It’s quite common for people to seek out counselling during any time a major life transition is experienced and retirement is one of our more significant life changes.
Retirement is a big cultural change from the hectic life of a regular 40-work week to a lifestyle that is less structured. Additionally, if you were busy raising kids during your formal work life, your life has changed even more if your adult children are now living independently. Children and work are two huge life endeavours that not only take a big chunk of our time in our younger adulthood, they define us and our relationships with others. It’s natural for our identities and relationships with others to feel different when these big roles are significantly changed.
Retirement can be a very fruitful time for exploring how our younger selves were perhaps not fully expressed or healed when are lives were more hectic. Counselling therapy can provide a safe, encouraging place to embark on this discovery.