Rock Retirement
Rock Retirement

Author: Roger Whitney

Publisher: Morgan James Publishing

Published: 2017-10-03

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 1683505743

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“A guide for planning that rich season of life, based not just on money, but also on how to create meaningful relationships, memories, and legacy.” —Dan Miller, author of 48 Days to the Work You Love Rock Retirement offers inspirational advice on how to enjoy the journey to retirement to its fullest. Traditional retirement advice usually boils down to saving more, sacrificing more, and settling for less. This approach makes people dependent on systems outside their control, such as the market, economy, and investment returns. The result: people lose power over determining their life. What sets Rock Retirement apart is its holistic approach to helping people take back control and act intentionally towards the life they want. It addresses the fears, hopes, and dreams that people have about retirement, goes way beyond the numbers, and shows them how to balance living well today and tomorrow. “Too many books think retirement is just about finances. Instead, retirement is about looking at life in full and working out what it is you want to do and then turning to finances to make it happen. That’s exactly the focus of the practical and helpful guide.” —Andrew Scott, coauthor of The 100-Year Life “Roger Whitney lays out a plan for today’s modern retiree. If you are exhausted with being fed that retirement is the end game of life, then Roger’s book is a must-read!” —Darryl W. Lyons, author of 18 to 80 “If you’re dreaming of a retirement free of worry, chao and confusion, Rock Retirement will give you the clarity, a solid plan and fresh inspiration to help you get where you want to go.” —Jevonnah “Lady J” Ellison, author of Love Letters for Leading Ladies

Stellar Spiral Notebook Stories
Stellar Spiral Notebook Stories

Author: Ina May Wrye

Publisher: Dorrance Publishing

Published: 2024-06-19

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13:

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In the Stellar Spiral Notebook Stories, Ina May Wrye shares a series of stories that highlight moments in her life in which she has felt the guidance of the Holy Spirit. In “The Little Pack of Tissues,” Ina recalls feeling Divine Intervention guided her to a tire store, where she would come to comfort a woman mourning the loss of her husband. In “My God Is an Awesome God” and “God Gives Us Peace,” she demonstrates the profound nature of faith. The book concludes with Biblical scripture references for readers to reflect upon. This work may appeal to readers who are interested in Christian books about faith. Come join her on her journey. About the Author Ina May Wrye has been married for forty-eight years and is the mother to two grown kids. In December 2020, she retired from working in healthcare as a registered dietitian. Being encouraged by her daughter, who gave her a Stellar Spiral Notebook for Mother’s Day, Ina May began her writing career by scribbling her inspired stories in the notebook. Ina May and her husband are active in their local church, where they teach Sunday School classes.

Somebody I Used to Know
Somebody I Used to Know

Author: Wendy Mitchell

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Published: 2018-06-05

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 1524797928

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“A brave and illuminating journey inside the mind, heart, and life of a person with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.”—Lisa Genova, author of Still Alice Wendy Mitchell had a busy job with the British National Health Service, raised her two daughters alone, and spent her weekends running and climbing mountains. Then, slowly, a mist settled deep inside the mind she once knew so well, blurring the world around her. She didn’t know it then, but dementia was starting to take hold. In 2014, at age fifty-eight, she was diagnosed with young-onset Alzheimer’s. In this groundbreaking book, Mitchell shares the heartrending story of her cognitive decline and how she has fought to stave it off. What lay ahead of her after the diagnosis was scary and unknowable, but Mitchell was determined and resourceful, and she vowed to outwit the disease for as long as she could. As Mitchell learned to embrace her new life, she began to see her condition as a gift, a chance to experience the world with fresh eyes and to find her own way to make a difference. Even now, her sunny outlook persists: She devotes her time to educating doctors, caregivers, and other people living with dementia, helping to reduce the stigma surrounding this insidious disease. Still living independently, Mitchell now uses Post-it notes and technology to remind her of her routines and has created a “memory room” where she displays photos—with labels—of her daughters, friends, and special places. It is a room where she feels calm and happy, especially on days when the mist descends. A chronicle of one woman’s struggle to make sense of her shifting world and her mortality, Somebody I Used to Know offers a powerful rumination on memory, perception, and the simple pleasure of living in the moment. Philosophical, poetic, intensely personal, and ultimately hopeful, this moving memoir is both a tribute to the woman Wendy Mitchell used to be and a brave affirmation of the woman she has become. Praise for Somebody I Used to Know “Remarkable . . . Mitchell gives such clear-eyed insight that anyone who knows a person living with dementia should read this book.”—The Times (London) “A landmark book . . . The best reward for [Mitchell’s] courage and candour would surely be fundamental changes in the way people with dementia are treated by society.”—Financial Times

The Ultimate Guide to 209 Things to Do When You Retire - The perfect gift for men & women with lots of fun retirement activity ideas
The Ultimate Guide to 209 Things to Do When You Retire - The perfect gift for men & women with lots of fun retirement activity ideas

