Often I have felt like I was all alone - just me and life's trials. Do you know what I mean? Each stage of my life has presented many challenges but I think the time that my daughters left home was the beginning of a whole new set of challenges for me. I was from a large family. I married right out of high school. Shortly after we married, I became pregnant. So I had never really been "alone." However, when the girls left for college, I found myself alone for the first time in my life and I did not like it. I did not like this new "loneliness" feeling. I did not know what to do with myself. I had work to do but I seemed to have a desire to be "needed." Doing my day to day chores did not fulfill this basic need in me. You have to admit that when you are a mother, wife, homemaker, seamstress, Doctor, nurse, storyteller, cook and everything else, you are "needed" Have you ever felt like that in your life? Can you understand what I am saying?
Joan Anderson is the author of " The Second Journey: The Road Back to Yourself." This book gets a 5 Star from me. I loved it. The Second Journey chronicles Joan's quest to restore her own inner self . Joan writes this book with her characteristic humor and warmth. The Second Journey is a permission slip for any woman who seeks to step out of line and create her own destiny.
Joan tells of her experience trying to do "everything" for everybody except herself. She finally was told by her family and friends that she was just stretched too thin. She then journeys to find herself. I think we all, as some point in our lives try to take care of everyone except ourselves. It does get to be too much and we must take the journey that Joan takes in this book. We each have to find our own road to travel. It is nice to know that someone out there has already learned this and shares their experience with us. This is a must read for all women who are going through some kind of change in their personal lives.
Joan has the ability to not only write about her feelings but she also helps others to deal with those same feelings as well. She is a multi-talented lady. A lady that I think most women can relate to on many levels, no matter what age she is. Joan is a journalist and the best selling author of "A Year By The Sea." She lives with her husband on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
"The Second Journey" offers reassurance that the best is yet to come and empowers other women to come of age in the middle of life. I highly recommend this book to all women who are going through a change in their life.
Joan is the current feature Author in the group Getting Better All The Time. This is a new group but has quickly won me over as a interested reader. I think it will you too.
Joan Anderson is a sought after national speaker, (National Business Women's Association; Harvard Medical School: Georgetown Medical School; Center for Career Renewal at Harvard; Harvard Divinity School; Colby-Sawyer College; 92nd Street Y in New York City; Southeastern Booksellers Association; Chicago Dental Society; and the Marion Foundation).
Joan conducts week-end workshops for women around the country.
You can enjoy workshops on Gather or in person! She has been posting her workshops in the form of articles in the group Getting Better All The Time.
Have you been following these "mini workshops" or articles that Joan has been publishing? They are really interesting. I have been enjoying each of them.
You Don't Get A Gold Watch For Menopause
Fleshing It Out-To Thine Own Body Be True
How's your life? When's the last time you evaluated it?
Become a Rebel with a Cause - Step Out of Line
How Many Stripes Have You Earned? Exercise II
Discussion Questions for "The Second Journey" by Joan Anderson
Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Hyperion (April 29, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1401303390
ISBN-13: 978-1401303396
Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 5.3 x 0.7 inches
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