<b><em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/098245550X?tag=wwwvibrantnat-20&amp;camp=14573&amp;creative=327641&amp;linkCode=as1&amp;creativeASIN=098245550X" target="_blank">The Year I Saved My (downsized) Soul: A Boomer Woman&rsquo;s Search for Meaning&hellip;and a Job</a>,</em></b> is a memoir written by veteran marketing executive, Boomer expert and author <a href="http://www.vibrantnation.com/members/862-carol-orsborn---vn-strategist/public"><strong>Carol Orsborn, Ph.D.</strong></a><br /> <br /> Orsborn began keeping a daily journal of her tumultuous journey through recessionary times while finding herself downsized from a corporate job in marketing.<br /> <br /> Struggling to make sense of both personal and societal tribulation, she found herself testing the spiritual principles she&rsquo;d been sharing in her previous 15 books.<br /> <br /> While searching for meaning&hellip;and a job, Orsborn ultimately shows the way to embracing both the despair and delight of what it means to be fully alive. The book has a happy ending, with Orsborn landing a job in the social networking world.<br /> <br /> &quot;Reinventing myself in the public eye as chief blogger for <a href="http://www.vibrantnation.com" target="_blank">a website dedicated to women 50+</a>, I soon realized that the feelings of vulnerability and self-doubt I was experiencing were not signs of individual failure but shared by even the most accomplished women of my generation,&quot; says Orsborn, who has published with Three Rivers Press/Random House, William Morrow and Avon Books, among others, and who now serves as senior strategist with <a href="http://www.vibrantnation.com" target="_blank"><strong>VibrantNation.com</strong></a>.<br /> <br /> Vibrant Nation founder and CEO Stephen Reily chose Orsborn's latest book to launch VN books because &quot;Carol&rsquo;s voice emerges organically from the mature world of social networking, embodying both the anti-authoritarian and irrepressible trajectory of her remarkable generation of women.&quot;<br />