Retirement Coaching
7 October 2026
Anxiety After Retirement: A Retirement Coaching Case Study
Anxiety after retirement can be difficult to understand, especially when you wanted to retire and life appears to be going well. This retire...
Resources and Insights
Retirement Coaching
21 September 2026
Low Self-Esteem in Retirement: Do the Old Rules Still Have to Apply?
Retirement is usually presented as a change in what you do. You stop working and gain more control over your time, so you can start deciding...
Retirement Coaching
8 March 2026
New Challenges in Retirement: Why They Matter for Wellbeing
Retirement rarely unfolds in a single, predictable way. Some step away from demanding careers and feel immediate relief, prioritising rest a...
Retirement Coaching
20 February 2026
Psychological Readiness for Retirement: Beyond Finances
Once people accept that financial and psychological readiness are not the same, a follow-up question arises. Sometimes it’s asked explicitly...
Retirement Coaching
9 February 2026
Psychological Readiness for Retirement vs Financial Readiness
Financial readiness answers the question, “Can I retire?” Psychological readiness answers a very different question: “How will it feel to li...
Retirement Coaching
27 January 2026
The Retirement You Planned vs the One You’re Living
When I first speak to a new retiree, the conversation often goes something like this. Retirement arrives roughly as intended, with the plan...
Retirement Coaching
12 January 2026
Assertiveness in Retirement: Why It Matters
Retirement rarely goes awry because the spreadsheet was wrong. More often, difficulty arises because important conversations weren’t held or...
Retirement Coaching
6 January 2026
Consistency in Retirement: Why It Matters Most
After years of working as a coach and therapist, one pattern stands out above all others: consistency in retirement. People who plan well, t...
Transformation
16 December 2025
Identity After Work: Status, Relevance and Self-Worth
When someone decides to work with a Retirement Coach, it doesn’t usually take long for the topic of identity after work and their sense of s...
Impact
8 December 2025
Work in Retirement: From Being Chosen to Choosing
There is a myth out there, still, one that people still imagine retirement as the full stop at the end of their professional story.
Retirement Coaching
1 December 2025
Retirement Legacy Planning: How to Create Influence in Later Life
Legacy used to mean one thing: what happens after you’ve gone, such as a will, some money or a few ‘instructions’. Modern retirement, howeve...
Transformation
24 November 2025
Retirement Transformation: 6 Questions To Retire Successfully
Why Retirement Transformation Needs the Right Detail Every successful retirement transformation starts with detail, the right kind, focusing...
Challenge
17 November 2025
Retirement Stretch Zone: What It Is and How to Use It Well
There is often a moment in retirement when someone realises that this stage of life needs to be shaped, that they can’t be passive and...
Acceptance
10 November 2025
Bridging the Fantasy–Reality Gap in Retirement
Some people approach retirement with a clear picture of what it will look like, but bridging the fantasy–reality Gap in retirement begins wh...
Patterns
3 November 2025
Retirement Patterns and Cliff Edges: How to Stay Grounded
Even the most psychologically grounded individual can find retirement unsettling, with positive retirement patterns underpinning the transit...
Mental Health
27 October 2025
Psychological Preparation for Retirement | Retire With IMPACT
Retiring successfully is a process that involves more than ending a career; it requires understanding how different parts of your life will...
Impact
20 October 2025
Retirement Conversations: Start With Yourself, Then With Others
Few transitions are as significant as retirement, yet in my experience as a coach and therapist, too many people only talk about it meaningf...
Impact
30 May 2025
The First Step to Retiring With IMPACT
Let’s jump straight in. The state of your retirement planning, your transition into retirement, or your established retirement life reflects...
Meaning
30 May 2025
Making Sense of Why Things Are as They Are
If your planning or actual retirement isn’t going as you hoped, or even if it is but you’re not sure why, you’re in good company.
Patterns
30 May 2025
What Are You Doing That’s Working and What Isn’t?
If you’re struggling in retirement, feeling stuck or overwhelmed, or feeling like you’re not living the life you thought you would, it might...
Acceptance
30 May 2025
Closing the Gap Between Fantasy and Reality
“I was still trying to be the boss of a company,” said one of my clients. “But there was no company.” Retirement hadn’t gone wrong so much a...
Challenge
30 May 2025
The Right Challenge, at the Right Time, in the Right Way
Retirement isn’t the absence of challenge, but having the right amount. That’s why the fifth stage of the Retire With IMPACT Model is CHALLE...
Transformation
30 May 2025
The Retirement You Build From the Inside Out
You've talked to the right people. You’ve made sense of what’s really going on. You’ve identified what works and what doesn’t. You’ve accept...
Are You Ready For Retirement?
Take my comprehensive Retirement Readiness Quiz to assess your current retirement readiness and discover the specific areas where The IMPACT Model can help you transform your retirement experience.
