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Posted on Monday, January 30, 2012 7:28 PM
For those who are in their middle years, there is nothing so life changing as finding yourself with the responsibility of taking care of your aging parent (or the aging parent of your spouse or partner). Your life changes because 1) you have additional care-taking responsibilities which must fit in and be balanced with your regular life, and 2) you embark on an emotional journey of redefining a relationship with someone of such magnitude (whether good or bad) in your life, and of letting go. |
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Posted on Tuesday, January 24, 2012 4:40 PM
Change can be a wonderful opportunity. It’s an opportunity for us to transform from who we are into who we really want to be. However, when we first encounter a major life change, it may not feel like an opportunity! Being diagnosed with a life-threatening illness does not feel like an opportunity. Your partner leaving you for someone else does not feel like an opportunity. Losing your job, having to take care of an elderly parent, and so many more life changes do not initially strike us as an opportunity. |
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Posted on Saturday, August 06, 2011 8:17 PM
Changes! We all face them from time to time, don’t we? In fact, life is filled with change. Our normal developmental path as humans is based on the changes we make over time—we pass from infancy to childhood to adolescence to adulthood, making changes all along the way. Each new stage of life places new demands on us. As we grow and mature, we encounter a number of changes in our lives. Often change is welcomed, if not sought after. As a child, do you remember not being able to wait until you could ride your bike without training wheels? |
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