Midlife crisis spirituality issues can be resolved

Distinguishing between religion and spirituality can be a useful way to resolve your midlife crisis spirituality issues and develop an appreciation of yourself as a spiritual being.

Religion has played an important role in people's lives, but less so today. Anais Nin is not far off the mark in saying that "when we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow."

We ask you to consider the possibility that when we cast our midlife adult gaze on the familiar rituals and structures of the religious practices of our childhood, we start to question their value. We wonder about their relevance to our lives now, and consider taking ourselves away from this access to spirituality.

We're tempted to "throw the baby out with the bath-water" by abandoning our religious practices and not replacing them with another access to our spiritual selves.

Explore with us how religion and spirituality can play a key role in midlife transitions or crises.

A spiritual life coach can help us to connect to our spiritual selves through whichever access is most appropriate to the current stage of our midlife transition.

We share with you how a spiritual life coach may be just what you need to discover meaning and purpose in your life.

Each of us (Dr. Frank and Dr. Fred) has a different point of view about religion and spirituality. For Dr. Frank, Christianity is important; for Dr. Fred, distilling spiritual principles that are common to all religions is important.

Dr. Fred's own path to discovering his spiritual self led him to investigate the practice of Taoism, as well as other Eastern spiritual traditions. He shares how adaptable Taoism is to midlifers going through a midlife transition.

Through contributing our midlife wisdom to others, we can tap into a powerful source of happiness and fulfillment.

We offer some recommendations on how to develop this untapped reservoir of contribution.