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THE AVERAGE AGE
MEN AND WOMEN FIND THEMSELVES
IN THE MIDST OF THEIR
MIDLIFE CRISIS PASSAGE
“In our middle years we become vulnerable to new doubts, anxieties, and moods. We may suddenly fall in love, break up a marriage, storm out of a job in desperation. We may begin to feel empty, trapped in a life that seems to be living us.
These are “dangerous “moments, but they can set the stage for a whole new phase of development.
It begins to dawn on us, if we pay attention, that’s something more is needed.”
— Robert A. Johnson ‘Living Your Unlived Life’
About Our Offering
Seven weekly 60-90 minute gatherings
Inspired by - Sailing Home: Using the Wisdom of Homer's Odyssey to Navigate Life's Perils and Pitfalls
The offering will be divided into 3 sections similar to the book; ‘Setting Forth’, ‘Disaster’ and ‘Return’
47 - Navigating The MidLife Passage
“If you look at each midlife “event” as a random, stand-alone struggle, you might be lured into believing you’re only up against a small constellation of “crises.” The truth is that the midlife unraveling is a series of painful nudges strung together by low-grade anxiety and depression, quiet desperation, and an insidious loss of control. By low-grade, quiet, and insidious, I mean it’s enough to make you crazy, but seldom enough for people on the outside to validate the struggle or offer you help and respite. It’s the dangerous kind of suffering – the kind that allows you to pretend that everything is OK.”
— Brene Brown
https://brenebrown.com/blog/2018/05/24/the-midlife-unraveling/
Better Boat by Kenny Chesney - (4 minutes - click to listen)
Our hope for this offering is similar to that of the porpoises in Bernard Moitessier’s book ‘The Long Way’.
“For three hours longer they swim like that, each isolated on his own side, without playing, setting their speed by Joshua’s, two or three yards from the boat. I have never seen anything like it. Porpoises have never kept my company that long. I am sure they were given the order to stay with me until Joshua was absolutely out of danger.”
In some small way we hope we can be like the porpoises and show-up at a dangerous time in a man’s life and help them navigate their way through, to safer waters. “
“The Long Way is Bernard Moitessier's own incredible story of his participation in the first Golden Globe Race, a solo, non-stop circumnavigation rounding the three great Capes of Good Hope, Leeuwin, and the Horn. For seven months, the veteran seafarer battled storms, doldrums, gear-failures, knock-downs, as well as overwhelming fatigue and loneliness. Then, nearing the finish, Moitessier pulled out of the race and sailed on for another three months before ending his 37,455-mile journey in Tahiti. Not once had he touched land.”
Bernard Moitessier, the man, the sailor and the wave of destiny
