Day 283... Therapy

I am not as confident that counseling is going to help me navigate through this "endolescence."  I'm trying it and five visits in (including 2 different [of which I fit into neither] "group" sessions -- anyone familiar with the DBT method ? -- apparently the newest and best for some) and I am still looking for support.  The 3 individual sessions were easy for both me and the therapist since I just spill everything from the moment the clock starts til I write the check.  I'm really just thinking out loud and testing the sense of what my thoughts are.

But -- the group sessions did show me something.  More of a "been there, done that".  But not in a bad way.  I listened to some 40-something-year-olds talk about conflicts with kids, husbands, and mothers (why are fathers so seldom mentioned?).  I tried to keep up with the DBT exercise application of emotional vs. practical vs. "right" or some kind of "safe" mind (in my opinion somewhat of a repackaging of things I've already learned).   What really struck me was I am past that now and eager to get on to something else that is relevant to me!  I didn't feel "old" as much as I felt experienced.  And, I am delighted to say experience, especially successful experience, is not a bad thing at all.

With that said and knowing that there are a bazillion of us babyboomers entering this particular passage of life, why isn't there more support out there?  I have looked and looked and so far besides ads for Spanx and Not Your Daughters Jeans have found nothing.  There are a smattering of other babyboomers who started blogs and then abandoned them (can't seem to find any that are in the present and all are dated earlier than 2009).  And there are some sites on "how to dress over 50 or over 60" (really dowdy too).  More magazine is a big disappointment (it's really geared towards the over 40 to early 50 from what I see), AARP is soooooo depressing and really is what it is - a lobby, albeit a powerful lobby for the older aging.

I actually spent almost 5 years at Chico's dressing women in bright colors, stand-up collars and rolled up sleeves.  That experience, although promising in the beginning, confirmed my thoughts that no one (helloooooo retailers???)  is really marketing to my age group for the long term.  We should have our own demographic!  The App Advanced Style was interesting for a while.  I love seeing older women with real style.  Actually I don't mind envisioning myself wearing red converse high-tops and large round rimmed glasses when and if I make it to eighty something. However some of his chosen subjects look more like (forgive me) drag queens rather than women embracing their age with enthusiasm and panache.  I have a Pinterest board dedicated to gray haired beauties and am always looking and collecting pins of  clothes and accessories for the fashion I am comfortable in with my new found endolescent style.   

There is nothing else.  Is there?  No font of information that tells me or shares with me or refers me to anything really relevant to this rather nebulous age of what --- 55 to 65 --- before walkers but well after 40!