The Healing Journey Through Retirement: Your Journal of Transition and Transformation »

PHIL RICH, EdD, MSW, is an experienced psychotherapist who has practiced for over twenty years. He has taught at the graduate and undergraduate levels and led professional workshops. He was born 'and raised in London, England, and now lives with his family in Amherst, Massachusetts.

DOROTHY MADWAY SAMPSON, MSS, LCSW, is a psychotherapist who is certified as a trainer in preretirement education and planning and has given training workshops throughout the country. She is a member of the Community Board of Advisors of the Stein Institute for Research on Aging at the University of California at San Diego. She and her husband have shared the experience of retirement for three decades.

DALE S. FETHERLING was a reporter and editor for twenty-five years with the Los Angeles Times and other major metropolitan newspapers.

Valuable guidance on adjusting to and managing this new stage of your life

When you retire, your emotions, lifestyle, and relationships undergo an enormous change. This comforting journal encourages you to examine the impact retirement will have on your life, invoking the healing power of writing to allow you to reflect upon and interpret your feelings.

The Healing Journey Through Retirement is designed to help you look deep within yourself to determine what work has meant to you, explore what you want when you leave the work force, and shape your plans and expectations for the future. This inspirational resource will be your guide to redesigning and rebuilding a central structure for your life beyond work-and doing so with a renewed sense of purpose.

Acclaim for The Healing Journey Through Retirement . . .

"A must read for retirees and those contemplating retirement. In retirement most feel that financial security is all that is needed-not so. The shocker is we realize too late that the mental and emotional relationship with those closest to us must be addressed."

Other books in The Healing Journey series include:

The Healing Journey, 208 pp., Paper (0-471-24712-X)

The Healing Journey for Couples, 288 pp., Paper (0-471-25470-3)

The Healing Journey Through Divorce, 264 pp., Paper (0-471-29575-2)

The Healing Journey Through Grief, 264 pp., Paper (0-471-29565-5)

Embarking on Your Journey.
A Road Map to Retirement.
Destination: Understanding Your Feelings.
Destination: The Transition From Work.
Destination: Accepting a New Role.
Destination: Discovering All You Can Do.
Destination: Getting Straight About Money.
Destination: Another Job or Business.
Destination: Redefining Your Marriage.
Destination: Being Single in Retirement.
Destination: Managing Family Relationships.
Destination: Looking to the Past.
Destination: Planning Ahead.
As One Journey Ends, Another Begins.
Acknowledgments.
About the Authors.