The Passionate Life: Creating Vitality and Joy at Every Age is a guide for all who want to live a more vital, joyful life! After all, Passion, Joy, and Vitality are not just for the young! They are meant for the young at heart no matter what our age. In The Passionate Life: Creating Vitality and Joy at Any Age, with the Foreword by The Barefoot Doctor, Dr. Mara interweaves her twenty-six plus years of expertise as a psychologist, her own personal experience, and the wisdom of today’s thought leaders on physical, emotional, and spiritual health into these pages. Readers will gain valuable tips for creating a meaningful, vital, and joyful life–no matter what challenges they may face. The Passionate Life is a guidebook for the exciting trek we call life. Whether you are early in your journey, moving into a new chapter of life, looking to climb out of a rut, or finding your way again after being lost for years–this book is for you! Dr. Mara shares a wealth of knowledge to help us all feel vital and alive–physically, mentally, intellectually, and spiritually–well into our golden years. In this ever increasingly unhinged reality, in which all the familiar structures are morphing or coming off their moorings, it makes sense…[to] grab the adventure while you still can, and…have a total ball. In The Passionate Life, the good doctor encourages you in the softest, kindest, and wisest way to claim the ride and gain the full value of existence you were born to enjoy. I’m proud to be the one to leave you in her good hands now. Stephen Russell, The Barefoot Doctor Author of Barefoot Doctor’s Handbook for the Urban Warrior: Wayward Taoist Survival Technique and The Barefoot Doctor’s Guide to the Tao Here are what some of her readers are saying about The Passionate Life: I love good books, because they are born from real and personal stories. Where someone doesn’t tell me, they invite me. They show me ways to come alive and start living. Mara invites us to appreciate and grasp what is already within. And she’s not just a teacher; she’s a guide who walks with us. The book may be an invitation to women perhaps, but after reading the book, I can tell you I definitely want some of what she’s talking about: the permission to live out loud, in our power, in the light, every day. Count me in. It’s down-to-earth. Thank you, Mara. And I agree, the best is yet to come. Terry Hershey, inspirational speaker and author of fifteen books, including The Power of Pause: Becoming More by Doing Less Dr. Mara Karpel is firmly fixed in her zone of genius in this amazing book, which is the ultimate road map to energy, inspiration, and purposeful living. Dr. Karpel fearlessly proclaims: out with the old paradigms, in with new! Here is everything one needs to make the golden years truly and radiantly golden! Ana Brett and Ravi Singh Authors of The Kundalini Yoga Book: Life in the Vast Lane