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Fantasy/Reality Gap Symptom Checker
Session Objectives
Session Objectives – FRG Symptom Checker
By the end of this session, you will be able to:
Use the FRG Symptom Checker to identify more accurately unhelpful and helpful FRGs
Use the FRG Symptom Checker to better understand which types of FRG are operating in your life
Increase awareness of how helpful and unhelpful FRGs show up in your daily life
Reflect on how your symptoms relate to your earlier FRG statements
Symptom Checker
FRG Symptom Checker
Check off the symptoms that you have noticed in your daily life. Select all that apply.
Look over the symptoms you selected and compare them with your earlier FRG statements. Together, they offer valuable insights into how acceptance may be influencing your retirement.
What Did You Discover?
Use these questions to deepen your reflection across patterns, links, and meaning.
Patterns & Frequency Which symptoms show up most often, and in which situations? Are they more mental, emotional, physical, behavioural, or related to your change strategies? What might they be telling you about how you’re responding to retirement?
Links Between Statements & Symptoms Can you see a relationship between your FRG statements and your symptoms? Do they reinforce each other, or reveal something new?
Helpful Alignment Where do you notice helpful FRGs linked to positive symptoms — calm, motivation, or connection?
Unhelpful Patterns Where do unhelpful FRGs connect to negative symptoms — restlessness, self-criticism, avoidance, or rigid approaches to change?
Meaning & Direction What do your combined results tell you about your current relationship with acceptance? How might greater acceptance improve your wellbeing, behaviour, or relationships?
Closing Question What changes could begin to close an unhelpful gap?
Self-Assessment
Which Best Describes What You Found?
Having completed both the Statements and Symptoms activities, take a moment to honestly locate yourself. There are no right or wrong answers — your response simply reinforces your current position on the spectrum of acceptance.
- check_circleAcceptance is not an issue for me
- helpAcceptance might be an issue for me
- warningAcceptance is an issue for me
Your responses suggest where your focus needs to be regarding acceptance — and that’s exactly the right place to start.
FRG Symptom Checker
Closing
Reflection
”Awareness of symptoms is the first step to reducing their power.”
Recognising your symptoms isn’t always comfortable, but it’s an essential part of progress. The aim isn’t to judge or fix them straight away — only to notice how they show up and what they might be telling you about your retirement.
Every symptom you’ve identified offers valuable information about how your Fantasy–Reality Gaps are operating right now. Once you see them clearly, you begin to regain influence over them.
Awareness allows understanding. Understanding allows choice. And choice opens the door to transformation.
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