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QUARTERLIFE
The Timeless Pursuit of Stability and Meaning
Popular psychotherapist Satya Doyle Byock, devoted to counseling young adults in their twenties and thirties, identifies the unique difficulties of this stage of life and offers a roadmap toward joy, meaning, and clarity.
QUARTERLIFE explores issues that occur during a turbulent phase in life, when the roadmap to success and happiness seemingly abruptly ends and the path leads to security and fulfilled adulthood feels out of reach and solutions being offered frequently result in even more chaos and stress. Here, Byock offers people in this stage of life (she calls Quarterlifers) the tools to listen to what they know instinctually and to balance their need for stability with their quest for meaning.
What's wrong with me? I feel so stuck. Is this all there is? Satya Doyle Byock hears these refrains regularly in her psychotherapy practice, Quarterlife Counseling, where she works exclusively with individuals between the ages of eighteen to thirty-five. She understands their frustration. Some clients have done "everything right" - earn a degree, get a job, meet a partner, settle down. Yet, even after checking the boxes, many are left unfulfilled, unclear, unhappy and don't know how to approach what to do next and others are uninterested in following this prescribed path, but feel unmoored as a result.
And while society is quick to label these emotions as traits of generations like Millennials or Gen Z, or offer diagnoses and prescriptions to alleviate these feelings, Byock approaches these issues differently. She believes these struggles are a natural part of the developmental journey of Quarterlife, a distinct stage of life, like adolescence or midlife, that every person goes through, but has been virtually ignored by popular culture and psychology.
In QUARTERLIFE, Byock utilizes her twenty years of experience to help Quarterlifers and those who love them better understand this unique phase of life. Using personal storytelling, mythology, pop culture, literature, and history, with references ranging from Rilke to Harry Potter, the author introduces us to the two primary types of Quarterlifers, as well as the four stages of the Quarterlife development, providing context and practices to help orient readers along their own journeys. She employs composite case studies, inspired by her clients to illustrate the Quarterlife journey, and offers hands-on tools and practices throughout the book to help readers find themselves within this developmental stage and implement her lessons.
Satya Doyle Byock MA, LPC is the owner and founder of Quarter-Life Counseling and a psychotherapist in private practice in Portland, Oregon. She teaches and writes on topics related to coming of age and Jungian psychology. Her writing has appeared in Psychological Perspectives, The Hairpin, Utne Reader, and elsewhere, including Goop, where her well-received essay that is the root of this new book "Why Millennials Can't Just 'Grow Up'" was published in 2016. Her essay "Gone Astray" received a notable mention in The Best American Essays.
What's wrong with me? I feel so stuck. Is this all there is? Satya Doyle Byock hears these refrains regularly in her psychotherapy practice, Quarterlife Counseling, where she works exclusively with individuals between the ages of eighteen to thirty-five. She understands their frustration. Some clients have done "everything right" - earn a degree, get a job, meet a partner, settle down. Yet, even after checking the boxes, many are left unfulfilled, unclear, unhappy and don't know how to approach what to do next and others are uninterested in following this prescribed path, but feel unmoored as a result.
And while society is quick to label these emotions as traits of generations like Millennials or Gen Z, or offer diagnoses and prescriptions to alleviate these feelings, Byock approaches these issues differently. She believes these struggles are a natural part of the developmental journey of Quarterlife, a distinct stage of life, like adolescence or midlife, that every person goes through, but has been virtually ignored by popular culture and psychology.
In QUARTERLIFE, Byock utilizes her twenty years of experience to help Quarterlifers and those who love them better understand this unique phase of life. Using personal storytelling, mythology, pop culture, literature, and history, with references ranging from Rilke to Harry Potter, the author introduces us to the two primary types of Quarterlifers, as well as the four stages of the Quarterlife development, providing context and practices to help orient readers along their own journeys. She employs composite case studies, inspired by her clients to illustrate the Quarterlife journey, and offers hands-on tools and practices throughout the book to help readers find themselves within this developmental stage and implement her lessons.
Satya Doyle Byock MA, LPC is the owner and founder of Quarter-Life Counseling and a psychotherapist in private practice in Portland, Oregon. She teaches and writes on topics related to coming of age and Jungian psychology. Her writing has appeared in Psychological Perspectives, The Hairpin, Utne Reader, and elsewhere, including Goop, where her well-received essay that is the root of this new book "Why Millennials Can't Just 'Grow Up'" was published in 2016. Her essay "Gone Astray" received a notable mention in The Best American Essays.
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