Articles by Freedom in Later Life
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What Happens to the Dreams You Never Followed?
I dreamed of becoming a barrister at seventeen. Life chose differently, and it took me decades to work out what that old dream was really trying to tell me.
Have You Become the Person You Were Expected to Be?
A chance conversation with one of my students became a reflection on identity, authenticity and how easily we lose ourselves while trying to fit into the world.
Carl Jung on the Unlived Life After 50
Carl Jung's idea of the unlived life is one of the most useful frames for the second half. What he meant by the shadow, what becomes hard to ignore at fifty.