About this episode

The episode discusses the challenges of adjusting to retirement and the impact of early abuse on adulthood and relationships.

Send us Fan Mail Retirement can be an identity shift, especially for people who have spent their lives working in service, building community, and getting validation through being useful. We talk about how early abuse can echo through adulthood, retirement, and relationships. We explore what helps: talk therapy, but also nervous system regulation through movement, such as a room full of people at "dance church." From there, we move into family estrangement and how denial and conflicting...

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Hosts: Sadie Green, Pam Colby

Topics covered

• retirement
• identity shift
• abuse
• talk therapy
• nervous system regulation
• family estrangement

Keywords

• retirement
• identity shift
• abuse
• talk therapy
• movement
• dance church
• family estrangement

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