Living Mindfully Across the Lifespan: An Intergenerational Guide

Living Mindfully Across the Lifespan: An Intergenerational Guide provides user-friendly, empirically supported information about and answers to some of the most frequently encountered questions and dilemmas of human living, interactions, and emotions.

With a mix of empirical data, humor, and personal insight, each chapter introduces the reader to a significant topic or question, including self-worth, anxiety, depression, relationships, personal development, loss, and death. Along with exercises that clients and therapists can use in daily practice, chapters feature personal stories and case studies, interwoven throughout with the authors’ unique intergenerational perspectives. Compassionate, engaging writing is balanced with a straightforward presentation of research data and practical strategies to help address issues via psychological, behavioral, contemplative, and movement-oriented exercises.

Readers will learn how to look deeply at themselves and society, and to apply what has been learned over decades of research and clinical experience to enrich their lives and the lives of others.

“Kim and her daughter Morgan Penberthy, have written a helpful and accessible book, loaded with practical suggestions for living a better life. They draw on the most recent and most research-based interventions within positive psychology to provide a roadmap for understanding major transitions over the lifespan. This is an excellent read, and virtually everyone who navigates its pages will benefit greatly.”
– Everett L. Worthington, Jr, P.hD., commonwealth professor emeritus since his retirement from Virginia Commonwealth University