Writing
Books:
A Good Life: Aging Well, Living Fully, & Finding Meaning in Your Later Years
Inclusive, compassionate, and grounded in evidence-based science, A Good Life will help you face aging not with fear, but with curiosity and courage.
Aging isn’t just a physical process; it’s a rewarding emotional and psychological journey. While growing older brings many challenges―the loss of loved ones, changes in health, shifting family roles, and confronting ageism and mortality―it also brings profound opportunities for personal growth. This book will show you how to cultivate emotional longevity: the ability to stay resilient, connected, and fulfilled throughout your later years.
In A Good Life, Katherine King, a clinical psychologist specializing in aging and emotional well-being, offers an essential guide grounded in the science of healthy aging to help you thrive at any stage of the journey. Drawing on years of clinical practice and research, King helps you prepare for the psychological realities of aging, so you can embrace this phase of life as one of meaning, growth, and vitality.
The book explores four essential dimensions of healthy aging:
- Mind: Exploring and upgrading your outlook on aging
- Heart: Navigating love, loss, and our changing social world
- Health: Addressing physical and practical realities of aging
- Meaning: Revealing what really matters
Whether you’re approaching midlife, caring for aging loved ones, or navigating your own later years, this book offers the emotional toolkit to live well for as long as you live.
- Bronze Medalist - 2024 Living Now Book Awards (Category: Relaxation/Mindfulness)
- Finalist - 2024 National Indie Excellence Awards (Category: Well-Being)
Burnout. Compassion fatigue. Self-care. Work/life balance. In the midst of all these buzzwords, there are real human beings – nurses, doctors, first responders, social workers, teachers, therapists – all trying to navigate the perils and promise of the helping professions.
Working as a helper asks a lot of us personally, but we rarely get the training we need to handle the complex challenges we face – let alone unlock the deep personal growth potential available in our work. With compassion, wit, and wisdom, The Well Helper guides you to explore your motivations for becoming a helper, the potential obstacles that could block you from deeper fulfillment, and the essential self-knowledge you need to forge your own path forward.
Through a series of nine pillars, you will learn strategies for self-empowerment, how to cultivate mindful awareness, and methods for expanding your compassion for self and others. You’ll discover how to regulate your stress response and cope better with multiple kinds of trauma.
Through step-by-step instructions and a series of reflection questions, you’ll also reveal the unconscious assumptions that might be holding you back and practical skills to help you thrive in work and life.
Other Writing:
Self-Compassion: Developing the Reflex of Care
Discover a healing antidote to the harsh criticism we inflict on ourselves.
At its most simple, self-compassion is about treating oneself with kindness in the face of life's inevitable challenges. This may sound simple, but it is definitely not easy. The unfortunate first instinct many of us have when we encounter difficulties is to criticize ourselves in some way. We might tell ourselves to “suck it up,” “get over it,” or try to convince ourselves “it’s no big deal.” We might blame ourselves for whatever happened or get upset with ourselves for having whatever emotions we have... More
Understanding the Eight Worldly Concerns
Looking for the root causes of suffering? Understanding these eight preoccupations will reveal motives and assumptions we often ignore.
In Buddhist philosophy, a lot of attention is paid to suffering and the causes of suffering. For this reason, there is significant interest in Buddhist ideas among many modern psychologists. One Buddhist framework to explain the causes of human suffering is called the Eight Worldly Concerns, or alternately, the eight worldly dharmas or preoccupations... More
What is Geropsychology?
You may not have heard of it, but you or someone you love just might need it.
The world of psychology has a range of specialties. Some psychologists focus on helping people with a specific disorder, offering a certain kind of treatment, or serving particular groups such as veterans. While many have heard of child psychologists, few are aware that there is another age-related niche within the field. Geropsychology is a specialty that focuses on understanding, treating, and improving the mental health of older adults... More
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