Response Flexibility – Shifting Perspectives
Turning Old Paradigms Upside Down and Inside Out
By framing my retirement as leaning into Renaissance (re-birth) I have created an opportunity – even a requirement – to review and challenge old paradigms, old ways of thinking – […]
Finding the Goldilocks Spot
As you read this, I will be celebrating my (almost) 75th birthday by attempting to hike to the top of Mt. Lassen (10,500 feet). When I climbed the peak last […]
Retirement as Re-Calibration, as Metamorphosis
When I casually mentioned to several friends recently that I was experiencing my leaning into retirement as a time of re-calibration, we all nodded as though we knew what I […]
Shifting Perspective – Making the Invisible Visible
I had a five-hour flight to teach at the Psychotherapy Networker Symposium last week, enough time to read one entire book, start to finish. And to relish not only the […]
Retiring into Renaissance – Letting Go of Who “I” Am
The more I lean into retirement-Renaissance (July 1, 2022), the more well-intentioned, sincerely interested friends and colleagues ask me, “What’s next?” And some day (Lord willing and the creeks don’t […]
From Resilience through Retirement to Renaissance
I’m retiring from my professional life July 1, 2022. A decision leaned into for several years, guided by Michael Gelb’s phrase “from retirement to Renaissance” in his book Brain Power: […]
Life Beyond the Fish Tank
The beloved poet and spiritual teacher Mark Nepo recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of the publication of his New York Times best-selling The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You […]
Me…We…and Thee – Experience Creates…and Shifts…Our Relational Identities
In Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age, Bruce Feiler offers an interesting conceptualization of relational identities: me, we, and thee. ME is a focus on one’s […]
Re-couping from the Revving Up and the Shutting Down of a Hard, Hard Year
This weekend is the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere. On Sunday, June 20, at 8:31pm Pacific Time, the earth will reverse the tilt of its axis and begins its […]
Pandemic Paradoxes Continue: Control v. Choice
Paradoxes of the pandemic seem as unending as the pandemic itself. The other day my thinking meandered into control v choice. One of our most natural biological and psychological tactics […]