The Elder Journey

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Where elderhood is understood as a threshold of integration, wisdom and possibility

There are many ways to step into this work. Whether you’re guiding others, exploring your own story, or drawn to the deeper philosophy of aging, the elder journey offers a path that meets you where you are.

Ways To Engage

Facilitator Guide
Reflective Life-Story Work

Every community needs people who can hold space for story. This comprehensive guide offers everything you need to lead a six‑session reflective life‑story group — session outlines, developmental prompts, facilitation tips, and printable worksheets. The guide can be used on its own to bring meaningful life‑review conversations into your group. Or for those who want deeper grounding in the narrative model, a facilitator training is available (upon request) to provide additional support, practice, and guidance.

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The Narrative Arc of Aging

The Narrative Arc of Aging offers a fresh and compassionate perspective on later life, reframing aging as a dynamic stage of growth, meaning-making, and continued becoming.

Drawing on research, theory, and the profound power of personal story, this book explores how narrative shapes our identity, guides adaptation, and opens the door to wisdom, connection, and generativity.

How Stories Shape the Lives We Live

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Soul Notes

A Guide to Eldering through Reflection, Story, and Meaning

A contemplative writing practice for individuals seeking meaning-making in everyday life or a tool for conversation, Soul Notes offers gentle prompts, reflective guidance, and a way to deepen personal awareness through story.

This guide is for those navigating the later chapters of life with intention, curiosity, and grace.

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Books to reimagine aging

Exploring the changing story of aging, identity, purpose and community

The Body Never Disappears: Reflections on Aging and Identity

How the aging body, identity, and active acceptance shape meaning and lived experience as we grow older. For decades, gerontology studied aging without really attending to the lived body. Women’s aging, in particular, was treated as an aside — a “special case,” peripheral to the main story. Even feminist theory, so attuned to the politics of embodiment, often sidestepped the aging body because it didn’t fit the movement’s youthful, liberatory energy. But in the work I do an

Why Aging Still Needs a Revolution

Age studies is an academic field that explores how aging is experienced, represented, and socially constructed, rather than focusing solely on biological decline. More than fifty years ago, Simone de Beauvoir published La Vieillesse, a monumental and unsettling study of old age. She was warned not to write it. Even naming “old age” was taboo. When the book appeared in English, its title was softened to The Coming of Age—a euphemism that revealed just how uncomfortable Western