Authentic Life Resources

One of the hardest things to accept about life is that its only constant is change. We understand and expect that there will be change as we move from our childhood to adolescence, yet we think all that change will cease once we hit adulthood. What if instead, we started to think of those so-called “mid-life crisis” moments as simply another step in our growth? Our shift into a mid-life adolescence.

If you’ve been grappling with feelings of unease in your own life, here are some of our favourite resources that might help.

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Getting Out of Our Own Way

• Rising Strong: The Reckoning. the Rumble. the Revolution by Brené Brown
  

Shaping an Authentic Life

• Steering by Starlight: Find Your Right Life, No Matter What! by Martha Beck

• The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self by Martha Beck
  

Finding Your Passion and Goal Setting

• Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else by Geoff Colvin

• The Desire Map: A Guide to Creating Goals with Soul by Danielle LaPorte

• The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything by Ken Robinson