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Today's Booming Bites: August 12, 2025

From building strength at any age to finding joy in nostalgia and navigating the complexities of multigenerational retirement, today’s Booming Bites is all about living well, staying strong, and making choices that keep your future bright.
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Things to Consider to Successfully Age in Place

The vast majority of Canadians would like to age in their own homes. But to successfully do this, there are some physical aspects of our homes that we should consider to ensure that we will be able to successfully age in place. 
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When Forever Fades: Nothing Is Never Quite As It Seems

Lately, life keeps reminding me how we usually get things wrong, how easily we misread situations and the people around us.
Purpose

Ask a Retirement Coach: How Do I Rebuild My Sense of Self-Worth in Retirement?

How can I rebuild a sense of self-worth in this next chapter—one that isn’t tied to my old title or achievements? Retirement Coach Toni shares her advice.
Relationships

Caregiving from a Distance: The Navigation of Guilt and Logistics

My mother loved her home and community and was completely against making any changes to her living arrangements. How would we manage care from a distance?
Opinion

Can We Predict Our "Sliding Door" Moments?

A "sliding door moment" refers to a pivotal moment in your life when a small decision or action may lead to a significant, often unpredictable result. Are these sliding door situations strictly random or are there ways to know?
Relationships

Ask a Retirement Coach: How do I Learn How to Receive?

After spending a lifetime giving, it's hard to shift gears and learn how to receive. How can we do this? This was the question posed to Retirement Lifestyle Coach Toni.
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Overwhelmed by Home Maintenance? Suggestions to Help You Age in Place with Perspective

The majority of people would like to age in their own homes however home maintenance and repairs can sometimes feel overwhelming. Dr. Stephen Golant shares some suggestions on how we can keep our perspective.
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A Few Well Tailored Thoughts

What we choose to wear can often be judged - especially as we get older. But are we the ones who are actually judging? And should we care?
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Ask a Retirement Coach: How Do I Stop My Constant Need to be Productive?

For many of us, our past taught us to link productivity with value. So when retirement comes along our natural instinct is to stay busy. How can we find better balance? Retirement Coach Toni provides some suggestions.
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Retirement Matters: Why It's Time to Reimagine Life After Full-Time Work

When planning for retirement, financial considerations typically take centre stage. Yet research consistently demonstrates that non-financial factors are often more important in determining whether someone has a good retirement. Now is the time to reimagine what retirement can really be.
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Ask a Retirement Coach: Why Am I Feeling Unfulfilled in Retirement?

In retirement, we often believe if we're financially stable we should have no reason to feel unfulfilled but retirement is much more than just about money.
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Ask a Retirement Coach: How Do I Get Unstuck?

Many people imagine that retirement would bring a new sense of freedom and energy—but instead, can feel stuck. Find out what advice Retirement Coach Toni shares to deal with this.
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Is Social Rewilding in Your Future?

Do you know what social rewilding is? It's a trending movement of people wishing to rebalance their relationship with technology and reconnect with both nature and each other. Is this for you?
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Defining Your Retirement Lifestyle: Things to Consider When Retiring in Another Country

Many people dream of retiring in another country they have visited on vacation. But just because you loved it while on vacation, may not mean you will love it in retirement.
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One of the Paradoxes of Retirement: Shifting from Time Scarcity to Time Affluence

As we transition into retirement, a striking shift starts to occur; we begin to move from a life of time scarcity to one of time affluence. While this change may seem like a dream come true, our new reality can often be more complicated than that. 
Relationships

Ask a Retirement Coach: How Do I Protect My Retirement Time While Being a Caregiver?

Many people envision retirement as the long-awaited moment to shift the focus back to themselves. But what happens when you find yourself becoming a caregiver instead?
Life

6 Top Tips to Successfully (Un)Retire

Carl Landau has successfully (un)retired and shares his top 6 tips to help others do the same.
Purpose

Ask a Retirement Coach: Why do people keep saying I need to have purpose?

There is lots of discussion regarding the importance of having a purpose in retirement. But what if you're happy just doing what your doing?
Life

Ask a Retirement Coach: What Did You Learn in Your Own Retirement Transition?

This week in our Ask a Retirement Coach series, Retirement Coach Toni switched seats and shares insights of what she discovered was important in her own first year of retirement.
Health

Ask a Retirement Coach: I Know I Should Exercise But Am Finding It Hard to Do

Often one of the first things people plan to do in retirement is exercise. But sometimes it doesn't work out that way. Retirement Coach Toni shares her advice on how to get going.
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The Shifting Trends in Later Life Rituals: Retirement Parties and Funerals 

Later in life, two of the most significant life experiences is often retirement and death. But given changing social behaviours and attitudes, the traditional rituals we used to have surrounding these milestones are now being transformed. 
Opinion

Sensitive Matters: Understanding and Accepting Our Sensitivity

The term "highly sensitive person" is used to describe individuals who deeply absorb and process their surroundings, often leading to heightened emotional responses and an acute sensitivity. This is often perceived as being a bad thing, is it actually a strength?
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Ask a Retirement Coach: How Do I Create a Happy and Meaningful Retirement?

Everyone would like to make sure that they have a happy and meaningful retirement, but how do you actually do this? Retirement Coach Toni shares her advice.
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Clearing Your Life's Clutter

Does your life feel cluttered? Not just with stuff, but also with your personal affairs? Then this should interest you. Retirement and Clutter Clearing Coach Lori Becker joins us to discuss her new book - Get a Grip - and how it can help you organize and declutter your life.