Catching Your Breath

A Meditative Guide to Midlife Soul-Shifting

Published by BenBella Books
Distributed by Simon & Schuster
LIST PRICE $19.95

About The Book

From a mindfulness expert and cofounder of the Breethe app, this guide to life’s gut punches offers grounded, relatable advice for getting back on your feet and living life on your own terms in middle age.

Divorce after decades. An unexpected diagnosis. Financial whiplash you could never have predicted. Unplanned caregiving, grieving, or other family circumstances that catch you completely unprepared.

When midlife plot twists hit without warning, this thoughtful, compassionate guide helps you catch your breath long enough to plan your next chapter with intention. Drawing on her own experiences, meditation teacher Lynne Goldberg shares down-to-earth advice and mindfulness practices to help you navigate change and enjoy your second act.

Catching Your Breath meets you in your moment with spiritually grounded, emotionally fluent tools for realigning with your reality, so you can:
  • Heal from and adapt to midlifetransitions like divorce, illness, menopause, empty nesting, career upheaval, and financial uncertainty
  • Practice learned choicefulness—so you can react with intention rather than habit or fear
  • Let go of your shoulda woulda couldas and embrace the life you’re currently living
  • Reclaim your agency, define your boundaries, and find pleasure in midlife without apology
  • Reconnect with your why and redesign your life for more meaning, joy, and authenticity

You're never too old, and it’s never too late. For anyone ready to turn midlife into possibility, Catching Your Breath offers permission to stop surviving and start living your life in full color.

About The Author

Lynne Goldberg is a meditation teacher, author, speaker and cofounder of the Breethe meditation app. Breathe is one of the most widely-used mindfulness platforms in the world, supporting more than 20 million people across 90 countries. Named one of the top meditation teachers in North America by Forbes, her work has been featured by TIME, the Associated Press, NPR, People, Cosmopolitan, The Cut, ABC, NBC, and more. InStyle magazine described Breethe as “so simple even my ten-year-old can do it,” reflecting Lynne’s warm, relatable style—the kind of teaching that feels less like instruction and more like getting a hug when you need it most.

Lynne’s approach is shaped by both spiritual practice and real life. She has experienced the death of her two-day-old twin daughters, the loss of her 54-year-old mother to cancer, divorce after decades, her own cancer diagnosis, empty nesting, and financial upheaval. These pivotal turning points brought her to meditation when the identity she held onto so tightly dissolved. With humor, honesty, and a grounded, wry voice, Lynne helps others learn to practice choicefulness, cultivate compassion, and make soul-aligned decisions in the face of change.

Product Details

  • Publisher: BenBella Books (January 19, 2027)
  • Length: 264 pages
  • ISBN13: 9798902680345

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