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McGarey found herself howling with rage for almost 10 minutes as she drove home from work on the highway one night after her divorce, having “never felt so hurt or humiliated.”

  McGarey found herself howling with rage for almost 10 minutes as she drove home from work on the highway one night after her divorce, having “never felt so hurt or humiliated.”  But then she just stopped, struck dumb by the realization “that some unknown thing was coming for me”—a future she had never imagined for herself—and it was a gift.  (The epiphany was so powerful that McGarey ordered herself a customized “BE GLAD” license plate soon after.) “If you’re stuck , you can choose to stay stuck, or you can choose to start looking for light and love or whatever it is you would like to have,” says McGarey. “There are always ways of calling out for help in your dreams, in your prayers, in your thinking.  If you keep thinking about how you’re going to get out and, on the soul level, what you were put on this earth to do, then things move. You don’t stay stuck
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Keep growing on a soul level

 Keep growing on a soul level   If you can take advantage of an intergenerational program in which adults spanning decades study (and in some cases live) side by side on university campuses, more power to you. Golden enrolled in a yearlong program at Stanford University at 61 and was delighted to discover that she and her classmates, who ranged in age from their 20s to their 80s, “were all at exactly the same stage of life—learning, rethinking what we wanted to do, resetting our life priorities. It was just one of the most rejuvenating experiences you can imagine.” According to professor emeritus of psychology and neuroscience at McGill University Daniel Levitin, PhD, gratitude works “at any age” to increase happiness. “Practice gratitude for what you have. This is motivating, alters brain chemistry toward more positive emotions , and oils the pleasure circuits of the brain,” he writes in Successful Aging. You can get a bump from appreciating something as simple as the taste o...
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