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Retirement isn’t a single moment. It’s a transition — emotional, relational, practical, and deeply personal. For many people, it unfolds in stages. Not neat boxes, not a linear path, but a gentle rhythm of change that can help you understand where you are and what you need. These three stages — Anticipation, Landing, and Settling — offer a way of noticing your experience and meeting yourself with clarity and compassion. Anticipation: Imagining Life Beyond Work Anticipation be

Retirement is often described as a finish line, a reward, or a long‑awaited break. But for many people, it feels far more complex than that. There is an emotional landscape that rarely gets talked about — a mix of relief, uncertainty, possibility, and sometimes a quiet fear of becoming irrelevant. When the structure of work falls away, it can leave a space that feels both freeing and unsettling. This is the in‑between: the place between who you have been and who you are becom