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In adolescence, it’s natural to outgrow your shoes. In middlescence, it’s natural to outgrow your friends. Just because it’s natural doesn’t mean it’s comfortable. Recently, an MEA alum who was glowing after her third workshop said the four words that are the title of today’s post. She sounded both resigned and frustrated. She’d tried posing some ...
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His newest study, The New Age of Aging, offers the following insights:80 is the new 60. A half-century ago, “old” was 60. Today, it’s 80. This isn’t just your point
But, beyond the fact that a growing number of Boomers want to retire the word “retirement,” some major macroeconomic factors may lead to more of us retiring in our 70s
Substitute the word “successful” with “judgmental,” “egotistical,” and “cynical,” and I think you have described the world we live in. Yes, it can feel fucked at times! It’s easy to
Our consumer culture derives from and promotes a mindset of scarcity — an unconscious, unexamined belief system that we all swim in but can rarely recognize, so pervasive is its
As everything everywhere is in the eyes of the beholder, the label may not matter all that much, but for good measure, I checked out the word “cult” in Merriam
In researching my book on men’s feelings I am having to do some pretty deep dives trying to understand how we create our feelings. One surprising idea shared by neuro
So, I appreciated that I was introduced to this Guardian article entitled “We have brothers, sons, lovers – but they can’t live here!’ The happy home shared by 26 women.” I’ll
According to a recent TIAA Institute and George Washington University report, 53% of mid-lifers surveyed are “working with inaccurate information” regarding life expectancy. When we underestimate our life expectancy, we
My friend Vanda and I were talking about the word “disillusionment” recently. This word has a bad rap as it means to lose faith or trust in something for which
Recently, a Wisdom Well subscriber sent me a message and asked if I could give an example of how I live this practice. So, I’ve outlined below how I used
By June I was at MEA, I went as a pilgrim.Trusting the intuition that it was the right place for me.Perhaps it’s our shared “Inoperable Optimism”?Perhaps it stems from our
I define a transformative experience as a learning experience that has an identity impact, changing our sense-of-self in some important way. My work has led to a fundamental understanding at
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