The Golfing Counsellor

After decades of measuring success through career milestones, retirement can feel like falling off a cliff. But thriving in retirement doesn't happen automatically - it requires intentional choices. Whether you're newly retired and feeling lost, years into retirement but stuck in survival mode, or planning ahead, there are practical strategies that can help you move from just getting by to living with genuine purpose and satisfaction

Remember how easy it was to make friends at school? You'd sit next to someone new, share your lunch and by afternoon, you were planning weekend adventures together. Fast forward to retirement, and making new friends can feel impossibly complicated. You might wonder where to even meet people, what you'd have in common or whether it's too late to form meaningful new relationships.

some hard truths about our prized and precious things that we are so emotionally attached too; no one wants our stuff. 

Volunteering is an opportunity to increase your friendship groups, get you out of bed in the morning, give you purpose and meaning

Fostering and embracing autonomy is a crucial aspect of avoiding the trap of co-dependence.

Living is more than just being alive, quality of life is so crucial to squeezing the juice out of life as we age

Making new friends in retirement requires a proactive approach, much like hitting the range to improve your golf game. 

A new and innovative approach to capacity building is golf therapy. I am currently taking clients on to the golf courses of the world-famous Melbourne Sandbelt, is there a better place to build capacity, increase social opportunities and strengthen ties to the community?