23/06/2026
"Most guidance about retirement is focused on the practical: finances, travel plans, how to fill the time. Almost none of it prepares you for the psychological reality of the transition, the complexity of losing an identity you’d held for decades, the grief that arrives without warning, or the difficulty of building a meaningful life from scratch without any of the external structures that used to do that work for you."
This article from "A Conscious Rethink" explains why this transition is harder for some and offers some ideas on to help the transition.
A year in, and it still doesn’t feel right. There’s a restlessness you can’t quite name. A vague sense of displacement that won’t lift. You expected to feel settled by now, and the fact that you don’t is starting to feel like its own problem. Your experience is far more common than the ret...
