When you’re twenty, forty seems impossibly old. The closer you get to that major milestone, the more feelings about hurling toward midlife are likely to come up, as Gabi, whose fortieth birthday looms just on the other side of the publishing date of this episode, can tell you. In this episode, we talk about our relationships to the process of aging, and what, if anything, can be done to do it with grace and relative sanity.

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Links

Fearing Aging: https://www.dailynews.com/2021/12/05/why-we-fear-aging-and-what-we-can-do-about-it/

Turning 40 without the Fear https://www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/2018/07/27/this-is-40-cloe-axelson

https://www.forbes.com/sites/samanthaettus/2012/07/09/what-to-know-about-turning-40/?sh=f209ba134e4b

Millenials are turning 40: https://mashable.com/article/millennials-turn-40

The Happiness Curve by Jonathan Rauch: https://www.amazon.com/Happiness-Curve-Life-Better-After/dp/1250078806