pstrongAnn Douglas, author of the bestselling Mother of All Books series, is back with a fierce and unapologetic book for and about midlife women.strongppRoughly 68 million North American women currently grapple with the challenges of midlife, faced with a culture that tells them their best-before date has long passed. In emNavigating the Messy Middleem, Ann Douglas pushes back against this toxic narrative, providing Gen X women with evidence-based strategies for thriving at midlife.ppIn this deeply validating and encouraging book, Douglas interviews well over one hundred women of different backgrounds and identities, sharing their diverse conversations about the complex and intertwined issues that women must grapple with at midlife from family responsibilities to career pivots, health concerns to building community. Readers will find a book that offers practical, evidence-based strategies for thriving at midlife, coupled with compelling first-person stories.p pOffering purpose and mea