Honey, They Shrunk My Hormones: Humor and Insight from the Trenches of Midlife

by Caron Chandler Loveless

Overview

With compassion and insight, Caron Chandler Loveless uses humor — lots of it — to inspire and encourage women as they face midlife. Loveless writes with sensitivity about more than estrogen and hot flashes; she confronts self-image questions, the empty-nest syndrome, ailing parents, and the fear of letting go, among other topics, and gives a hopeful outlook to the new world that lies ahead.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781582292892
Publisher:	Howard Books
Publication date:	01/01/2003
Edition description:	Original
Pages:	223
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Caron Chandler Loveless is a bestselling author, artist, life coach, and cohost of The Live True Podcast. She has authored and coauthored numerous books and magazine articles. For over twenty-five years, Caron used her strategic leadership and artistic gifts serving on the executive staff of Discovery Church in Orlando, Florida. She and her husband are currently dedicated to helping others break through the barriers that hinder them from living, loving, and leading with a healthy soul, and are parents to three dynamic adult sons.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	xi
Part 1	Midlife Is Real, and Real Women Go There
1.	Pardon Me, but Your Midlife Is Showing	3
2.	Has Anyone Seen My Hormones?	9
3.	Wombs to Go	17
4.	If You Can't Stand the Heat, You're Not Alone	25
5.	Everybody's Doing the Birthday Bash	33
	Midlife Awareness Quiz	41
Part 2	Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
6.	In Defense of the Chicken-Breasted Mammogram	45
7.	Huffin' with the Health-Club Hotties	55
8.	Keeping Your Chin Up	65
9.	When Little Fears Become a Factor	71
10.	It's Been a Hard-Dazed Night	79
	Blasts from the Past Worth Keeping	86
Part 3	Midlife Relationships: Holding On, Letting Go
11.	Separation Anxiety	91
12.	Support for Mothers of Males	101
13.	What's Really Eating the Sandwich Generation?	109
14.	Did Somebody Say the G-Word?	125
15.	She's Having a Baby...at Forty!	133
	122 Things You Should Know by Now	143
Part 4	I Will Survive and Thrive
16.	Restocking the Empty Nest	151
17.	Midlife Goes to the Dogs	163
18.	A Month in the Middle of Life	169
19.	I Think I Can Face the Music, If Someone Will Dance with Me	181
20.	A Little Whine Is Good for the Heart	191
	Midlife Survival Guide	200
	Conclusion: My Prayer for Your Passage	205
	Notes	208