Letting Go in Retirement…

Robin Lea Laurain
2 min readAug 2, 2023

How do you let go of what has defined you most of your life?

Good question and I have no idea on how to do it yet.

My entire life I said I was going to retire at 62. I wanted to retire early and travel, write, take pictures of exotic things in exotic places, etc. I retired at 62 and I find myself mourning a loss. Although I am glad that I don’t have to stand on my feet for 12- hours and work dangerously short staffed anymore, I miss that rat race.

I miss helping my patients and helping them achieve wonderful outcomes or die with…

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Robin Lea Laurain

Retired travel nurse, politician, multi-generational grandmother, Green Party, activist, writer, anti-war, #BDS