A woman stands in the kitchen with both of her hands over her heart as she practices gratitude to build midlife happiness and resilience.

Midlife Happiness and Resilience

You mapped your life out with loving intention, and then, life laughs at your carefully crafted plans and goes in a completely different direction. How can you discover midlife happiness and resilience with a life that has run so completely off track? Here’s what I’ve learned in this messy, beautiful, unpredictable middle of life: gratitude isn’t about pretending everything is fine. True gratitude is far from blind cheerfulness. And, when gratitude feels furthest from your mind, that is when you need its practice most.