Celebrate Retirement: The Freedom and the Frustrations

by Wicke Chambers, Cheryl Stephenson

When business women Wicke Chambers and Cheryl Stephenson couldn’t find a book to help them with the lifestyle issues they faced in retirement, they wrote the book themselves. Celebrate Retirement, the Freedom and the Frustrations, not only shines a light into the nooks and crannies of retirement, it contains 25 exercises to help readers work through the transition. Published by Winslow Press – Celebrate Retirement, the Freedom and the Frustrations – is a 151 page workbook for current retirees, employees approaching retirement, and for spouses, friends and families who are welcoming home a new retiree. "By retirement, most people have their finances in order. It’s the lifestyle issues that they trip over," according to Chambers, retired entrepreneur and co-author of the book. "Many retirees --- and their spouses -- suffer in silence over losing their identity, figuring out how to fill their time, finding meaningful activities, and adjusting to either full-time matrimony or a full-time single life." Chambers and co-author Stephenson, who retired early after years of corporate life, discovered this through personal experience and through talking with other retired executives who participated in five years of "Reinventing Retirement" classes the authors taught at the Emory University Academy for Retired Professionals. Written by retirees for retirees, Celebrate Retirement, the Freedom and the Frustrations, offers an authentic voice on the retirement transition.

151 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2005