Recognizing that women constantly face crises, changes, and life transitions for which they are seldom prepared, The Joy is in the Journey provides an important and practical guide of transitional know-how to help any woman successfully maneuver through the challenges and complexities of her many life changes. Based on Eight Solutions and underlying principles, the book outlines a course of action that includes practicing self-acceptance, becoming balanced, growing spiritually, letting go, choosing to heal, paying attention, taking right action, and living consciously. Together, these Solutions offer an outline for more joyful living by addressing a woman's immediate concerns during a critical or transitional period, while increasing her spiritual consciousness. With compelling examples of other women-in-transition and specific, proven suggestions, the Joy is in the Journey is a hands-on, how to, book that appeals and applies to women of all ages and stages, all beliefs and orientation