“I think I might be having a mid-life crisis.”
“I don’t recognize myself anymore when I look in the mirror.”
“I accomplished all the things I thought I wanted and I’m not sure I’m satisfied.”
“With my children gone, I feel sort of like I’m drifting.”
During midlife, individuals often begin to reexamine their lives. This may be prompted by physical aging, social changes such as children going to school or leaving home, professional changes such as moving into leadership roles, divorce, caring for older parents, and changing friendships. While a midlife transition (or crisis) can feel disorienting, it can also be an important, and even an exciting time to re-evaluate, reorient, and reinvent ourselves.
If you are at mid-life and you are feeling a little “out of sorts” you are not alone! People in midlife tend to reflect more deeply on their relationships, their identity, their work, and the meaning of what’s happened in their lives. They compare the goals they had, with what’s happened, and what they want for the rest of their lives. At midlife, we are in a much more resourced position to navigate an identity shift than we were in adolescence. We have life experience, a developed brain, and often more time and money to explore things.
Together we can work to overcome:
Anxiety
Career changes
Challenges of caregiving for aging parents - “the sandwich generation”
Depression
Empty Nester Syndrome
Relationship issues
Finding your purpose
Goal setting/re-evaluating
Grief work
Identity
Self-concept work
Transition
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