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A reading/signing event with author Susan Avery Stewart, PhD

Winter’s Graces is filled with unexpected good news about growing older and highlights 11 qualities that ripen with age—including audacious authenticity, courageous ingenuity, necessary fierceness, self-transcending generosity, and a growing capacity to savor life and to ride its ups and downs with humor and grace.

Decades of research have established that the catastrophic conditions often associated with late life, such as severe dementia and debilitating frailty, are the exception, not the rule. Still, the mistaken idea that aging equals devastating decline persists, causing enormous, unnecessary suffering.

Weaving together recent research, ancient stories, elders’ experience, and insights from the social sciences and the world’s spiritual traditions, Dr. Susan Stewart presents a balanced and heartening view of aging and reveals the developmental trends, attitudes, and behaviors that help make the winter of life a richly rewarding season.

Susan Stewart, PhD, is an emerita professor of psychology, a retired psychotherapist, and a Bay Area native who lives in Petaluma. She is blessed with two grown sons and four grandchildren, and has been part of a women’s group that has been meeting since 1970. Susan is also a singer and a cellist and loves to dance.

Winter’s Graces is available in bookstores and through your public library.