Navigating the messy middle : a fiercely honest and wildly encouraging guide for midlife women / Ann Douglas.

Douglas interviews well over one hundred women of different backgrounds and identities, sharing their diverse conversations about the complex and intertwined issues that women must grapple with at midlife: from family responsibilities to career pivots, health concerns to building community. Readers will find a book that offers practical, evidence-based strategies for thriving at midlife, coupled with first-person stories. Offering purpose and meaning in a life stage that can otherwise feel out of control, Douglas pushes back against the message that women at midlife are no longer relevant and needed, highlighting the farreaching economic, political and social impacts of these messages and providing a counter-narrative that maps out a path forward for women at midlife.