The Your Turn
How to Create a Midlife You Love
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The Your Turn
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Allison Aubrey
About this listen
Not long ago, celebrated journalist Allison Aubrey was having breakfast with her youngest child, who suddenly turned to her and said: Stop looking at me. In that moment, as her daughter signaled a need for independence, Aubrey felt a sting, like she’d been fired as caretaker-in-chief. She reminded herself: teenager, individuation. It’s her job to separate. But…ouch!
That moment was a microcosm of what felt like a crisis of both identity and purpose. Many women come upon such moments of bewilderment at midlife: Beyond being a mother, beyond work, who am I? After years of striving, how do we broaden our horizons beyond parenting and a paycheck? What else is out there, now that the badges of achievement have started to feel less important?
Aubrey had watched colleagues retire, leaving behind the frenetic pace and excitement of daily journalism, only to flail from a lack of purpose and connection. If the smartest people she knew were struggling, who was thriving? Who was getting it right? To find the answers, she took a sabbatical and set out on a curiosity tour. She tuned her searchlight for people oozing with energy and adventure. Deep within, she feared she wouldn’t find them, or that she would be disappointed. Maybe the best years are behind?
But what she discovered “changed my life,” Aubrey says. The result is her first book, Your Turn: How to Create a Midlife You Love, which answers the question “What’s next?” with an overwhelmingly electrifying message and a winning and deeply practical road map to reimagine your life.
Aubrey presents a captivating collection of “third turners,” real people, not rich or famous, but women from all walks of life, ages forty-five to 105, who have reshaped their purpose, putting creativity, connection, and joy at the center of their third turn. Aubrey found a pattern among women who have made successful third turns. Each began by looking inward to prioritize self. Then they looked outward in search of purpose and connection. Each identified a passion—from creative pursuits to mission-makers who want to help solve a problem, to a return to a childhood pursuit or dream. And each found community and adventure along the way.
Within these pages, you’ll find much more than beautifully crafted storytelling. Aubrey takes what she’s learned, both from the scores of fascinating women she met and over her decades of reporting as a journalist, to give readers a playbook for what could be next. She weaves together incredibly powerful tools of rediscovery to help you reignite your passions and hit your stride in midlife and beyond.
She curates all the best tools to help readers answer a key question: Who am I now? She walks readers through strategies to excavate their passions and rediscover what lights them up. She cuts through the clutter of health and self-improvement advice and offers readers indispensable, evidence-backed strategies to thrive. A kind of What Color Is Your Parachute for middle age; she gives us surprisingly simple yet specific steps we can take to make the most of our third turns now.
Aubrey combines the rigor her audiences have come to expect with the attunement, curiosity, and sense of service that have made so many of her health stories go massively viral. This book is for everyone seeking meaning and momentum. It is the new blueprint for your midlife reawakening, with an empowering, essential message for women: the best time of your life starts now.
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