Are you still working?
What this question reveals about ageing. And how we start to change the story.
The Ageing Psychologist
My personal Substack
Subscribe:.rss.atom.json.md.m3u.pls
Live Last read · last published · next check
Latest episodes
My grandad Bill - Midlife and memory.
The science of memory, identity and how this changes as we age.
Mid-lifers: are we the frog boiling in the pot?
- Relational Ageism and the work of Dr Tracey Gendron and Dr Andrew Steward.
Feeding the hungry ghost: ageing, craving, and compassion.
- How psychologist and Buddhist teacher Tara Brach helped me wake up to 'the trance of unworthiness'
The hidden mechanics of ageism - Elderspeak and its co-conspirator Benevolent Ageism
- how ageism hides in plain sight, dressed up as nice!
Ageism in plain sight - how psychology has normalised ageing as a time of decline.
— and why I went along with it for 42 years.
Invisible after 55 - the lifelong impact of 'micro-ageism(s)'.
- And why the trivial matters.
Befriend your habenula - a new way to age?
- begin a gentle conversation with yourself with a mindfulness practice included!
"Your best years are behind you...they really are"
How ageism amplified my pain and how a Buddhist metaphor helped me. A compassion.“When we can catch the ageist beliefs at work, we open a small but powerful space between sensation and story. In that space, we get to challenge the assumptions that amplify our suffering.”
When the thoughts won't stop...
- Five miserable thoughts about ageing that made me want to meditate.