Executive Coaching for Retirement with Grace
If you have had a high intensity career and feel proud of your accomplishments, the mere thought of retirement can feel scary. Why? Because your identity is intertwined with your career. It's the fear of becoming irrelevant.
Stepping away from a rewarding career means stepping away from stress and demands, but it also means stepping away from familiar colleagues, roles, a title and for many, what has been their purpose in life. All of these represent losses, and they are not insignificant losses. Loss is inevitably accompanied by a period of grief and sometimes in preparation for retirement there is anticipatory grief.
In our grief illiterate society we don't readily give permission to allow ourselves to grieve. In fact we wonder if it is even legitimate to grieve. After all, no one died. And so we bury the emotions and delay taking action even though we know in our hearts that it really is time.
It can be helpful to give this experience its rightful name, professional grief. Yes, you are grieving. And you can get to the other side of grief.
The reality is that retirement offers incredible new opportunities and fulfillment, minus the stress. For most individuals, working through letting go involves a period of mourning and it can not be rushed.
How Executive Coaching for Retirement Helps:
Approaching retirement is hard to do alone, that's why it is helpful to approach this process with a coach. I use a clinically informed life-span development perspective when coaching clients toward retirement. Fear and anxiety about retirement begins to dissipate when you fully realize the next exciting venture is around the corner. It's your next stage of development. I will help you deal with the emotional aspects of retirement. You will learn the steps to letting go and embracing the future.
Outcomes:
Executive Coaching toward retirement opens your eyes to the incredible opportunities that await.
You come to realize that it's not about losing your professional identity at all, but about launching the next stage of your development.
Designed for:
Executive leaders, academics, health care providers, legal professionals and development/foreign service workers, people who have had phenomenal careers of impact and have that sense it's time to move on but are not sure how.
What to Expect:
Initial complimentary consultation to answer any questions you may have
Virtual sessions that work for your schedule and coaching package designed to meet your needs
Services provided online in the comfort of your home or office, through a secure HIPAA compliant server.
Executive Coaching is available to you anywhere across the globe where you have access to the Internet.
“Retirement is a new beginning, not an ending. Together, we’ll explore what brings you joy and purpose in this next chapter.”