Summary of Mary Pipher's Women Rowing North

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#1 The one thing we can predict about our own lives is that they will be unpredictable. In this life stage, we will be beset by internal and external crises. We must find a new sense of meaning and purpose in our lives.

#2 As we age, our bodies and relationships change, and the pace of change accelerates. We must develop new habits to meet the challenges of this life stage. Change may be gradual, but our realization of it comes in bursts.

#3 We can grow in our moral imagination. This increased capacity for empathy comes from our own suffering and our witnessing of suffering. Pain drives us deeper and makes us kinder. It also makes us tougher.

#4 We are constantly engaged in a process of reflecting and problem solving. We ask questions such as Now that I have time to travel, where do I want to go. and Since my best friend moved to Arizona, whom do I call for a movie date.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Mar 22, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669366881

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Contents

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Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The one thing we can predict about our own lives is that they will be unpredictable. In this life stage, we will be beset by internal and external crises. We must find a new sense of meaning and purpose in our lives.

#2

As we age, our bodies and relationships change, and the pace of change accelerates. We must develop new habits to meet the challenges of this life stage. Change may be gradual, but our realization of it comes in bursts.

#3

We can grow in our moral imagination. This increased capacity for empathy comes from our own suffering and our witnessing of suffering. Pain drives us deeper and makes us kinder. It also makes us tougher.

#4

We are constantly engaged in a process of reflecting and problem solving. We ask questions such as Now that I have time to travel, where do I want to go. and Since my best friend moved to Arizona, whom do I call for a movie date.

#5

Willow is a 72-year-old woman who is fit and stylish with dark brown eyes and wavy auburn hair. She is at the peak of a long and satisfying career in human services. She is the only daughter of Russian immigrant parents who died when they were in their sixties, her father of a stroke and her mother of a heart attack.

#6

Willow loves her job, and she is very good at it. She can describe herself as happy or sorrowful, and she can emphasize her current prosperous life or her childhood poverty. She cannot stand the thought of being helpless or enfeebled.

#7

The more trauma we experience, the more we can