There comes a time -- sometimes gradually, sometimes suddenly -- when life asks different questions of us.
The ambitions that once propelled you may no longer fit. Roles shift. Bodies change. Careers wind down or end. Children leave. Parents age or die. Time feels different. The future narrows, even as inner life deepens.
Ageing is not only biological. It is existential and spiritual.
Many people experience life transitions as disorienting, even when they appear “normal” or expected. Retirement, empty nesting, illness, becoming a caregiver, or simply reaching a certain age can stir questions that feel both urgent and unspoken.
This is where spiritual direction and spiritual counselling can be profoundly supportive.
Life transitions often dismantle identities we’ve relied on for decades. You may find yourself asking:
Ageing can bring grief—for lost possibilities, for physical vitality, for versions of yourself that no longer exist. It can also bring relief, clarity, and a hunger for depth.
Spiritual direction offers a space to slow down and listen to what is emerging beneath the surface of these changes.
Many wisdom traditions view later life as a threshold—a movement from doing to being, from accumulation to discernment, from proving to understanding.
Yet modern culture often offers little guidance for this transition. Productivity is valued over presence. Youth over wisdom. Forward motion over reflection.
In spiritual direction, we honour ageing not as decline, but as a shift in orientation. A time when meaning is less about achievement and more about integration.
Our work together might explore:
This is not about finding a new “project” to justify your existence. It is about listening for what life is asking of you now.
Life transitions are rarely clean or singular. You may feel gratitude and sadness. Relief and fear. Freedom and loss. Many people judge themselves for these mixed emotions.
Spiritual counselling offers a place where ambivalence is not something to resolve, but something to understand.
We can explore:
Ageing often invites a quieter, deeper kind of courage: the courage to tell the truth about your life, without needing to edit it into something impressive.
One of the gifts—and challenges—of later life is the gradual stripping away of external identities. Titles fade. Roles change. What remains is essence.
Spiritual direction helps you reconnect with that essence:
This work is not religious unless you want it to be. It is spiritual in the sense that it attends to meaning, connection, conscience, and inner life.
Transitions can feel lonely, especially when others expect you to be “fine” or “grateful.” Spiritual direction offers companionship without agenda. Someone to walk with you as you make sense of where you are, and where you are not.
If you are seeking spiritual counselling because ageing, retirement, or life transition has stirred questions you can’t ignore, you are not alone—and you are not late.
This stage of life is not an ending. It is a listening point.
If you are navigating ageing, retirement, or a major life transition and are seeking depth, clarity, and spiritual grounding, spiritual direction may support you in this threshold.
Contact me here to explore working together. I offer virtual support across Ontario, Canada, and across the globe.