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How to rebuild meaning after career loss

I lost my job three months ago at fifty-eight and I feel like my whole identity was tied to work and now I do not know who I am.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Late-career displacement fractures identity when professional role has been the primary source of existential grounding.

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