Beth Witrogen is a journalist, author, speaker, and consultant on spirituality and aging, caregiving, and midlife renewal. Her expertise has grown from personal experience caring for parents and spouse, as well as nearly 20 years of professional commitment. She has transformed these journeys of loss into a hearty and joyful sense of passion and aliveness at midlife.
Beth's commitment to public service has ranged from writing and producing an award-winning, Pulitzer-nominated newspaper series, The Caregivers (San Francisco Examiner, 1995), to writing Caregiving: The Spiritual Journey of Love, Loss, and Renewal (Wiley, 1999), also nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. These events launched a nationwide speaking career that has included talks before Congress as well as aging, religious, legislative, and wellness groups. Her focus is now on wellness and living fully at midlife; to that end she has taken up serious rock climbing.
Beth's articles on elder care, spirituality, and health have been published in Good Housekeeping, Health, SELF, Family Circle, Cooking Light, Caring, The Wall Street Journal, Aging Today, and online at Consumer Health Interactive, WebMD, and ThirdAge, among others. She developed the first online caregiving support groups (AARP, ThirdAge), taught a course she developed for Barnes & Noble University Online, and has appeared in four PBS specials on caregiving. She was a relationship and elder care blogger for SmartNow.com and now blogs for Libido for Life, a celebration of sexuality and health at midlife.
Beth has been interviewed by the Los Angeles Times, CNN, Miami Herald, Christian Science Monitor, Prevention, Money, and USA Today, as well as HealthDay and Caring.com, and has appeared on The Today Show, Wisdom Radio, NPR, and PBS specials. She is the editor of Rodale Press' And Thou Shalt Honor (2002), and continues to expand her range of expertise into wellness, renewal, and spirituality at midlife.
She is currently working on a new book about women's sensuality and spirituality; for her photography career, please visit her companion portfolio site at www.witrogenphoto.com.