Book review

'Navigating Midlife: Women Becoming Themselves'
by Robyn Vickers-Willis

The description on the back cover of 'Navigating Midlife: Women Becoming Themselves' sums up the book perfectly: "This powerful, insightful book provides you with the tools to choose how to live the second half of your life, and it offers you vital possibilities for meaningful and profound change”.

The book was recommended to me by several women who attended the Australian Association of Career Counsellors (AACC) conference in Canberra in 2005, who went to Robyn Vickers-Willis' presentation and found it very stimulating.

There are four parts to the book – 'What is Midlife Transition?', 'Finding Your True Self', 'Creating a New Personal World', and 'The Journey Never Ends'. 

Robyn Vickers-Willis is a psychologist and has used the changes in her own midlife transition as a catalyst to research, and provide a framework for, why this can be a time of dramatic change in women’s lives. She also provides tools and strategies to help women move towards increasing clarity and confidence about who they are and what they want from their lives.

I thoroughly enjoyed the book and found it helpful and inspirational – both for my own understanding and also to help me gain insight and strategies for working with women in my day-to-day career practice.

Reviewed by Jennifer Ross, Career Consultant, Career Services