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Coming to Terms with Aging

Candians-hear Michael on
CKMX Radio, covering
Midwestern Ontario -
The Phil Main Show
Monday September 14 at 9:15 AM
101.7 on the dial.
Subject:
Coming to Terms with Aging.

Books on aging offer secrets to stay young. But isn't it smarter to age gracefully and live a fuller life?

Unlike people from many other cultures, Americans have been obsessed with denying their aging. For decades we've done whatever it takes to ignore, repress, deny and hide from it--to force this inevitable reality from our consciousness.

However, as members of the baby boomer generation are gaining in years, Americans are taking a second look at ageism and mortality, and it's changing them and our culture for the better. At last aging and mortality are coming 'out of the closet.'

Michael Grossman, author of Coming to Terms with Aging: The Secret to Meaningful Time talks about the benefits of facing the fear of aging and learning how to lower our anxiety about being mortal. His book will also be available for sale and signing.

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Author, I Michael Grossman

SHRINKWRAPPED: my first fifty years on the couch.



Number 24 on Amazon's "Hot New Releases List"-5/2/2009

Thursday, September 10, 2009,
7:00 PM

Newport Public Library
300 Spring Street
Newport, RI 02840
Contact phone: 401-847-8720

Cost: FREE--- Suggested Audiences: Adult

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Perhaps the world’s
longest coming-of-age story,
SHRINKWRAPPED
shows how one man’s search for a better life worked—at last.

See YouTube book trailer.

In a blue-collar Michigan town where corporal punishment was seen as positive parenting, troubled families rarely sought professional help. But Michael Grossman’s teachers sent him to see a Freudian psychoanalyst at age 8. It was the first of a parade of therapies that would include Rogerian bear-hugs, Gestalt dream analysis, Rolfing, Bioenergetics and even LSD.

Sitting beside Michael on a succession of “shrinks’” couches, the reader follows his progress through one defense after another until he finally achieves a joyful capacity to care for others.

Untangling the complex, sometimes eccentric and other times abusive family relationships that enmeshed his Midwestern boyhood in the mid-20th century, the author finally faces fundamental truths that lead to a profound transformation.

By turns funny, poignant and shocking, Shrinkwrapped is a story of hope, of growing insight and ultimately of love reborn.

 


Past Events with the Author

Manhattan, New York - Mid-Manhattan Public Library held
July 29, 2009

Ludlow Vt Public Library held
June 18, 2009

Hartford Ct Public Library held
June 3, 2009

Providence RI Public Library held
June 7, 2008

Hartford Public Library - Hartford, CT. held June 24, 2008

New York Mid Manhattan Public Library held on Manhattan on July 22, 2008