The sixties often bring a renewed focus on what feels authentic, grounded, and internally aligned. The Sovereign Self by Stacey Dutton explores these themes through the lens of emotional mastery and personal sovereignty.The Sovereign Self invites readers into a deeper understanding of the inner shifts that accompany the sixties. Stacey Dutton reflects on how emotional patterns formed in earlier decades begin to surface, revealing opportunities for clarity and self-governance. She examines topics such as identity evolution, emotional curation, shifting relationships, boundaries, joy, the body’s changes, and the practice of stillness. The book offers guidance on transitioning from reaction to response, choosing presence over performance, and cultivating a grounded relationship with oneself. Dutton presents this decade as a period of refinement and self-return, where women can embrace emotional sovereignty with intention and depth.
You are not done. You are still becoming. Let this manifesto be your guide to a luminous, inner-driven life—filled with joy, purpose, self-love, and emotional mastery.
By the time we reach our sixties, we’ve lived a multitude of lives—witnessing history, heartbreak, and countless personal revolutions. We’ve been daughters, lovers, mothers, professionals, creators, and caretakers. Now, standing at the threshold of a new era, we are free from old expectations and ready to claim a life that is truly our own. Yet change can bring uncertainty.
If you’ve wondered what lies ahead or how to thrive in the years to come, Stacey Dutton’s The Sovereign Self is your essential companion. Discover how the mental, emotional, and physical shifts associated with aging can become sources of power, clarity, and freedom. With practical wisdom and heartfelt encouragement, this book will help you.
Enjoy an Excerpt:
THE MIND AS AN EMOTIONAL ATHLETE
Much like physical strength, emotional mastery requires active engagement. A woman does not wake up one morning emotionally agile, just as she does not develop high muscle tone overnight. Emotional engagement is a practice, like going to Pilates class or lifting weights a few times a week. And yet, many women enter their sixties believing that emotional maturity should be automatic, a natural byproduct of their age.
This is a fallacy. A woman who neglects her emotional strength and agility will find herself bound by old wounds, reactive tendencies, and outdated narratives.
But a woman who deliberately trains her mind—who practices stillness, discernment, and inquiry—will discover a different reality. She will no longer be pulled into every emotional undercurrent. She will not be at the mercy of her past. She will move through her days with a kind of cultivated stillness, unshaken by the temporary and attuned to what truly matters.
This is the foundation of everything that follows in her life.
About the Author: 
Stacey Dutton is an entertainment executive, creative producer, and emotional mastery advocate with more than three decades of experience across the music, television, and film industries. She was the original on-air host of TLC/Discovery’s Clean Sweep and later the casting director for the Emmy Award–winning Clean House on The Style Network. Through her developing platform, LiveSovereignSelf.com, she guides women in their third act toward clarity, boundaries, and emotional sovereignty. Stacey lives in New Preston, Connecticut, with her husband and their rescue dog.
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