These days, most women can expect to live several decades beyond menopause. Until now, there have been virtually no guidebooks for this later life journey, for it is one that our ancestors, with their much lower life expectancy, were rarely privileged to take.

Elderwoman is just such a guidebook.

288 pages paperback

Reap the wisdom.... feel the power.... embrace the joy

These days, most women can expect to live several decades beyond menopause. Until now, there have been virtually no guidebooks for this later life journey, for it is one that our ancestors, with their much lower life expectancy, were rarely privileged to take.

Elderwoman is just such a guidebook. It promises that whoever sets out on her "third age" journey in a spirit of curiosity and awareness, consciously aligning herself with the natural processes of aging -- and with the rhythms of the natural world around her -- will discover unexpected richness, new kinds of power, freedom, and ever deepening joy, as she grows at last into her full potential as a woman and becomes a true elder, a spiritual leader for her times.

The voices and guiding hands of wise elders have been missing, in our modern, Western, youth-oriented culture. But with millions of "baby-boomers" now moving towards their elder years, all this is about to change. If our threatened planet is to come back into balance, these hands and voices will be more and more in evidence, around the world.

Blending ancient wisdom with down to earth common sense, science with spirituality, and humor with poetry, Marian Van Eyk McCain, in a gentle, conversational style, leads us beyond conventional thinking and into a new world of transformational possibility -- the world of the twenty-first century elderwoman.

Marian Van Eyk McCain, BSW (Melbourne), MA, East-West Psychology (C.I.I.S. San Francisco) is the author of seven books and her articles and essays have appeared in a wide range of magazines. She produces an e-zine called the Elderwoman Newsletter and is Co-Editor of a print magazine—the GreenSpirit Journal. She also runs an online social network for ‘third age’ women. Originally a social worker, and then for many years a transpersonal psychotherapist, a workshop leader and a holistic health educator, Marian now concentrates on writing, particularly on issues of conscious ageing, simple living, environmental activism and green spirituality.