Listen "Retirement Rituals are Crucial! - with Day Schildkret"
Episode Synopsis
Day Schildkret is an award-winning queer author, artist, ritualist, and teacher internationally known for Morning Altars, which BuzzFeed calls, “a celebration of nature and life.” With nearly 100K followers on social media, Day has worked for close to two decades with thousands of individuals, communities and organizations to help heal the culture through a meaningful and creative response to marking personal and collective change. Day is the founder and principal instructor of the Morning Altars Practitioner & Teacher Training. He is the author of Morning Altars: A 7-Step Practice to Nourish Your Spirit through Nature, Art and Ritual, as well as a newer book, Hello, Goodbye: 75 Rituals for Times of Loss, Celebration and Change, which hit Amazon’s #1 book in three categories.You can find out more about Day at https://morningaltars.com and https://dayschildkret.com and on Instagram and Facebook his handle is @morningaltars.Today, Day talks about the importance of rituals in helping us make sense of and make peace with the changes in our lives. We all face many changes; retirement is one of the bigger events that rock our lives. So it stands to reason that we don't come out of it unscathed. Having rituals to mark our transition into retirement helps us to celebrate (and mourn) the end of this part of our life, and prepares us for what lies ahead.Timestamps:04:15 - Rituals versus Routines06:50 - why do we struggle with change?09:45 - 3 rituals around retirement12:10 - description of each of the retirement rituals
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