Don't Let Fear Keep You From Making Senior Living Plans

I started my own business at almost 62 years old. Single woman in a world that for the most part doesn't focus on our experience only our wrinkles.

Left a good salary. Walked away from the familiar. Entered an industry where I knew almost no one except my dear friend Nancy Ferraro who brought me to a PRN meeting.

The fear? Overwhelming.

Every day I counsel families whose parents are facing their own terrifying transition: leaving their home, letting go of possessions accumulated over decades, moving to assisted living or memory care. And it isn't only the parents who are afraid, the adult children are too.

And you know what I tell them?

"I understand that fear. I'm living it too."

The unknown income. The unfamiliar territory. The letting go of what was comfortable.

But here's what I've learned in both my journey and theirs:

Fear of the unknown doesn't mean the unknown is bad. It just means it's NEW.

I'm thriving in my new business. And your mom? Your dad? They can thrive too.

Sometimes the thing we're most afraid of becomes the thing that sets us free.

If you're watching a parent resist help because they're scared, I get it. I've been scared too.

But I also know...on the other side of that fear? There's possibility. Connection. Purpose. Joy. Freedom.

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