Our years between 45 and 65 are no longer a time for decline into old age. Ideally, once the awareness of our 40th 50th or 60th birthday hits, or the last child leaves home, a number of new opportunities arise, allowing us to savor what we have accomplished so far, create new directions, explore where we fit in the larger scheme of things, and determine what we ultimately want from our lives.

In Finding Meaning, Facing Fears: Living Fully Twixt Midlife and Retirement, clinical psychologist Jerrold Lee Shapiro invites you to re-envision this unique time in your life and discover opportunities to stretch in your capacities, face and conquer old demons, and meet new challenges with fresh resources.

Dr. Shapiro will help you discover which alternatives will best serve your relationships, career goals, personal growth objectives, and even spiritual quests. The text offers answers to inevitable life questions like: "Is that all there is?" "Where do I go from here?" "Is it too late to change my life?" "Why aren't I happier?" The book features real-life vignettes from 45-65-year old women and men who are exceedingly open and honest about their lives.

Thoughtful and empowering, Finding Meaning, Facing Fears offers fresh perspective on a previously uncharted life transition.

Dr. Jerrold Shapiro's Finding Meaning, Facing Fears welcomes readers into the world of existentialism with a sure and gentle hand. In so doing, he accomplishes something remarkable—he takes the angst one might experience watching time march on and transforms it for readers into a parade of possibility and opportunity. This isn't a textbook, it's a book about the text of our lives, that we will continue to write—one hopes—into midlife and beyond." —Lee Daniel Kravetz, M.A., LMFT, Author of SuperSurvivors: The Surprising Link Between Suffering and Success and Strange Contagion

Jerrold Lee Shapiro, Ph.D., professor of counseling psychology at Santa Clara University, graduated from Boston Latin School, Colby College, Northwestern University, and the University of Waterloo. He is an award-winning master teacher and author, licensed clinical psychologist, and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. In 2020, he received the Teacher of the Year Award from Division 49 of the American Psychological Association, The Society of Group Psychology and Group Psychotherapy. He has written more than 15 books on family, psychology, counseling, and life transitions.