Pretirement: 10 Things I Learned When I Quietly Checked Out (GenX Women)

Описание: Save your seat for Permission to Pause, How to Design Your Pretirement: https://stan.store/amypalmer/p/permis...

So many GenX women have been telling me the same thing:
“I’m exhausted.”
“I’m just going through the motions.”
“I don’t know how much longer I can keep pushing.”

In this extended episode of Your GenX Big Sister, I’m sharing 10 lessons I learned when I quietly checked out~ what I now call pretirement. Not quitting. Not giving up. But listening to my body, easing up on over-functioning, and redesigning my life before burnout forced the issue.

Pretirement isn’t a failure.
It’s a signal.
And it’s a practice.

⏱️ The 10 Lessons From Pretirement
0:00 – Why GenX Women Are Quietly Checking Out
5:30 – Lesson 1: Checking Out Didn’t Feel Like Relief at First
8:45 – Lesson 2: My Body Checked Out Before My Brain Did
12:30 – Lesson 3: Burnout Wasn’t the Problem, Over-Functioning Was
16:30 – Lesson 4: I Was Grieving a Life I Thought I’d Have
20:15 – Lesson 5: Checking Out Revealed How Much Was Optional
23:45 – Lesson 6: I Confused Rest With Falling Behind
27:15 – Lesson 7: Shame Kept Me Pushing Past My Limits
30:45 – Lesson 8: I Didn’t Realize How Much of My Work Was Performance
34:15 – Lesson 9: Pretirement Forced Me to Redefine Purpose
38:00 – Lesson 10: The Future Became a Design Question, Not a Finish Line
41:30 – What to Do With This Awareness
43:00 – Permission to Pause (A Gentle Next Step)

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