{"id":895417,"date":"2026-09-14T12:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T12:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/895417\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T12:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T12:50:10","slug":"retirement-can-trigger-an-identity-crisis-but-there-are-ways-to-find-meaning-and-purpose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/895417\/","title":{"rendered":"Retirement can trigger an identity crisis, but there are ways to &#8216;find meaning and purpose&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many of us spend considerable time and energy building a career \u2014 but nobody teaches us how to step back from it and craft a rewarding and meaningful retirement, says a Montreal authority on the psychological and social aspects of retirement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe don\u2019t spend much time thinking about how retirement will impact our lives,\u201d said Gillian Leithman, a leadership and organizational development expert whose master\u2019s and doctoral research focused on retirement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And we should.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many of us spend considerable time and energy building a career \u2014 but nobody teaches us how to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":895418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[45,49,48,133,131,132],"class_list":["post-895417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-finance","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/895418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}