Charlotte Bauer describes her journey through a mid-life existential crisis when it seemed like her entire world changed overnight. She offers women in their older years hope and friendly guidance through the challenges of getting older.

While age is just a number, turning 50 can feel like a significant turning point for women.

Physical, mental, and emotional changes make the 50s a difficult decade, and many women feel blindsided by the challenges.

Charlotte Bauer is an award-winning journalist and Nieman Fellow at Harvard University.

In How to Get Over Being Young: a Rough Guide to Midlife, Bauer offers women hope and humor as they navigate their 50s.

Bauer shares her personal midlife crisis story, as well as wisdom she learned from family members and medical professionals.