Living Mindfully Across the Lifespan

Living Mindfully Across the Lifespan: An Intergenerational Guide provides user-friendly, empirically supported information about and answers to some of the most frequently encountered questions and dilemmas of human living, interactions, and emotions. With a mix of empirical data, humor, and personal insight, each chapter introduces the reader to a significant topic or question, including self-worth, anxiety, depression, relationships, personal development, loss, and death. Along with exercises that clients and therapists can use in daily practice, chapters feature personal stories and case studies, interwoven throughout with the authors' unique intergenerational perspectives. Compassionate, engaging writing is balanced with a straightforward presentation of research data and practical strategies to help address issues via psychological, behavioral, contemplative, and movement-oriented exercises. Readers will learn how to look deeply at themselves and society, and to apply what has been learned over decades of research and clinical experience to enrich their lives and the lives of others.

J. Kim Penberthy, Ph.D., ABPP, is the Chester F. Carlson Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Science at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and is a Board Certified Licensed Clinical Psychologist. J. Morgan Penberthy, B.A., is a well-being advocate and yoga and meditation instructor. She currently works at the American Psychological Association in Washington, DC.

Chapter 1: You Have Worth Just for Existing; Chapter 2: Life is Not Fair: Cope with It!; Chapter 3: Belief Is Half the Battle!; Chapter 4: Bringing Others to the Table; Chapter 5: Put It in Neutral: Interpersonal Mindfulness; Chapter 6: Getting to the Goal; Chapter 7: All Problems Have Solutions!; Chapter 8: Life is Hard: Deal with It!; Chapter 9: I Don't Want to Feel This Way!; Chapter 10: Feeling Crappy? Coping with Pain; Chapter 11: Feeling Happy? Maintaining Joy; Chapter 12: So Long for Now?; Epilogue