Post Early Retirement Anxiety
Post Early Retirement Anxiety I have never considered myself an anxious person. Sure, I felt stress from time to time during my full time career. I might wake up with a queasy feeling in...
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The Reintegration Zone
The Reintegration Zone The panic hit suddenly. I scanned my phone anxiously as all the bars disappeared. No signal! I looked around the auditorium. We were deep in the bowels of my daughter’s school...
Lack of Control
Lack of Control Amidst worrying about white swan events and giving myself permission to suck, I have come to some conclusions about the way I work. Struggles with retirement and work life balance should...
Silencing My Inner Voice
Silencing My Inner Voice I have talked in the past about feeling like a financial independence fake. We all feel this way sometimes. The impostor syndrome is real and often hard to escape for...
Time Stress
Time Stress I have two Achilles heals. Two mental health issues that continually challenge me no matter how introspective and self-aware I become. One is food. I have talked before about how food was...
Financial Independence Fake
Financial Independence Fake I am a financial independence fake. A coward. Here I have been spouting off about my half retirement. Bragging about life changes and am moving on to an existence of...
More Than This
More Than This I used to be so much more than this. I listen to his words as I peer down at my computer screen. It is a routine follow-up for his heart failure....
Financial Independence and Mental Health
Financial Independence and Mental Health I have talked in the past about the money mind meld. Basically, the realization that I was financially independent came to me suddenly, and hit me like a ton...
Catastrophe and Risk Mitigation
Catastrophe and Risk Mitigation I’m sure many of you, like me, listened to Suze Ormon on the Afford Anything Podcast with a mix of nausea and anger. In one fell swoop she minimized the...
Money Insecurity
Money Insecurity It is easy to paint financial independence as a nirvana. Easy to say that it is a goal that once attained will allay all worries and anxieties. But I think this viewpoint...
