Perfect timing: Facing the future without fear
Facilitated by Maria Trozzi, women in their second half of life are invited to this small group of other women who consider how to live their best physical, mental, and spiritual life to promote mental health and longevity.
The Invitation: Perfect Timing - Discovering Our Best Life
Third chapter - Encore! - the second half…. These well-worn phrases describe a phase of life for which we may feel ill-equipped to optimize for success… more open days on our calendars, more gentle reminders of our aging bodies (and spirits)….less relevance in the daily world spin… more quiet anxiety about maximizing opportunities that give us happiness, birthday reminders of time moving too fast: put bluntly, the aging process.
Join Maria Trozzi October 7,14 21, 1-3pm, in the UCC Library, as she maps out an achievable guide for all of us to find our best life in its second half.
From research and clinical experience, with insight, compassion and humor, she will explore the challenges and hidden opportunities that come with aging:
Considering our impact, our relevance, our losses, our gains in context
The special case of ‘strivers’ (that’s most of us!)
Why chasing happiness is over-rated
How neuroscience and social science can unlock the surprising power of:
Using our ‘crystallized’ intelligence
Actively choosing new habits, and retiring others
Taming our anxiety about ‘what if’ that holds us back
Letting go….or the myth of being in control
“I feel badly about my ‘sagging (fill in any body part)” and other physical reminders in the mirror
How facing our mortality offers us a gift…
Perfect Timing
Imagine yourself with a Small Community of Women
Who, like you, find themselves
Facing the Second Half of their Lives
Here’s an Opportunity to Consider
What Research tells us about How to
Live Our Very Best* Lives
And Face our Future
Without Fear
We will Listen, Learn and Laugh
(perhaps even shed a tear or two)
We will Stretch ourselves and
Share our Stories and
Leave with a
Bounty of Hope and
Riches and
Gratitude
*Best physical, emotional, mental health and longevity