ISTP Empty Nest: What Nobody Tells You About Freedom
The first Saturday after my youngest left for college, I woke up at my usual 6 AM, made coffee, and…
The first Saturday after my youngest left for college, I woke up at my usual 6 AM, made coffee, and…
The house got quieter in stages. First, my oldest left for college, then two years later my youngest. Each departure…
For ENTJs navigating the empty nest transition, your entire world suddenly becomes unfamiliar territory. You’ve spent years building systems, managing…
Three years managing a community nonprofit taught me something uncomfortable about being an ESFJ approaching forty. The board meeting I’d…
The executive presenting to the board wasn’t the same person who led that department twenty years ago. Something fundamental had…
Thirty-seven years old, and I was staring at a spreadsheet with something besides dread. The numbers weren’t poetry. They weren’t…
At fifty-two, watching younger ENTJs charge through meetings with the same relentless Te I once wielded, I recognize something they…
A client once told me he spent his twenties proving himself smarter than everyone else. At thirty-eight, he realized nobody…
Forty arrives with a particular clarity that younger versions of ourselves could never have predicted. For ISTPs, this milestone often…