The feeling of invisibility in midlife: With best-selling author Jane Tara
This week Bec chats to Jane Tara, the author of 'Tilda is Visible', one of the hottest bestsellers on the women’s fiction list right now. 'Tilda is Visible' is a very relatable story for women in modern midlife. It’s about a woman in her 50s who wakes up one morning and her little finger and her ear are missing. She’s diagnosed with invisibility by her doctor. This book tackles a time of life that isn’t spoken about very often. We don’t talk enough about the feelings of invisibility in midlife. • Feeling invisible at home, in the workplace and to ourselves in midlife. Learning to see ourselves more clearly and through kind eyes. Learning to know yourself more deeply in midlife. • The re-identification or process of finding oneself that many people go through in midlife once their kids form their own identities. • The book builds in the lessons from the study of neuroplasticity – how you talk to yourself and how you adapt your brain’s neural signals. • How do we see ourselves? The voices in our head and how they shape our self-beliefs, and how that voice works. • Neuroplasticity gives us the ability to reprogram our brain. Reprogramming your inner thoughts and program to be kinder to ourselves. • Jane shares that she was misdiagnosed with a degenerative eye condition. She was told she was going blind, and this created the foundation for Tilda, the lead character in the book. This got her considering the importance of seeing the world, and most importantly seeing herself growing old. • The benefits of meditation through Tilda’s eyes, considering how meditation can play a role in adjusting the way we react. How Jane uses meditation in real life and how she practices. • Getting to know our own personal programs, starting to be more kind to ourselves.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.