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Mid Life Crisis – what does it actually mean?

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[podcast src=”https://html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/24551598/height/360/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/484848/” width=”100%” scrolling=”no” class=”podcast-class” frameborder=”0″ placement=”top” primary_content_url=”http://traffic.libsyn.com/4aa7e0ae-44af-4eb3-b873-3ecf634b537c/MUMD_Ep_2_MIXED_FINAL.mp3″ libsyn_item_id=”24551598″ height=”360″ theme=”custom” custom_color=”484848″ player_use_thumbnail=”use_thumbnail” use_download_link=”” download_link_text=”Download Episode!” /] This episode is all about identifying what the term midlife crisis actually means. What’s the actual age of a midlife crisis? Are we all destined to have one, regardless of what we have achieved in life? Is it just a natural part of human development or “growing up”? This is how Wikipedia, defines it: A midlife crisis is a transition of identity and self-confidence that can occur in middle-aged individuals, typically 45 to 65 years old. The phenomenon is described as a psychological crisis brought about by events that highlight a person’s growing age, inevitable mortality, and possibly lack of accomplishments in life.  This may produce feelings of intense depression, remorse, and high levels of anxiety, or the desire to achieve youthfulness or make drastic changes to their current lifestyle or feel the

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Episode One – Intro to our podcast Man Up / Man Down

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David and Volker were introduced by a mutual colleague and really hit it off. Despite working on an unrelated project, they spent a lot of time discussing how much life had changed during the pandemic and how it had exacerbated and accelerated many of life’s challenges. David felt like he was going through, what he could only describe as, “a post-pandemic slump”. However, he had also noticed off-hand comments from friends and colleagues which suggested they were going through a similar experience.  Maybe not full-blown breakdowns but there just seemed an undercurrent of exhaustion and low-level depression. And the more David and Volker discussed this the more they realised that this was as much related to where they were in life, the dreaded “middle age”, as the impact of lockdown and the pandemic. The more David and Volker got sidetracked by these discussions, the more they felt that they should

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