FREE MIDLIFE & BEYOND SEMINAR SERIES
SECOND OF FIVE-PART SERIES

The Midwest Buddhist Temple is sponsoring a "Midlife and Beyond Seminar Series" free and open to the public which will be presented by The Family Institute at Northwestern University and the Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer’s Disease Center at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. The series of five seminars will be held at the Midwest Buddhist Temple, 435 W. Menomonee St. in historic Old Town. The dates, times and titles of the remaining four seminars are:

Wednesday, May 3, 2006, 7 to 8:30 p.m. – "The Pickle in the Sandwich: Feeling Squeezed at Midlife" presented by Karen Krefman, LMFT, and Michele Wolff, MSMFT

Wednesday, June 7, 2006, noon to 1:30 p.m. – "Memory and Aging: The Long and Short of It" presented by Sandra Weintraub, PhD

Wednesday, July 12, 2006, 7 to 8:30 p.m. – "Living After Loss of Your Parent" presented by Michele Wolff, MSMFT

Thursday, Aug. 3, 2006, noon to 1:30 p.m. – "Rethinking Retirement: Renewing a Sense of Balance and Purpose in Your Relationships and Your Life" presented by Karen Krefman, LMFT, and Michele Wolff, MSMFT

The second of the five-part series, titled "The Pickle in the Sandwich: Feeling Squeezed at Midlife," will be held on Wednesday, May 3, 2006, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. and will be presented by Karen Krefman, LMFT, and Michele Wolff, MSMFT.

Do you often feel "squeezed" – for time, for space for money? Do you struggle to juggle conflicting life demands and competing needs to your family, friends or career? You are not alone. Midlife is a stage of life when men and women often feel "sandwiched." Between parenting demands, caregiving for aging parents, re-negotiating a changing marriage and a host of additional stressors, you may find yourself feeling stressed or lost.

This seminar, presented by The Family Institute at Northwestern University, will address the challenging topic of how to find balance at midlife. They will provide perspectives on the emotional, mental and physical impacts of feeling squeezed at midlife. They also will share practical "how-to" techniques to manage the multiple stressors in your life and to discover a new sense of clarity at midlife.

Although the Midlife & Beyond Seminar Series is free, it is requested that registration be made by calling the Midwest Buddhist Temple at 312-943-7801 to ensure proper amount of handouts will be available. For further information either visit the temple’s Web site, midwestbuddhisttemple.org or call the temple office at 312-943-7801.