I've looked at the symbolism of home before in this blog, but it's important enough to explore it in more depth.  Home evokes powerful feelings of belonging, safety, and contentment. These feelings are absolutely essential to our lives.  For /a-midlife-transition, they represent needs that we…

Many of us struggle at some point with the question of how to let go of the past, and move on with our lives. Often (but certainly not always!) this is associated with major life transitions, and intimately bound up with the question "How can…

The question of "solitude vs loneliness" is vital to us in the second half of life, although it's really with us for our whole lives. What actually makes the difference between loneliness and solitude?  And how, especially, do these things affect us during mid-life transition…