I'm Starting Over at 55

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🗓️ 5 March 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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With her twins grown up and living on their own, Desi feels like she has no direction. Searching for advice? Call 1-800-DR-LAURA / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment at DrLaura.com

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0:00.0	Thanks for downloading my call of the day podcast. You too can participate in my live radio program
0:06.8	heard weekdays from 2 to 5 p.m. Eastern time on Sirius XM Triumph 1111. Desi, welcome to the program.
0:14.8	Hi, Dr Laura, I was just saying that I enjoy your program and thank you for all your
0:18.9	insightful information.
0:20.8	As it relates to why I'm calling, I, when I was younger, adopted a set of twins at the age of two.
0:28.6	Their grandmother was dying and I was presented with the opportunity to adopt them and I did. I was very young and I was single and I was I think at the prime of my career.
0:43.6	I have had to make a lot of sacrifices
0:47.0	throughout the years to raise them.
0:49.8	They're now 22 years old, they're thriving, but I'm now at a point in my life where I've lost so many years to
0:57.6	invest in myself and my education and my career until I feel like I'm starting over at 55 years old and I still
1:10.3	not and not and not and. Not and.
1:14.0	Three not ends.
1:16.0	Yes, you're starting over.
1:18.0	So you're not dead.
1:19.0	What's the alternative?
1:21.0	You finished parenting. Now you can do something else. You're not
1:25.4	starting over really. I shouldn't have said yes you are. You're not starting
1:29.1	over. You're just on the next chapter. First you did a lot of sacrificing to help these kids and now you've
1:36.0	now you have time you're not dead you're healthy and you can do something else.
1:46.3	Wow, that's a great way to look at it.
1:48.3	But that's the truth. I do feel like a failure, so I struggle with feeling like a failure
1:52.2	every day.
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