Retired Women—Laughing at Gravity
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Middle of the night waking so common to retired women is usually blamed on hormones--or the habit of trying to sleep face-up to avoid new facial creases from the pillow. Doctors will medicate us immediately if we call our nocturnal mental meanderings "worry." However, medication helps very little since we then must worry about what the doctor is not telling us. Actually, it would be more accurate to call the sticky notes in our brain "unfinished business." In the middle of the night, after we have had a good nap, we are ready to "delete" and "restore" information on our mental computers. For example, should we delete resentment and restore forgiveness? Should we delete self-doubt and restore confidence? If we welcome insomnia as a gift of retirement we can hold unbelievably productive conversations with ourselves. Or we can just close our mental laptops, plug ourselves into our transistor radios and listen to late-night jazz.
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About the Book
As a psychotherapist for thirty years, Sheila Lopez spent several thousand hours talking with clients about the meaning of life, eventually learning the secret of good mental health in any chapter of life: It’s all in how you look at it. In her collection of witty anecdotes, Sheila shares cheerful, inspiring advice on how retired women can have more fun in their everyday lives, find joy in simple pleasures, and realize that aging is funny!
With hilarious honesty, Sheila reveals the secrets to achieving beauty and happiness as women age, through essays that provide entertaining glimpses at not only her life, but the lives of her close friends as well. From fashion secrets that include trading in polyester suits for glitter and bling to fulfilling a childhood dream of throwing a tea party for a group of girlfriends, Sheila teaches other women that it is okay to be proud of laugh lines and walk into the future with joy and gratitude.
Retired Women—Laughing at Gravity is a wonderful reference manual for any woman who wants to turn the Golden Years into the most comical times of her life.
About the Author
Sheila Lopez is a sixty-something retired psychotherapist who was in private practice for thirty years. Sheila lives in a home with a license plate in Auburn, California. This is her first book.