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Reinventing Yourself in Your 60s: A Life-Changing Choice
Reinventing yourself in your 60s doesn’t come with a manual. There’s no timeline, no five-year plan template, no one telling you it’s “on track.” I know, because I’m doing it right now, in real time, without a map.
Last year, I left the Bronx. Not a small move — I’d lived there long enough to know exactly why I needed to leave, and I moved into a roommate situation instead. At an age when a lot of people are settling in, I was starting over. I gave away the majority of my belongings in the process. Not because I was decluttering for fun — I kept the bare minimum on purpose, so I wouldn’t have to pay for storage on a life I wasn’t sure I was coming back to. When you strip your life down to what fits in a few boxes, you find out fast what actually matters and what was just… there.
Around the same time, I made a decision that had been quietly building for years: I was going to become a Health & Wellness Coach. I enrolled in a program at KGR Health and Wellness Academy, and it turned out to be one of the richest learning experiences I’ve had — not just professionally, but personally. I studied harder than I have in a long time. I sat for my Board certification exam. And now I’m in the strange, suspended place of waiting — six weeks until I know the result — while I plot my next steps anyway, because waiting was never going to…
