Another wonderful newsletter, Julia! You are singlehandedly raising the temperature of my inner feistiness to fire-breathing dragon level. Thank you for your fearlessness, courage, honesty and showing how to not just survive but thrive into our later years.
Oh my goodness, Julia — I am honored to have had any part in prompting this excellent piece! My eyebrows are both ascending with delight, and with gratitude for the shout-out!
I am regularly inspired by snippets, side comments and observations. Honestly, Jan, I am always a little gobsmacked that people have trouble finding things to write about except for this: at our age and older, the wealth of life, impressions and experiences are always waiting at Stage Right to be tagged for a story. That's why writing is one of the great creative gifts- the older we are the more material we have to mix, match, mixup and present!
I love how you expound on the relationship between aging and wisdom vs. bitterness. I totally agree that unresolved hurt and the feeling of victimhood can keep one's life frozen in the past. I have recently started working with past hurts and the strong sense of being wronged using the Internal Family System and it helped me resolve these feelings in almost a quantum speed.
In the middle of a yoga session this evening I started talking to myself out loud about this very thing. I've gone through sooooo many shit storms and have blamed soooo many outside sources for my failures and misfortunes. And I'm still sitting here with daily shit storms.
Another wonderful newsletter, Julia! You are singlehandedly raising the temperature of my inner feistiness to fire-breathing dragon level. Thank you for your fearlessness, courage, honesty and showing how to not just survive but thrive into our later years.
Oh my goodness., thank you!
Oh my goodness, Julia — I am honored to have had any part in prompting this excellent piece! My eyebrows are both ascending with delight, and with gratitude for the shout-out!
I am regularly inspired by snippets, side comments and observations. Honestly, Jan, I am always a little gobsmacked that people have trouble finding things to write about except for this: at our age and older, the wealth of life, impressions and experiences are always waiting at Stage Right to be tagged for a story. That's why writing is one of the great creative gifts- the older we are the more material we have to mix, match, mixup and present!
I love how you expound on the relationship between aging and wisdom vs. bitterness. I totally agree that unresolved hurt and the feeling of victimhood can keep one's life frozen in the past. I have recently started working with past hurts and the strong sense of being wronged using the Internal Family System and it helped me resolve these feelings in almost a quantum speed.
That takes a lot of courage, Louisa. Real peace is earned. I am working on mine too, and it is so slow but so worthwhile.
Yes, so worthwhile. Let's continue to grow elegantly into old age (golden age)!
In the middle of a yoga session this evening I started talking to myself out loud about this very thing. I've gone through sooooo many shit storms and have blamed soooo many outside sources for my failures and misfortunes. And I'm still sitting here with daily shit storms.
The only common denominator is....ME.
That's an article, Kristi.