Synopses & Reviews
In her practice as a licensed therapist, Sarah Brokaw has developed a specialty: pointing out how women sail beautifully into their most productive and satisfying years.
For years she has run a six-week workshop series in which women of diverse backgrounds meet, share, and support each other in achieving professional and personal goals. She now also facilitates discussion groups on the topic all across the country--from Provo, Utah, to Oxford, Mississippi, from Livingston, Montana, to Washington, D.C. Through these groups and discussions, Brokaw has identified five Sustaining Core Values held by those women who navigate midlife most smoothly. In Forty-tude, she shows how any woman can foster these qualities in herself:
- Grace arises when a woman lives with integrity, capitalizing on her own strengths while admiring the strengths of others without jealousy;
- Connectedness derives from a woman's satisfaction with the connections she has with others;
- Accomplishment--the sense of it--is necessary in today's world, when women are expected to cram forty-eight hours of living into every twenty-four-hour day;
- Adventure requires a willingness to seek experiences or challenges outside the normal comfort zone;
- Spirituality reflects the crafting of a personal approach to religion, and an understanding that life is more than just the day-to-day details.
Synopsis
In her practice as a licensed therapist and through discussion groups all across the country, Sarah Brokaw has discovered that the women who navigate midlife most smoothly--who go on to prosper and to enjoy the best years of their lives--are those who foster five Core Values in themselves. In
Fortytude, she shows how any woman can nourish these qualities in herself, and evolve and thrive.
The five Core Values are:
Grace - when a woman lives with integrity, capitalizing on her own strengths while admiring the strengths of others
Connectedness - experiencing satisfaction in connections with others
Accomplishment - the sense of realizing goals and getting things done--which is necessary in today's world, when women are expected to cram 48 hours of living into every 24-hour day
Adventure - a willingness to seek challenges outside the normal comfort zone
Spirituality - a personal approach to religion, and an understanding that life has a meaning beyond the day-to-day details
In Brokaw's reassuring voice and through the stories of incredible women from all walks of life, readers can learn how they, too, can embrace and fully enjoy their forties, fifties, and beyond.
About the Author
Sarah Brokaw is a licensed therapist with a practice in Venice Beach, California, with an expertise in relational dynamics. Brokaw graduated from Duke University and earned a Masters in Social Work from New York University. Philanthropically, she has been actively involved with the organizations Women for Women International and Robin Hood in New York City, and she has served on the boards for the NYU School of Social Work Alumni Committee and the East Harlem School at Exodus House.