Aging in High Heels: Living a Life with Passion, Hope & Laughter - Softcover

Fead, Beverlye Hyman

9780692574584: Aging in High Heels: Living a Life with Passion, Hope & Laughter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692574581 ISBN 13: 9780692574584

Publisher: Ridgedale Press, 2016

This book is part memoir and part inspiration, dealing with the subject of health, death of loved ones, forgetting, doctors' appointments, travel, exercise, nutrition, and more as you age. It is written with humor, and sometimes melancholy. It will resonate with those from their 50s through their 90s, clarifying what it's like to be not quite what you used to be but maybe more in a whole different way. This book tells the story of dealing with a disease, in this case, stage IV cancer, while growing older, managing to keep active physically and mentally, and finding time to help others, pay it forward, and share wonderful walks and laughter with friends. From growing up in the old Beverly Hills to divorcing and moving to Santa Barbara and making a new life, the author describes the feeling of "if I can do this, you can do it too." After being diagnosed with stage IV cancer, Beverlye Hyman Fead found a passion talking to cancer patients, giving back inspiration, writing books, making documentaries, and now focusing her time explaining her breakthrough generation, the "new old" that she is proud to be part of. At 81, photographer, writer, and speaker Beverlye Hyman Fead shows us how we can live a life with passion, hope, and laughter.

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Review:

A joy, every page... You have so much to share. No one really knows who we are until we put it into words. You are a fabulous writer. You took me right into your heart and soul...your fear and struggles. You will help and inspire so many people. Beautiful! Linda Evans, star of Dynasty and author of Recipe for Life Aging in High Heels should be read by women from their twenties and beyond. It's got all the tools that women need to achieve longer, sexier, and more passionate lives! Judy Foreman, journalist Beverlye Hyman Fead is an 81-year-old force of nature whose book is brimming with inspiration and good advice on how to face aging well. She has taught scores of individuals to be proactive in their health care, as she herself has been in her own fight against cancer. Her book is a lesson for the ages, for all of us who are fortunate enough to be aging. Susan Peschin, President and CEO, Alliance for Aging Research No matter how old we are, you make it cool to get even older! Your attitude and observations in life, with your particular perspective, are so darned charming! You are one of the special ones who choose to be wide awake... and it's beautiful! Rachel McLish, former Ms. Olympia and author of Flex Appeal and Perfect Parts Amen to aging with fervor. Here's to all the women of a certain age in the world who aren't famous or even well known who are doing what they have always done, no matter their age. I love how you say, "This is eighty today." Perie Longo PhD, poet, therapist, and author of Baggage Claim Yours is an amazing story, full of humility and spunk and old Los Angeles history-you bring a forgotten Beverly Hills alive-you bring communities of women into focus-you do so much and you do it with the nuance that makes you the woman everyone wants to know, befriend, marry, be their mother, grandmother, put her art in their rooms. Alice Randall, songwriter and author of Soul Food Love and The Wind Done Gone

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