish Strong, Gloria Copeland presents a scripturally sound program to help readers claim the Bible promise of a long and blessed life ... and a glorious death by "divine...

What makes you purr? Of all the questions in the world, this is the most important. It is also the great leveler. Because no matter whether you are a playful kitten or a sedentary senior, a scrawny alley Tom or a sleek-coated uptown girl, whatever your circumstances, you just want to be happy...

You Built a Whole Life. Why Does It Feel Like You’re Disappearing? You’ve spent decades building a career, raising your family, and pouring yourself into everyone who needed you. You’re competent, experienced, and more capable than ever. So why does it feel like the world has stopped looking at you? It’s not your imagination. Seventy percent of women over fifty report feeling systematically overlooked—at work, in social settings, and in the very relationships they’ve spent years nurturing. The cultural narrative says your most valuable years are behind you. Thrive says that ...