Personal Perspective: The joy of retirement can be challenged by many unanticipated stressors. Building resilience in midlife better prepares us for this period of transition.
Focusing on our well-being in the present sets us up for a smoother transition to retirement in the future.Source: Personal Image/Gary SImonds
Let’s explore some of emotional complexities of this major epoch in our lives and strategies to help manage them.Let’s face it: Many of us invest a lot of our personas into our work. In turn, we define ourselves by our careers, our titles. We ARE surgeons, nurses, firemen, analysts. When we depart from these roles, we experience a sudden evisceration of our selves, of the people we've defined ourselves as for so very long.
Simonds,G. Sotile, W. . The Thriving Physician. Huron Consulting Group, LLC; 1st edition. ISBN-10 : 1622181018
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