A few weeks ago, Sue over on Women Living Well After 50 (link here) said, “Acceptance isn't resignation”. She was challenging us to explore where we needed to adjust our wellbeing routines, based on accepting the reality of our current situation. It made me consider what I need to adjust in my life for the … Continue reading Accepting Reality
This week continued my emotional healing process. With no forward motion yet on the house recovery, the emotional healing is definitely feeling up and down. There’s been multiple times where my inner voice says, “Why bother?” Why bother getting out of bed? Why bother trying to plan something that won’t work out? Why bother trying … Continue reading The Ups & Downs of Emotional Recovery Continue
In the early days of my retirement, I read about the concept of morning pages in Julia Camerson’s The Artist Way. In the way of many things in retirement, I “tried it on.” It stuck. I’ve been an avid morning journal writer ever since. My morning journal time has become almost necessary to my well-being … Continue reading Stop the Broken Record
It’s hard to believe that I’m celebrating 10 years of writing a blog. [Yes, that also means I’ve been retired for over 10 years.] The blogging world has shifted in the past 10 years; many bloggers I started following early on have moved onto other things as life transitions happened. Other bloggers have moved to … Continue reading It’s My 10 Year Blog Anniversary!
One of the elements I love about retirement is the ability to set up my days to align with my retirement lifestyle vision, which is based on my values and hopefully my natural inclinations and strengths. These past months have been a blur and I felt the need to relook at where I’m spending my … Continue reading A Review of My Time
My morning journal this past month too often stated, “I woke up weary and weepy.” I’m still feeling emotionally drained with too many mornings unmotivated to get out of bed. Many days I’m pushing myself to get up with a planned morning commitment (cardio drumming or a garden club meeting). Simple tasks take so much … Continue reading May’s Ups & Downs – a personal update
Back in winter, when I was stuck on what to write for a blog, I used a technique I’ve read other bloggers use, a “Taking Stock” approach, using the letters in winter for the individual words (link here). I am once again stuck on what to write for a blog, so here’s another Taking Stock, … Continue reading Taking Stock this Spring
One of the positives about writing a blog is the ability to look back to see what was going on in my life at various times. I can look back and see how I was dealing with the early days of my own retirement transition (many years ago now! – here’s a link to my … Continue reading Where Was I?
Winter is almost over here, although this week it’s still a bit chilly for Florida. Nothing like the Arctic Blast much of the USA is facing, but cool enough in the morning that makes the emergency heat kick in and us scrambling to find coats and gloves for a morning walk. I saw a fun … Continue reading Winter Taking Stock
When I was working, I found it exciting to manage multiple projects simultaneously. I had juggling multiple balls down to an art. Those project management skills are needed again and unfortunately feel very, very rusty. In retirement, I had embraced less multi-tasking and a slower pace of getting things done. As part of our hurricane … Continue reading Relearning to Juggle
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