From James Hollis, author of Second Chances, Real Stories (The Second Chances Series, Book 1)
Something is shifting. A restlessness. A quiet knowing that the life you built is no longer the life you want.
Midlife is not a crisis. It is an unbinding. A slow, sometimes painful, often beautiful process of releasing the identities, beliefs, and obligations that no longer fit.
THE MIDLIFE UNBECOMING is a gentle guide to the art of letting go ? of who you were told to be, of the people-pleasing that exhausted you, of the achievement that never satisfied, of the caregiving that left you empty.
Inside you will discover:
• How to listen to the whisper that has been calling you
• The roles that no longer fit (and the grief of outgrowing them)
• The expectations you carried that were never yours
• How to stop performing and start living
• The courage of disappointing others to be true to yourself
• The beauty of the space between who you were and who you are becoming
This is not a book about becoming someone new. It is about returning to who you always were ? before the world told you who to be.
THE SECOND CHANCES SERIES
Book 1: Second Chances, Real Stories (Career Reinvention)
Book 2: Second Chances at Work (Career Pivot)
Book 3: The Midlife Unbecoming (Identity)
Book 4: Second Chances in Love (Relationships)
Book 5: The 50-Year-Old Startup (Entrepreneurship)
JAMES HOLLIS is the author of Second Chances, Real Stories, Second Chances at Work, Second Chances in Love, The Geometry of Moving On, and Letters to My Younger Self.
