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TRANSITIONS: SEASONS OF CHANGE For many of us, we view retirement and the second 50 years of life as stable. We know what to expect because we’ve lived through a lot. We feel confident in our abilities to adapt and adjust, and we’ve set the conditions for stability. We’re better with money, have worked full-time jobs, have created careers, raised kids and probably lived in a few different homes. We’re seasoned. So, change can be shockingly shocking later in life. Although change is one of the few certainties in life, it rarely feels simple. For older adults, transitions often arrive in waves: the shift from career to retirement, changes in family structure, the realities of aging bodies, or a deepening search for spiritual meaning. Each of these transitions means both challenge and possibility. We have to navigate (yet again) something different, and we also get a little jolt of the excitement that comes with something new.
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