Your Turn

NATIONAL BESTELLER From award-winning health and science correspondent for NPR News and contributor to CBS Sunday Morning comes an illuminating road map for women to reclaim their reserves of power and improving their physical and emotional health in midlife. Not long ago, celebrated journalist Allison Aubrey was having breakfast with her youngest child, who suddenly turned to her and said: Stop looking at me. In that moment, as her daughter signaled a need for independence, Aubrey felt a sting, like shed been fired. She reminded herself: teenager, individuation. Its her job to separate. But...ouch! That moment was a microcosm of what felt like a crisis of both identity and purpose. Many women come upon such feelings of bewilderment at midlife: Beyond being a mother, beyond work, who am I? After years of striving, how do we broaden our horizons past parenting and a paycheck? What else is out there, now that the badges of