{"id":5051,"date":"2025-10-07T01:42:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T23:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/midlifehours.com\/?p=5051"},"modified":"2025-10-07T02:18:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T00:18:14","slug":"when-the-heart-waits-sue-monk-kidd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midlifehours.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/07\/when-the-heart-waits-sue-monk-kidd\/","title":{"rendered":"When the Heart Waits \u2014 Sue Monk Kidd"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Book Review<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"book-review\">Life&#8217;s waiting periods often feel uncomfortable, yet they can reveal profound insight and growth.\u00a0 In <em>When the Heart Waits<\/em>, Sue Monk Kidd invites readers to embrace stillness, reflection, and patience as pathways to self-understanding and spiritual development. Her guidance is especially resonant for those navigating midlife transitions, offering tools to transform uncertainty into integration, healing, and authentic self-discovery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kidd emphasizes that waiting \u2014 whether for clarity, transformation, or the next stage of life \u2014 requires courage, surrender, and openness to the unfolding of one\u2019s unique life path. It can be helpful if you&#8217;re wrestling with the tension between past patterns, fractured self-concepts and the hidden, intrinsic self.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Reflection and Application<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Readers are encouraged to consider: How might stillness reveal what your soul has been trying to communicate? Where are you rushing past lessons that could deepen insight and growth? How can you honor your own timing, rather than forcing resolutions prematurely? Kidd\u2019s stories and reflections offer both inspiration and practical guidance for cultivating patience, self-compassion, and receptivity to life\u2019s unfolding rhythms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Bridging to <em>The Midlife Homecoming<\/em> Series<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>For those inspired by Kidd\u2019s exploration of patience, reflection, and inner listening, the <a href=\"https:\/\/glynisklein.substack.com\/p\/when-a-visit-home-leads-to-a-deeper?r=al0ft\"><em>Midlife Homecoming<\/em> series<\/a> provides a roadmap for navigating midlife transitions with intention and grace. Embrace the sacred pauses of midlife with intention. The <em>Midlife Homecoming<\/em> series provides eight reflective posts to help you transform waiting, uncertainty, and reflection into meaningful growth and authentic self-integration. Across eight posts, the series guides readers in:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Reconnecting with younger selves and untended wounds<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Integrating past experiences into a cohesive, authentic identity<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Aligning creative passions, work, and relationships with evolving values<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cultivating resilience, grounding, and inner stability amid change<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The series transforms midlife restlessness or uncertainty into a conscious, soul-guided journey, helping readers sit with the \u201cno longer \/ not yet\u201d moments that Kidd highlights, and emerge with a deeper sense of wholeness, integration, and self-directed purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/glynisklein.substack.com\/p\/when-a-visit-home-leads-to-a-deeper?r=al0ft\">Start reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/midlifehours.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Carousel-cover-819x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5022\" srcset=\"https:\/\/midlifehours.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Carousel-cover-819x1024.png 819w, https:\/\/midlifehours.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Carousel-cover-240x300.png 240w, https:\/\/midlifehours.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Carousel-cover-768x960.png 768w, https:\/\/midlifehours.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Carousel-cover.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life often calls for patience in the face of uncertainty.\u00a0 In When the Heart Waits, Sue Monk Kidd invites readers to lean into life\u2019s waiting periods as sacred opportunities for reflection, self-discovery, and spiritual growth \u2014 lessons especially relevant for those navigating midlife transitions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,67,30],"tags":[52,28,51,38,26,27],"class_list":["post-5051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-midlife","category-personal-development","category-spiritual-growth","tag-generativity","tag-introspection","tag-life-cycle-stage","tag-mindfulness","tag-personal-development","tag-self-growth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifehours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifehours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifehours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifehours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifehours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5051"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/midlifehours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5065,"href":"https:\/\/midlifehours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051\/revisions\/5065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midlifehours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifehours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midlifehours.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}