I love new beginnings but Boomers and Empty Nesters have expressed to me they worry as they enter the NEW. Worry is just one color, one sound, in a full orchestra of a self. Who hasn’t felt worried and out of control? Let worry express and then move. “I am not going to think about
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Boomers, empty nesters, parents, and adult children have shared with me that part of the overwhelm during holidays, is thinking you need to impress. Key word is need. Real word is want. Ask yourself, “Do I want to do this today or is there a little holiday hammer in my head pounding me to do
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Empty Nesters, Boomers and those in life transitions, share theirtraditions: 1. Read a children’s book Xmas Eve and then add it to the collection for their children when they will be parents.2. Make candy apples while playing favorite holiday sing along songs.3. Open one present Christmas Eve.4. Open the stocking in bed in the morning
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How many parents and baby boomers do you think are saying, “I AM NOT GOING to do all that shopping, cooking and having house guests next year for Thanksgiving? I am exhausted and feel unappreciated.” Well, I can tell you I received calls and emails from empty nesters and boomers with that message after drop
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Parents, Boomers, Singles, Married, and Children, have shared with me over the weeks that they all love pie and gravy. What they miss are people who aren’t around the table. All agreed tears and laughs will both show up throughout the house. – Here is how some will
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Amy called to talk about the holidays and her children. She knows herself well as a mother with traditions. She doesn’t know who she is when holidays fall apart. This year, Thanksgiving, to her, is falling apart. The children cannot come home. One is going to the in laws. Her daughter is going to stay
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Planning for Thanksgiving is just beginning. Talk of recipes and traditions that are changing. Boomers think about getting out of town and not cooking anymore and yet they love the smell of apple pie at home. What are you planning? Do you need to shift traditions and write a new? One family didn’t have much
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Hi there, I have a great story to inspire you. You would do the same for me. I really wanted something. Sorry I can’t name it. I promised. I called three days in a row with no call back or email. I was heading to the airport and called again. I asked for what
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A baby boomer, empty nester mother, so sweetly said to me, “I want to beabove the blues.” When I showed her this photo, she cried. She talked about wanting to be held, nested in safety where she would be fine and her college son, with special needs, out there in the world without her
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Do empty nesters and baby boomers celebrate trick or treat? A reporter asked me that one early morning and I said, “Whether our children are home or away, we have memories and the fun of who’s at the door tonight?” We would love it if our children would email photos but they usually don’t. What
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Parents ask me if their children’s behavior of indecisiveness is damaging? I believe there is the up side and the down. You learn through choices and mistakes. When you become immobile that is limiting and frightening. Get help.When you move slower you see and feel more. Children might take a break from education, work and
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Parents ask me, “What do I do with my children’s stuff now that they are out of the house?” ASK THEM AND SAY WHAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO DO WITH IT. Let them know you won’t be the storage unit for them. You want to have open space and a new nest for yourself that
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Natalie Caine, M.A. natalie@lifeintransition.org
