Circle of Life
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This is an excerpt of a presentation that I give in senior centers on how to turn inevitable losses into gains to keep one's life full and vibrant with aging. Here's the introduction:
Life has inevitable losses and suffering. These setbacks can be viewed as doing indelible damage to our lives – or as part of the natural cycle of endings and beginnings, where when one door closes, another opens. In this session, we will examine this natural cycle, which we call the Circle of Life, looking at how it operates, how selected individuals have transformed setbacks into successes (Helen Keller, Nelson Mandela, Grandma Moses), and how, if we choose, we might do the same.