Author: Kate Rian

Publisher: Thady Publishing

Published:

Total Pages: 135

ISBN-13:

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Congratulations, you’ve finally retired! Want to get sailing lessons and go fishing with friends? Go for it! Fancy taking up the guitar and releasing a new album at 70? Why the heck not? Packed with an arsenal of unmissable ideas, advice and tips, this book is the ultimate guide to retirement planning. It's bursting at the seams with so many exciting things to do when you retire, from joining a rock band (it's never too late to be a rockstar on tour) to mastering the art of wine tasting (because someone's gotta do it!). But the best thing about retirement? You finally have the time to tick off all those things on your bucket list. Learn to salsa dance, write a novel, or even travel the world. This book is jam packed full of fun ideas including… - Get active with tennis camps, bridge weekends, and wildlife photography classes. Twist, swing, click – your new social life starts here! - Fancy yourself as a publisher author? Discover how to write and self-publish your first book (because your life's story could be the next bestseller). - Get your passport ready for the adventure of a lifetime with insights on planning vacations across the USA, UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and around the world (because 'globetrotter' looks great on your retired status). - Perfect your moves in dance classes, play an instrument in your local orchestra, or perhaps join a choir if you've always dreamt of being the next worldwide opera sensation (or if you just like to sing loudly in the shower). - We've even got advice on how to handle adrenaline-pumping sports like surfing and, for the quieter folks, the tranquility of fishing or gardening. This book is a veritable treasure chest of activities, experiences, and little-known retirement tips that will have you laughing, learning, and living like never before! Think you're too old for some of these? Hogwash! Age is just a number when it comes to living your best life. Worried you don't have the skills? That's the beauty of it! This book is all about diving into new experiences whether you're a man or woman, learning, laughing, and not being afraid to make a fool of yourself. After all, you've earned it! So, dust off your bucket list and get ready to add a few more entries. This much loved book is your ticket to a retirement ride that's more rock 'n roll than rocking chair. Grab your copy now and get ready to redefine what retirement means to you! This book is the perfect gift for dads, moms, teachers, nurses, fathers, coworkers and even as a life-changing funny gift at Christmas. It's packed full of new hobbies to try & exciting adventures to be had! So let’s get started!

The Prodigy
The Prodigy

Author: Luke Jones

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2017-11-06

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1546214143

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Brad Jones is a young but talented sports journalist living in Dallas, Texas. He is given the byline of his young life by his editor. The series of articles are to chronicle the life and golf of young Lee Weaver to be featured in the Dallas Morning Sun newspaper in the weeks leading up to the US open tournament being held for the first time at Weeping Dunes Golf and Country Club, where young Lee learned his skills. Brad must travel to Saleena, Texas, to get the story that can only be told by the aging caddie master who befriended young Lee and became his confidential sounding board. Having an overbearing father and a loving, understanding mother, young Lee must try and navigate the balance between his two parents and hone his golf skill in the process. Brad finds himself as wrapped up in the story along with his readers as he himself learns what happened so many years ago for the first time from eighty-three-year-old caddie master Willie Lumas.

Love and Loss in Life and in Treatment
Love and Loss in Life and in Treatment

Author: Linda B. Sherby

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-07-18

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 113682880X

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Have you ever wondered what a therapist really thinks? Have you ever wondered if a therapist truly cares about her patients? Have you tried to imagine the unimaginable, the loss of the person most dear to you? Is it true that `tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all? ` Love and loss are a ubiquitous part of life, bringing the greatest joys and the greatest heartaches. In one way or another all relationships end. People leave, move on, die. Loss is an ever-present part of life. In Love and Loss, Linda B. Sherby illustrates that in order to grow and thrive, we must learn to mourn, to move beyond the person we have lost while taking that person with us in our minds. Love, unlike loss, is not inevitable but, she argues, no satisfying life can be lived without deeply meaningful relationships. The focus of Love and Loss is how patients' and therapists' independent experiences of love and loss, as well as the love and loss that they experience in the treatment room, intermingle and interact. There are always two people in the consulting room, both of whom are involved in their own respective lives, as well as the mutually responsive relationship that exists between them. Love and loss in the life of one of the parties affects the other, whether that affect takes place on a conscious or unconscious level. Love and Loss is unique in two respects.The first is its focus on the analyst's current life situation and how that necessarily affects both the patient and the treatment. The second is Sherby's willingness to share the personal memoir of her own loss which she has interwoven with extensive clinical material to clearly illustrate the effect the analyst's current life circumstance has on the treatment. Writing as both a psychoanalyst and a widow, Linda B. Sherby makes it possible for the reader to gain an inside view of the emotional experience of being an analyst, making this book of interest to a wide audience. Professionals from psychoanalysts and psychotherapists and bereavement specialists through students in all the mental health fields to the public in general, will resonate and learn from this heartfelt and straightforward book.