{"id":12047,"date":"2024-08-29T15:15:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T15:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=12047"},"modified":"2024-08-29T15:28:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T15:28:12","slug":"a-life-review-can-be-powerful-at-any-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=12047","title":{"rendered":"A \u2018Life Review\u2019 Can Be Powerful, at Any Age"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Reflecting on the past, through writing or conversation, can help us better appreciate where we are \u2014 and where we\u2019re going.<\/p>\n

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Jodi Wellman was devastated when her mother died of a heart attack at age 58. Cleaning out her apartment made her feel even worse. Drawers and closets overflowed with abandoned projects: unpublished manuscripts and business cards for ventures that had never gotten started.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy mom was a wake-up call for me,\u201d Ms. Wellman said. \u201cShe had these dreams that she didn\u2019t act on.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the time, Ms. Wellman was in her early 30s, living in Chicago and working her way up the corporate rungs at a fitness club chain. But, over the course of five years, that work began to feel empty.<\/p>\n

Determined not to stagnate like her mother, Ms. Wellman quit her job to become an executive coach, eventually entering a master\u2019s degree program in positive psychology. There, she developed a strategy for living fully: Think about death, a lot.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Now also a speaker and the author of \u201cYou Only Die Once,\u201d Ms. Wellman, 48, believes that focusing on how short life is makes you less likely to squander it. To help her clients figure out how to spend their limited time, she asks them dozens of questions, organized by life phase \u2014 things like what activities made them happiest as a child, and what they would change about their 40s and 50s.<\/p>\n

Her approach is a twist on something called \u201clife review,\u201d where people systematically reflect on their past, through conversations or in writing, to identify character strengths and develop self-awareness and acceptance. The process can occur both with a partner or in small groups, and it typically unfolds in six to 10 weekly sessions.<\/p>\n

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Reflecting on the past, through writing or conversation, can help us better appreciate where we are \u2014 and where we\u2019re going.Jodi Wellman was devastated when her mother died of a heart attack at age 58. Cleaning out her apartment made her feel even worse. Drawers and closets overflowed with abandoned projects: unpublished manuscripts and business cards for ventures that had never gotten started.\u201cMy mom was a wake-up call for me,\u201d Ms. Wellman said. \u201cShe had these dreams that she didn\u2019t act on.\u201dAt the time, Ms. Wellman was in her early 30s, living in Chicago and working her way up the corporate rungs at a fitness club chain. But, over the course of five years, that work began to feel empty.Determined not to stagnate like her mother, Ms. Wellman quit her job to become an executive coach, eventually entering a master\u2019s degree program in positive psychology. There, she developed a strategy for living fully: Think about death, a lot.Now also a speaker and the author of \u201cYou Only Die Once,\u201d Ms. Wellman, 48, believes that focusing on how short life is makes you less likely to squander it. To help her clients figure out how to spend their limited time, she asks them dozens of questions, organized by life phase \u2014 things like what activities made them happiest as a child, and what they would change about their 40s and 50s.Her approach is a twist on something called \u201clife review,\u201d where people systematically reflect on their past, through conversations or in writing, to identify character strengths and develop self-awareness and acceptance. The process can occur both with a partner or in small groups, and it typically unfolds in six to 10 weekly sessions.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12049,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12047"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12050,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12047\/revisions\/12050"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}