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Peggy Handler 
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****Offering Teletherapy-Video or Phone Therapy- During This Time****

Conscious Aging



And then the knowledge comes to me
that I have space within me
​ for a second, timeless, larger life.

- R.M Rilke

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As baby boomers grow older, there is a revolutionary movement underway. Just as boomers have lived a very different life from their parents decade after decade, they are also approaching aging differently. There are many terms used for this new relationship to becoming an elder: Conscious Aging, Gerotranscendence, and Transforming Aging to name a few.
Aging consciously is a path that encourages older people to reclaim their rightful place as respected  and wise elders in our society. It refutes the invisibility and lack of importance accorded elders in this youth-obsessed culture. 
Aging can be a time of cultivating wisdom, living a more authentic life, of deeper introspection and spiritual growth, of mentorship and service, and of new work or creative interests. As time grows shorter, it may be a time of figuring out what is really important, and moving in those directions.
There may also be fear and concerns that are present or emerge, and these too, need to be given a voice and honored.
I would be happy to collaborate with you in therapy on whatever is stirring in you about aging.

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I am an IONS (Institute of Noetic Sciences)-certified Conscious Aging workshop facilitator and I would be happy to work with you individually on aging consciously! 
Topics covered in the IONS workshops ( that we can also work on individually)  include:
  • Life Review
  • Self-Compassion
  • Forgiveness
  • Surrender-Letting Go
  • Creating a New Vision of Aging
Other relevant topics to consider may be:
  • Mid-life Crisis
  • Empty Nest
  • Retirement/Finances
  • Creativity
  • Health and Mortality
  • Relationships
  • Career options

Visit my Mid and Later Life page
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Visit my Process of Psychotherapy
 page



​We cannot live the afternoon of life
according to the program of life's morning-
for what was great in the morning
will be little at evening,
and what in morning was true
​will at evening, have become a lie.
-Carl Jung
Recommended reading:
  • Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life- James Hollis
  • Passion for Life: Lifelong Psychological and  Spiritual Growth- Anne Brennan and Janice Brewi
  • The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife- Marianne Williamson
  • The Second Half of Life: Opening the Eight Gates of Wisdom- Angeles Arrien
  • Dreams for the Second Half of Life- Harry R. Moody
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