The Panic Years: Dates, Doubts, and the Mother of All Decisions
()
About this ebook
Renowned journalist Nell Frizzell explores what happens when a woman begins to ask herself: should I have a baby?
We have descriptors for many periods of life—adolescence, menopause, mid-life crisis, quarter-life crisis—but there is a period of profound change that many women face, often in their late twenties to early forties, that does not yet have a name.
Nell Frizzell is calling this period of flux “the panic years,” and it is often characterized by a preoccupation with one major question: should I have a baby? And from there—do I want a baby? With whom should I have a baby? How will I know when I’m ready?
Decisions made during this period suddenly take on more weight, as questions of love, career, friendship, fertility, and family clash together while peers begin the process of coupling and breeding. But this very important process is rarely written or talked about beyond the clichés of the “ticking clock.”
Enter Frizzell, our comforting guide, who uses personal stories from her own experiences in the panic years to illuminate the larger social and cultural trends, and gives voice to the uncertainty, confusion, and urgency that tends to characterize this time of life.
Frizzell reminds us that we are not alone in this, and encourages us to share our experiences and those of the women around us—as she does with honesty and vulnerability in these pages. Raw and hilarious, The Panic Years is an arm around the shoulder for every woman trying to navigate life’s big decisions against the backdrop of the mother of all questions.
Nell Frizzell
Nell Frizzell is a freelance journalist who writes a column for Vogue and also writes for the Guardian, Elle, Vice, Buzzfeed, the Independent, the Observer, and the Telegraph. She is best known for features and columns on gender, pregnancy, and parenting, and she has been featured several times on various BBC programs. In addition to journalism, Nell has written and performed comedy and works as a lifeguard. She lives in London with her partner and child.
Related to The Panic Years
Related ebooks
Dear Dolly: Collected Wisdom Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My Body Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Jokes to Offend Men Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Millennial Love Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSummary of Dolly Alderton's Everything I Know About Love Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsReally Good, Actually: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Fault Lines: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bad Vibes Only: (and Other Things I Bring to the Table) Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A Very Nice Girl: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5An Ordinary Age: Finding Your Way in a World That Expects Exceptional Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNext Year, for Sure: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sorrow and Bliss: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Notes on Your Sudden Disappearance: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Down the Drain Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Second Place: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Olive Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5More Than You'll Ever Know: A Good Morning America Book Club Pick Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Everybody (Else) Is Perfect: How I Survived Hypocrisy, Beauty, Clicks, and Likes Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5What My Mother and I Don't Talk About: Fifteen Writers Break the Silence Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Under the Influence Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Mika in Real Life: A Good Morning America Book Club PIck Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Summary of Meg Jay's The Defining Decade Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Myth Of The Nice Girl: Achieving a Career You Love Without Becoming a Person You Hate Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Financial Feminist: Overcome the Patriarchy's Bullsh*t to Master Your Money and Build a Life You Love Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Small Pleasures: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pure Colour: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Beautiful World, Where Are You: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Tired as F*ck: Burnout at the Hands of Diet, Self-Help, and Hustle Culture Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
Relationships For You
The Big Book of 30-Day Challenges: 60 Habit-Forming Programs to Live an Infinitely Better Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dumbing Us Down - 25th Anniversary Edition: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5She Comes First: The Thinking Man's Guide to Pleasuring a Woman Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All About Love: New Visions Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I'm Glad My Mom Died Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Boundaries Workbook: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Boundaries with Kids: How Healthy Choices Grow Healthy Children Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex: Creating a Marriage That's Both Holy and Hot Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Covert Passive Aggressive Narcissist: The Narcissism Series, #1 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5ADHD: A Hunter in a Farmer's World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Codependence and the Power of Detachment: How to Set Boundaries and Make Your Life Your Own Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Your Brain's Not Broken: Strategies for Navigating Your Emotions and Life with ADHD Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Influencing, Attracting, and Winning People Over Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: the heartfelt, funny memoir by a New York Times bestselling therapist Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The ADHD Effect on Marriage: Understand and Rebuild Your Relationship in Six Steps Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Art of Loving Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Uniquely Human: A Different Way of Seeing Autism Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Becoming Sister Wives: The Story of an Unconventional Marriage Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
Reviews for The Panic Years
0 ratings0 reviews