According to author, Ronda Beaman, EdD and internationally recognized expert on the psychosocial dynamics of aging, "Youth is a gift, but growing young is an achievement."
Supported by a collection of studies, Dr. Beaman suggests that the science of neoteny (the retention of youthful traits into adulthood) lays the groundwork for anyone to be able to choose "youthening" over aging.
"You're Only Young Twice" is a highly informative and entertaining book with inventories and activites to help us reach the full promise of our longer lives. In addition to giving readers some structure for recording thoughts in a self-study chronicle, Dr. Beaman also privdes ten Do-Overs. Do-overs are activities designed to refresh your outlook, language, and drives in ways that will create new circumstances--new habits of mind and heart--that will produce a climate to nurture and re-engage our youthful traits.
The final chapter reminds readers that along with do-overs is a do-always and that is love. Readers are offered several ideas for working love back into their lives to help encourage and enliven the other traits they have started reawakening.
Paperback, 240 pages, published 2006 by VanderWyk and Burnham.
| "You're Only Young Twice privdes the wit and wisdom we have all been looking for in our quest for a long, more meaningful life. We are never too old to play, laugh, learn and love."
--Lili Fourneir, Host of PBS Quest Specials
"Dr. Beaman's book reminds us that it is our spirit, not our years, that moves us forward and earns us a priceless life."
--Catherine Ryan Hyde, author of Pay It Forward and numerous other books
"The author...wrote this book for the same reason you should read it. [S]he shares the research she discovered that proves the second half of life can be as exciting, as invigorating and even more meaninful than the first half...Even as I read it, I began to feel younger...I was beginnig to see new horizons, new potential to be young twice and to always stay young."
--Elinor Nuxoll, NW Senior and Boomer News, Oregon State
[You're Only Young Twice] is about systematically reawakening...youthful tendencies..The answer to staying young isn't in face lifts or rounds of golf, but in tapping resources that everyone has."
--Susan Felt, The Arizona Republic
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