{"id":6428,"date":"2021-02-12T07:50:42","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T12:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silvercentury.org\/?p=6428"},"modified":"2021-02-12T07:51:30","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T12:51:30","slug":"women-rowing-north-navigating-lifes-currents-and-flourishing-as-we-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2021\/02\/women-rowing-north-navigating-lifes-currents-and-flourishing-as-we-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Rowing North: Navigating Life\u2019s Currents and Flourishing as We Age"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Mary Pipher \u2013 Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n

Mary Pipher is a cultural anthropologist and clinical psychologist whose academic focus has been developmental psychology and trauma. She lectures and writes about cultural and social themes around women, drawing on her roles as a mother, grandmother, daughter, sister, wife and caregiver. Her bestseller <\/span>Reviving Ophelia<\/span><\/i> (1994) focused on the complex lives of teenage girls. <\/span>Women Rowing North<\/span><\/i> takes on older women, with a focus on those 70 and older.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pipher leaves few stones unturned as she helps readers navigate upstream in the \u201criver\u201d of aging to a place of authenticity and self-acceptance. She\u2019s gentle but candid: adapt or fossilize. If it\u2019s bliss you\u2019re after, there\u2019s work to do. She looks at ageism all around us but also from within. Weaving individual stories of four women throughout the book, she writes about managing grief and loneliness, while illustrating the ways adversity has made us able to take the hard knocks. Pipher encourages us to really get to know ourselves, to express anger when appropriate and to say no when it\u2019s in our best interests\u2014and not feel guilty about it. The bottom line is that women need to cultivate resilience to flourish in later life. This book embraces the journey in a way that is truly inspiring. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mary Pipher is a cultural anthropologist and clinical psychologist whose academic focus has been developmental psychology and trauma.<\/span><\/p>\n

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