We all assume that we know what it is that we want -- but is it always so straightforward? Knowing what you want may seem pretty straightforward in the first part of adulthood. In the second half of life, the situation may well change dramatically.
Here we look at some clues or hints into how to possibly move through regret into the rest of our lives. An important part of the answer may well consists in not allowing the regret to consume us because the space it would otherwise occupy…
Dealing with regret is very often one of the major life tasks of midlife and the second half of life. In the second half of life in particular, regret can be an extremely difficult thing to deal with.
Feeling stuck in life often revolves around fundamental truths, realities or feelings that we need to take in. Often this means coming up against who we really are. Such experiences of self-encounter, in the deepest sense, are what /a-midlife-transitions often refer to as encounters with…
Feeling stuck in life is an extremely common experience. It can happen at any stage of our life journey. Nonetheless, the feeling of stuckness often assails us in those parts of our journey when we are either trying to make, or else are needing to make,…
In my first post on self awareness and the most stressful life events, we looked at some of the complexes that can assail us in stressful situations: but just what exactly is a feeling-toned complex? And, how can dealing with a complex enable me to…
It might seem that stress and self-awareness are unconnected. Yet, the more conscious that we can be of such connections at times when we confront stress, the more in possession of ourselves we can remain. In the demanding "fall start up" season, many find a…
What are some of the things that actually go on within the psyche of a person dealing with death in the family? An essential part of grieving is to find a way for psyche to move the departed individual from the realm of the living,…
Yet grief and grieving are an essential part of the psyche coming to terms with the loss of a close family member. We may well speak of an archetypal pattern to human grief. U. Mass. Prof. James Averill has made a strong case that grief…
Many people rightly realize that finding the right career in midlife is an essential piece of soul business -- yet they might miss the most important parts of meeting that necessity. finding the right career Why? Well, because we often have an overly-romantic notion of…