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Finding Joy in the Empty Nest

Discover Purpose and Passion in the Next Phase of Life
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Finding Joy in the Empty Nest by Jim Burns, Ph.D, provides guidance for parents transitioning to life after their children have left home. With insights rooted in religion and spirituality, the author offers strategies to rediscover purpose, strengthen relationships, and embrace this new chapter with joy and fulfilment.
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This book may appeal to you if you're navigating the transition to an empty nest and seeking ways to embrace this new phase with positivity and purpose. With insights grounded in faith and spirituality, it offers guidance and encouragement to help you rediscover joy and meaning once your children have left home.

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If you're one of the millions of adults struggling with the grief and complex considerations of living in an empty nest, author and motivational speaker Jim Burns's much-anticipated Finding Joy in the Empty Nest will remind you that--with some practical guidance--your second half could very well become your best half.

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When the kids are gone, you can discover a richer, deeper, and more fulfilling life than you ever imagined!

Whether you've been looking forward to it or dreading it, the experience of coming home to an empty nest brings with it a well of emotions, realizations, and one gigantic, all-consuming thought: Now what? In Finding Joy in the Empty Nest, Jim Burns combines his personal experiences with his expertise as a family educator to help you navigate your new life as an empty nester and find joy in this new season of life.

Rather than offering shallow suggestions of hobbies you should take up, Burns encourages you to actively pursue a fresh start, reinvent yourself, and thrive. Backed by extensive research and filled with interviews with fellow empty nesters, this book equips you with practical advice and timeless principles, teaching you how to:

  • Change the relationship you once had with your children for the better
  • Face big issuesβ€”including aging parents, finances, and kids returning homeβ€”with confidence
  • Rekindle your fire and purpose to live with passion day by day

Amid Burns' wealth of know-how, you'll uncover what may be the most important takeaway of all: the best is yet to come.

Praise for Finding Joy in the Empty Nest:

"Jim Burns is smart, witty, grounded, and immeasurably practical. Whether you're getting close to the second half of marriage or are in the thick of it, you won't want to miss out on this fantastic book."

--Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott, bestselling authors of Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780310362623

Publisher: Zondervan

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 23 June 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Zondervan

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 12.0mm

Width: 139.0mm

Height: 213.0mm

Weight: 149g

Pages: 192

About the Author

Jim Burns is the president of HomeWord and the Executive Director of the HomeWord Center for Youth and Family at Azusa Pacific University. Jim speaks to thousands of people around the world each year. He has close to two million resources in print in twenty languages. Some of his most popular books are Confident Parenting, The Purity Code, Creating an Intimate Marriage, and Closer. Jim and his wife, Cathy, live in Southern California and have three grown daughters, two sons-in-law, and two grandchildren.

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