We’re Too Old to Run From These Feelings: Here’s How to Deal With Them

Dear Reader: this is the first of a two part series. I may get brave and do another, but let’s deal with what’s in front of most of us first. Because of the importance of the topic, the series is for everyone.

My friend Melissa just got summarily drop-kicked from her GSA job. With a resounding kick in the front teeth to all those idiots who honestly believe that ALL government employees are lazy do-nothings and fraudsters, she was one of the hardest workers I know.

With public insult and cruelty. Wholly unnecessary, but that’s where we are. The whole country feels like a hostile workplace right now. Is a hostile workplace and getting worse. She’s in a lot of pain and in good company.

Love the one you’re with, dump the one you’re not with.

Bet you’ve been there.

This article is about the big life losses; death, disease, aging, loss of job, loss of income, divorce, disaster, all those things which cause us terrible pain and vulnerability.

If you’re at least forty you’ve already been through a few. Unless you were extremely unlucky. If you’ve gotten this far unscathed, what’s happening now and coming later are going to be very challenging indeed.