Reflecting on
Retirement
For thirty or forty years the work held your days. Now it does not.
© Retirement
Overview
Reflecting on Retirement is a reflective journal for the years after work. A guided journal that asks rather than instructs, it makes room to notice the changed shape of your days and what retirement is asking of you.
What's inside
It opens with a short prelude, then moves through four movements: Leaving, Settling, Choosing, Continuing. Each two-page spread holds one reflection and a quiet, faintly ruled space to write. The closing wraps up nothing. Read in any order. The book will wait.
Draws on the following research
Ethan Kross and Ozlem Ayduk, on self-distanced reflection.
Kristin Neff, on self-compassion.
James W. Pennebaker, the expressive writing literature.
Acceptance and commitment work on values-directed living.
Gerontological research on purpose and meaning in later life.