In dealing with depression associated with divorce, it's easy to move quickly to wanting to solve it, to get past it. But it may be important for us to ask, "What is in the depression? Could it possibly have any gifts for me?"

In my last post, I focused on what midlife transition and midlife crisis in women look like, and I continue that here. A woman's journey through midlife and the second half of life differs from a man's, both because of her feminine identity and because…

Women are often acutely aware of midlife transition and midlife crisis due to menopause. Yet, psychology and Jungian /a-midlife-transition reveal several less well known aspects of female midlife transition. Here are five key signs of the emotional, spiritual and psychological midlife journey in women.

In this second part of my post on 5 signs of midlife transition or midlife crisis in men, I look at 2 further signs: issues of value and meaning; and, issues around loneliness. Such signs may emerge in anyone who is making the middle passage,…