by Guillermo Vidal | Aug 10, 2020 | Aging Well
I will never again experience the level of emotional pain I suffered the day I saw my parents disappear into the Cuban horizon as the plane I was on sped towards Miami from Havana. Starting my American life as an orphan in a Colorado orphanage was rough. Yet,...
by Guillermo Vidal | May 27, 2020 | Aging Well
One thing is sure about life transitions, especially those that include the loss of a job, a home or a spouse, they can leave you feeling like you have been body slammed. Life transitions have made me feel lost and insecure because they required dropping my old...
by Guillermo Vidal | Mar 25, 2020 | Aging Well
As we go through the uncertainty of this period in our lives, it is important that we start thinking about our recovery. Experts know the recovery effort can be just as difficult as enduring the hardest part of any devastating event. It is not too early to start...
by Guillermo Vidal | Feb 17, 2020 | Aging Well
Aging is a natural part of life. Whether a newborn or a sexagenarian, you are growing older by the second. But aging does not have to be passive or unconscious, you can determine the quality of the way you age. It is a matter of mastering what life gives you in a way...
by Guillermo Vidal | Feb 5, 2020 | Aging Well
Even with the best intentions not to do it, I often pass judgement on people, situations and myself. This is an old habit that has been hard to break and whose net result often leads me to self-loathing and discouragement. Our shadow self As I continue the...
by Guillermo Vidal | Jan 29, 2020 | Aging Well
Unless you have been living in isolation in some monastery hidden deep in Nepal, you know there are people in this world we don’t belong with. Nobody warned us about this when we were young. In fact, we were taught the opposite. My parents, for example, taught me as a...
