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A book by Lynne Goldberg · Out 19 January 2027
Catching Your Breath
A Meditative Guide to Midlife Soul-Shifting
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You had a plan. Life had other ideas.
Divorce after decades. An unexpected diagnosis. An empty nest. Financial whiplash. Suddenly, you’re figuring out a life you hadn’t exactly signed up for.
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From mindfulness expert and Breethe cofounder Lynne Goldberg, Catching Your Breath offers grounded, relatable advice for navigating life’s gut punches and living life on your own terms in middle age.
From embarrassing dating stories to a full-blown kundalini awakening, Lynne brings humor, honesty, and hard-earned perspective to the realities of starting over.
Combining research, personal stories, and practical guidance, this meditative guide offers tips, tools, and mindfulness exercises to help you understand what you’re feeling, navigate change, and approach your next chapter with intention.
Even if you’ve never meditated before, you’ll find accessible ways to catch your breath and choose what comes next. You can begin in the middle of your very real, occasionally messy life.
Your next chapter has room for you.
Midlife can bring changes to your relationships, your body, your work, and your sense of who you are. Catching Your Breath gives you space to explore those changes, including the questions you may have been too busy taking care of everyone else to ask.
Through research-informed insights, reflection prompts, and practices drawn from Lynne’s 20 years of teaching, you’ll learn to:
Make room for your feelings.
Give grief, anger, fear, and uncertainty some breathing room without rushing yourself through them.
Adapt to your changing reality.
Explore what you need now as you navigate divorce, illness, menopause, empty nesting, career upheaval, or financial uncertainty.
Reconnect with meaning and possibility.
Let your experiences inform what matters to you and how you want to live.
Recognize your shared humanity.
Find connection in the understanding that change, loss, and the wish to feel loved and secure are experiences we share.
Practice learned choicefulness.
Create a pause between your automatic reaction and the response you choose.
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Along the way, you’ll discover practical ways to release your shoulda woulda couldas, define your boundaries, reclaim pleasure, and make choices that reflect who you are today.
You’re never too old, and it’s never too late. There is still room for connection, adventure, joy, and a few plot twists you actually welcome.
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Sleep is the aspirin. Start your transformation tonight.
I created the 7-Day Sleep Series to support you while you wait for the book. In the very first video, I explain why I call sleep the aspirin, and why real transformation can’t take root in a tired body. Start there, and let the rest follow.
Why I wrote the book
I wrote Catching Your Breath to help people pause when life knocks the wind out of them, find their footing, and choose what comes next. The sleep series is where it begins.
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Midlife has a way of dismantling the stories we once lived by. In Catching Your Breath, Lynne Goldberg blends mindfulness, humor, and hard-earned wisdom into a compassionate guide for anyone facing divorce, loss, illness, uncertainty, or reinvention.
Lynne Goldberg's book illustrates the power of love to heal . . . Using sexual energy with awareness, sensitivity, and humor, she helps us throw off the shackles of our limiting beliefs and habits so we can experience bliss.
About the author
I’m Lynne. I’ve started over a few times, occasionally with enthusiasm, often without being consulted.
Along the way, I’ve navigated divorce, cancer, and the deaths of people I love. Meditation has helped me catch my breath, find my footing, and stay open to what life still has to offer.
That’s what I love helping others discover, too.
I’m a meditation teacher, author of Catching Your Breath, creator of the upcoming Soul Edit app, and cofounder of Breethe, which has reached 20 million people. My work brings together research, practical tools, and a sense of humor to help you navigate change and choose what comes next.
A few things you might be wondering
Is Catching Your Breath suitable for meditation beginners?
Yes. If you’re exploring meditation books for beginners, Catching Your Breath introduces accessible mindfulness practices alongside research, personal stories, and practical guidance. You’ll find exercises you can bring into everyday life, with no previous meditation experience needed.
Who is this book for?
Catching Your Breath is for anyone navigating change and wondering what comes next. Readers looking for books about midlife for women will find candid reflections and practical tools addressing divorce, menopause, empty nesting, relationships, illness, grief, and starting over. Its guidance welcomes anyone facing a new chapter.
Can this book help during a midlife crisis?
If midlife has left you questioning your plans, your identity, or your direction, Catching Your Breath offers research-informed perspectives and practical ways to explore those questions. Meditation exercises, reflection prompts, and tools for learned choicefulness help you reconnect with what matters and consider your next steps.
What is choicefulness?
Learned choicefulness is the practice of recognizing the pause between what happens and how you respond. With awareness and practice, you can notice habitual reactions and choose a response that reflects your needs, values, and circumstances.
Catch your breath.
Choose what’s next.
A few questions before you begin
Wondering whether this book is for you? Here’s a little more about what you’ll find inside.
Who is Catching Your Breath for?
If you’re exploring books about midlife women, you may recognize yourself in these pages. Divorce, menopause, an empty nest, illness, grief, or a change in direction can leave you wondering what comes next. Catching Your Breath brings together research, personal stories, and practical tools to help you find your footing and explore new possibilities.
What if I’ve never meditated before?
Start with your seat and your feet. Notice the support beneath you, then feel the air as you breathe in and out. You can begin with a few minutes, right where you are.
If you’re looking for meditation books for beginners, Catching Your Breath offers accessible practices you can bring into everyday life. Experienced meditators will also find fresh perspectives, reflection prompts, and practical tools for bringing their practice into the changes and challenges of midlife.
What if my mind is busy or I struggle to stick with it?
You can meditate with a busy mind. Begin by noticing when your attention wanders and gently bringing it back. You can start with a few minutes. You can come back to it after forgetting for six months. You still get to begin again.
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- Paperback, 264 pages
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