Suzy Rosenstein

It's funny how aging works. My teenage boys work as gymnastics coaches with young children. They always get a kick out of asking the little five and six-year-olds how old they think they are. The answer is often 55 or so. My kids think this is hysterical, but if I heard that I looked 30 years older than I really am, I'd probably feel devastated. When I think to myself, "I look younger than I am," I feel relief. I feel confident. I feel luckier than someone who's told they look older than they are.

In your early to mid-fifties, you finally feel like you’re a grown-up while rocking the whole "adulting" thing in life. And yet other times, you realize that you’re more stuck and confused than ever before. Perhaps it's time for a midlife coach. You might not feel it’s a midlife crisis, but the transition into this next chapter might be bumpy without help. You might remember being really good at planning your life and knowing what you wanted to do with clarity and conviction.

When you think about midlife, do you think about reading glasses, colonoscopies, weight gain, boredom at work, and empty nest syndrome? How about a constant stream of going to work, coming home, falling asleep, and repeating it every day? I did, too. Most aren’t comfortable admitting to something called a midlife crisis. I wasn’t, that’s for sure. But many of us start to feel like life is passing us by, and we haven’t accomplished everything on our list yet.