The Healing Journey Through Retirement: Your Journal of Transition and Transformation (The Healing Journey Series) [Paperback]

Phil Rich (Author), Dorothy Madway Sampson (Author), Dale S. Fetherling (Author)

Book Description

Series: The Healing Journey Series | Publication Date: November 29, 1999

Valuable guidance on adjusting to and managing this new stage of your life

When you retire, your emotions, lifestyle, and relationships undergo an enormous change. This comforting journal encourages you to examine the impact retirement will have on your life, invoking the healing power of writing to allow you to reflect upon and interpret your feelings.

The Healing Journey Through Retirement is designed to help you look deep within yourself to determine what work has meant to you, explore what you want when you leave the work force, and shape your plans and expectations for the future. This inspirational resource will be your guide to redesigning and rebuilding a central structure for your life beyond work-and doing so with a renewed sense of purpose.

Acclaim for The Healing Journey Through Retirement . . .

"A must read for retirees and those contemplating retirement. In retirement most feel that financial security is all that is needed-not so. The shocker is we realize too late that the mental and emotional relationship with those closest to us must be addressed."

Other books in The Healing Journey series include:

The Healing Journey, 208 pp., Paper (0-471-24712-X)

The Healing Journey for Couples, 288 pp., Paper (0-471-25470-3)

The Healing Journey Through Divorce, 264 pp., Paper (0-471-29575-2)

The Healing Journey Through Grief, 264 pp., Paper (0-471-29565-5)

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From the Back Cover

Valuable guidance on adjusting to and managing this new stage of your life

When you retire, your emotions, lifestyle, and relationships undergo an enormous change. This comforting journal encourages you to examine the impact retirement will have on your life, invoking the healing power of writing to allow you to reflect upon and interpret your feelings.

The Healing Journey Through Retirement is designed to help you look deep within yourself to determine what work has meant to you, explore what you want when you leave the work force, and shape your plans and expectations for the future. This inspirational resource will be your guide to redesigning and rebuilding a central structure for your life beyond work-and doing so with a renewed sense of purpose.

Acclaim for The Healing Journey Through Retirement . . .

"A must read for retirees and those contemplating retirement. In retirement most feel that financial security is all that is needed-not so. The shocker is we realize too late that the mental and emotional relationship with those closest to us must be addressed."

Other books in The Healing Journey series include:

The Healing Journey, 208 pp., Paper (0-471-24712-X)

The Healing Journey for Couples, 288 pp., Paper (0-471-25470-3)

The Healing Journey Through Divorce, 264 pp., Paper (0-471-29575-2)

The Healing Journey Through Grief, 264 pp., Paper (0-471-29565-5)

About the Author

PHIL RICH, EdD, MSW, is an experienced psychotherapist who has practiced for over twenty years. He has taught at the graduate and undergraduate levels and led professional workshops. He was born 'and raised in London, England, and now lives with his family in Amherst, Massachusetts.

DOROTHY MADWAY SAMPSON, MSS, LCSW, is a psychotherapist who is certified as a trainer in preretirement education and planning and has given training workshops throughout the country. She is a member of the Community Board of Advisors of the Stein Institute for Research on Aging at the University of California at San Diego. She and her husband have shared the experience of retirement for three decades.

DALE S. FETHERLING was a reporter and editor for twenty-five years with the Los Angeles Times and other major metropolitan newspapers.

Product Details

• Paperback: 283 pages
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; 1 edition (November 29, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471326933
• ISBN-13: 978-0471326939
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #541,631 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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74 of 74 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A REAL Guide for Retirement, April 15, 2000

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This review is from: The Healing Journey Through Retirement: Your Journal of Transition and Transformation (The Healing Journey Series) (Paperback)

I've been retired for nearly a year from a 34-year career -- and NO ONE prepared me for the depression that descended -- but if I'd read this book earlier, I'd have known how to ward it off --or at least know I wasn't losing my mind. It is NOT a "do this 1, 2, 3" book, nor is it a "let's all feel good" book -- it pulls no punches about a BIG transition in life. The clear text, pertinent real-life examples, and effective journal prompts give frameworks for me to look at lots of aspects of my life now -- including the changes retirement brings to marriage, to family relationships, to the way I view money -- to how I spend my time -- and to how I see myself. But it is not preachy or jargon-filled. The book always keeps the focus on the choices I have. It's realistic, accurate (the section on the stages is great--and comforting). The emphasis is on the person "doing" the book -- the retiree or soon-to-be retiree. For me, the only weak section was in the "feelings" chapter, especially the "mood analysis." The book is designed to be written in -- I don't think anything else will suffice. I wish I'd found it a year ago, but I think it's more powerful now. I might not have believed it then!

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "The Best", March 24, 2005

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This review is from: The Healing Journey Through Retirement: Your Journal of Transition and Transformation (The Healing Journey Series) (Paperback)

For those who are planning for their retirement or who are already in the throws of it, this book is a must. If you want financial planning advice--frankly, go elsewhere. But if you want help in dealing with all of the emotional stresses of retirement, then this is THE book for you. I found it, by accident, on the first day of my retirement and it has been a God send for me. While the transition for me has not been easy, the approaches undertaken by the authors have helped me clarify my thinking on many occasions. Give it a try!