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The Joy of Growing Up: Growing Up for Grownups Who Haven't Grown Up Yet
 
 

The Joy of Growing Up: Growing Up for Grownups Who Haven't Grown Up Yet (Paperback)

by Wendy Freebourne (Author) "Although we talk about growing up, in fact, apart from growing to your full height, you do not grow up; you just become more of..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Authors Online Ltd (29 Sep 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0755210298
  • ISBN-13: 978-0755210299
  • Product Dimensions: 21 x 13.8 x 1.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 109,117 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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Growing up is an ongoing, challenging, exciting and satisfying journey. In this book, Wendy Freebourne takes you through that journey, step by step, giving you the tools you need to navigate it successfully. She shows you how responsibility, chosen carefully and taken on willingly, brings freedom and fulfilment; and how, although your physical abilities change as you get older, this does not mean that illness and infirmity are necessary results of aging.

This book is written in an insightful, practical but gentle and compassionate, spiritual style. It gives a holistic overview, while also paying attention to practicality and detail. You will find realistic advice for moving into a maturity that is not painful or burdensome, but joyful, if also less predictable than you were brought up to believe it would be. It gives models for growing up in the twenty-first century.

‘. . . elucidations of how and why we function within a sometimes highly dysfunctional world and how we can do that more effectively have led me to revelations, research and new training opportunities.’ Fraser Trevor MSc, Addiction Counsellor and Research Scientist



About the Author

Wendy Freebourne was born in 1947 in East London, where
she started her education, mainly in the University of Life. She is a practising psychotherapist in Bath, England.

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5.0 out of 5 stars It's a Joy to be Grown Up, 17 Oct 2005
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How refreshing to find a book that blows away the myths about growing up. The first part is about the basics of growing up, the stages of development, and explains the difference between healthy and unhealthy dependency and independence. I never realised independence could be unhealthy; the author calls this pseudo-independence. She also explains the difference between dependency and inter-dependence. This part clarifies the transitions we make as we grow up and also what we need to make these transitions completely. I was glad to read that independence is not incompatible with inter-dependence. I particularly liked the way the various benefits of being grown up are described in the second part as tools, with clear information on how to use these tools, including sexuality. And the stories in each chapter that illustrate how people have completed their transitions, even as adults, are encouraging. The book explains that growing up is an ongoing process and, having dealt with the basics and the practicalities, the last part looks at the spiritual implications of finding meaning and purpose, dignity and serenity - even looks briefly at mortality.
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