Garden Spot Communities Presents: Purpose In Retirement

EP # 51: Understanding Life Backward and The Key to Moving Forward: Season Recap

In this final episode of this season, we step back to discuss the course as a whole and learn that by sharing your memories and hearing their original intentions, you can facilitate deep understanding and mutual appreciation, as well as healing in your current relationships. We also learn that wisdom is not something you "earn" through a course, but something you learn to access by listening to your own life experiences.

EP #50: We're Not That Different: What College Students Learned from 65-Year-Olds

Janie Martin and Marianna Mancini-Menditto discuss their realization that despite being different ages and having varied life experiences, they share commonalities. They discovered that all humans experience good, bad, and insecurities, showing that no matter what age you are, there is something to learn from everyone, and that wisdom spans across generations.

EP #49: Synthesizing a Lifetime: How Jim & Judy Used New Frameworks to Process Old Memories

Jim and Judy Shelly utilized the concept of through lines to explore their life story, recognizing faith, travel, and nursing as persisting themes. Together they learned how to use their gifts for ministry, allowing their talents and strengths to be blessings to others. The Wisdom course helped bring those realizations to life and allowed them to be grateful for the impact they had, and provided frameworks on how to move forward with those realizations.

EP #48: The Secret Gifts Hidden in Your Hardest Moments

Discover the unexpected "gifts" you receive during times of disorientation, such as new resilience or deeper self-awareness. Scott shares how difficult pivots, like being unable to run anymore, can open doors to new skills like painting. What would happen if you take some time and try to identify the learning that comes along with challenging experiences?

EP #47: Don't Throw It Out: Reinterpreting Your Past Experiences for a Stronger Foundation

The wisdom course doesn't require rejecting the past, but rather reinterpreting it and seeing life from a new, constructive perspective. Dave Givens recognizes that the foundational structures of his constructed world provided him with a firm foundation. The course has helped him process life events and see the "bigger picture," which he then uses to help others