Step Into Your Purpose

The Midlife Woman's Guide To Awakening Your Authentic Self and Creating a Life of Meaning

9798950943003

176 pages

Twin Feather Publishing

Paperback / softback $21.99

Overview

It arrives on Sunday afternoon—a gray weight that settles somewhere behind your sternum while you fold laundry or sit with a coffee gone cold. From the outside, your life looks complete: the career, the credentials, the resume your younger self would be proud of. From the inside, it feels like a life assembled for someone you used to be. And a quiet question keeps finding you: Is this all there is?

Most advice about reinvention tells you to start over. Quit. Leave. Burn it down.

Step Into Your Purpose offers another way.

At forty, psychotherapist Myrthia Moore was running a successful financial services company and dreading every Sunday. An unexpected conversation reopened a door she had closed at eighteen, leading her to retrain as a marriage and family therapist. In the years since, she has helped countless women navigate the same questions of identity, purpose, and what comes next.

In this warm and practical book, Moore helps you recognize the False Self you built to succeed—the version shaped by expectations, approval, and what the world needed you to be—and reconnect with your Authentic Self underneath it.

Step by step, you’ll learn to:

Recognize the false self you built to survive
Uncover your core values and strengths
Name the purpose calling you forward
Rebuild from the inside while keeping what’s worth keeping

Through practical exercises and journal entries that let you watch one woman’s transformation unfold, you’ll learn to quiet the inner critic, rewrite the beliefs that have kept you small, and move toward a life that feels genuinely your own—without dismantling everything you have built.

The self you are searching for has not gone anywhere. She has only been covered.

This book is how you find her. It is not too late. You are exactly on time.

Author Bio

Myrthia Moore, MsEd, MFT, is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist — and she came to that title the long way, which is precisely the point of this book. She studied economics at Harvard University. It was a good degree, an impressive one, and it led exactly where a degree like that is supposed to lead. By age forty, she was running a successful financial services company: the income, the respected practice, the beautiful office — and a dread that arrived every Sunday afternoon and would not lift. Then one unexpected remark from a client reopened a door she had quietly closed at eighteen. She enrolled at the University of Miami and earned her graduate degree in Marriage and Family Therapy while keeping her company running — building the bridge she now teaches other women to build. The Sunday dread never came back. In the years since, she has guided many accomplished women through the same passage: out from behind the False Self they built to survive, and into lives that finally fit. Stepping Into Your Purpose is the map she made of that journey — lived first, practiced daily, and offered here in the voice she uses with the women in her office: warm, direct, and certain of one thing above all, that the self you are searching for has not gone anywhere. She maintains a private practice in Coral Gables, Florida, where she lives. Her own life remains her favorite evidence that it is never too late — and that you are, in fact, exactly on time.