The inner work of age

Paperbound; xx + 393 pp., including an appendix, a bibligraphy, and an index. The author is an OFJ speaker. Contents: Foreword: Meeting the shadow of age / Harry R. Moody Prologue: A letter to my fellow travelers in later life Introduction: Age is our curriculum Part 1: The divine messengers 1. Aging from the inside out 2. The three portals of age 3. Meeting ageism from the inside out and outside in 4. Retirement as a divine messenger 5. Life-changing illness as a divine messenter Part 2: Life review and life repair 6. A review of your lived and unlived life 7. Emotional and creative repair to release the past and live in the present 8. Spiritual repair to reimagine our beliefs and reclaim our practices Part 3: From hero to elder 9. Elder with a thousand faces 10. Elder wisdom and the call to age into awakening 11. Elder activisim and the call to serve something larger than ourselves Part 4: Life completion 12. Moving toward a completed life 13. Reimagining death as the last rite Epilogue: A legacy letter to the grandchildren Acknowledgments Appendix: A shadow-work handbook for aging consciously Bibliography Index