Things I've learned this week.

Maybe there's no such thing as a "mid-life crisis", instead,  it's a "mid-life epiphany".  Maybe people are finally old enough and wise enough to realize that they have taken the wrong path for the wrong reasons and anxiety is their barometer. 

When we throw the word "crisis" around, it is a means of control. We want people to think that what they are feeling or doing is wrong, "think with your head", we say, because we ourselves are afraid of change, afraid of risk.  Crisis is what happens before all hell breaks loose.  

Choose, instead, to use the word "epiphany" and we are acknowledging a sudden moment of clarity, of light, giving them the freedom to "follow their heart".  That elicits constructive, positive change.  By mid-life they've darn well earned the right.