The Quarter-Life Crisis : The Phenomena Affecting Young Women Today Facing the Challenges and Successfully Navigating the Chaotic Twenty-Something Years
P.R. Contact Monique Muhlenkamp

By age 25, Christine Hassler was one of the youngest executives in Hollywood’s television industry and one of its rising stars — and she hated what she was doing. She quit her job quite suddenly to pursue her passion only to realize that her passion wasn’t holding her interest either. Well-educated and one that seemed to have it all, she sank into a mire of depression fueled by unrealized dreams, a failed relationship, and rising debt.

Christine is not alone. An entire generation of today’s young women are discovering they’re unhappy trying to fit into a life that others have planned for them, into a life that offers rank, prestige, and societal approval, but little true fulfillment. Others aren’t sure if what they’ve been striving for up to that point — career, a relationship, motherhood, or some other goal — is what they really wanted after all. Enter the quarter-life crisis.

The generation profiled in Hassler’s upcoming book 20 Something, 20 Everything: A Young Woman’s Guide to Balance and Direction during Her Quarter-Life Crisis is unique in that they are faced with issues that are far different from those their mothers faced. They are the first generation to be raised by single parents, feminists, and hippies; they made eating disorders an epidemic; many started using birth control at an early age; most have had more opportunities and education than earlier generations of women. So why the problems? More importantly what are the solutions for getting past the quarter-life crisis?

Based on Hassler’s first hand experience and interviews with hundreds of women who are going through the same difficulties, she not only shares the stories, conundrums, tears, and laughter, she provides women with the tools they need for building a life filled with more contentment, balance, and direction unique to their beliefs and life situations. Practical, hands-on exercises and questions enable the woman of today to begin to take steps to chart a new course for her own life.

20 SOMETHING 20 EVERYTHING: By Christine Hassler
May 2005 • Personal Growth • Trade Paper
Price: $14.95 • ISBN 1-57731-476-X • 256 Pages

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