Midlife Crisis at 30
pg 15
More women enter therapy at 30 than at any other point in their lives. In the book Seasons of a Woman's Life, Yale psychologist Daniel Levinson calls "the age 30 transition is a uniquely difficult period," a time of "moderate to severe crisis" for young career women. He describes our panic as "not simply a problem in 'coping with' or 'adjusting to' a single stressful situation. It stems, rather, from the experience that one's life has somehow gone wrong." Essentially, this is the moment at which earlier fantasies and expectations of what adult life looks like clash with the reality of what adult life is like. Thirty is the milestone at which you realize the dress rehearsal is over - this is your real life.
This is the moment in this book when I realized, I need to read what Macko and Rubin had to say.
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