Transitioning into Retirement, Rediscovering Your True Identity

Many of us on the verge of retirement are consumed with financial planning, thoughts of activities and what kind of work we will do once we retire.  Mary, like many others did the same thing, until she learned that for the career minded individual, retirement is a major transition in our lives.  Retirement involves physical, psychological and emotional changes that most retirees don’t plan for.

The average retiree will spend six to nine months going through a retirement transition following various stages similar to that of grieving process.  In addition, the vast majority of research on the psychological aspects of retirement has been written from a man’s point of view, but the retirement transition for women is just as traumatic. Spend some time with Mary discussing these various stages of retirement transition and hear about Mary’s journey into retirement and see what she has rediscovered about herself and how if might be beneficial to you if you are planning on retiring in the next year or have recently retired.