In her practice as a licensed therapist, Sarah Brokaw has developed a specialty: pointing out how women sail beautifully into their most productive and satisfying years.For years she has run a six-week workshop series in which women of diverse backgrounds meet, share, and support each other in achieving professional and personal goals. She now also facilitates discussion groups on the topic all across the country--from Provo, Utah, to Oxford, Mississippi, from Livingston, Montana, to Washington, D.C. Through these groups and discussions, Brokaw has identified five Sustaining Core Values held by those women who navigate midlife most smoothly. In Forty-tude, she shows how any woman can foster these qualities in herself: - Grace arises when a woman lives with integrity, capitalizing on her own strengths while admiring the strengths of others without jealousy;- Connectedness derives from a woman's satisfaction with the connections she has with others;- Accomplishment--the sense of it--is necessary in today's world, when women are expected to cram forty-eight hours of living into every twenty-four-hour day;- Adventure requires a willingness to seek experiences or challenges outside the normal comfort zone;- Spirituality reflects the crafting of a personal approach to religion, and an understanding that life is more than just the day-to-day details.