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Life After School is a bi-monthly podcast created by Jessa. You can find more about Jessa by reading her daily blog at jessa.blog.

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The (midlife) crisis soon expanded from Jaques’ original definition to include practically any inner strife. You could have one because you’d achieved everything you’d intended to, but couldn’t see the point of it all. Or you could have one because you hadn’t achieved enough.

  • What’s fascinating is by thinking that middle age is the pinnacle of our lives, we easily fall into the trap of having the sense of displeasure for not achieving everything good in life in the middle of our lives.
three stages of transition based on the book Life is in the Transitions by Bruce Feiler
“Stages rarely begin and end in a clean way–and that’s perfectly normal. People go in and out of them in highly idiosyncratic patterns.”

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