March 17, 2021 by Annabelle Gurwitch · Personal Development

Identity Crisis? Who Me? Alas, None of Us Is Immune

In an excerpt from her eagerly awaited book You're Leaving When?, Annabelle Gurwitch contemplates who she is now that she's no longer a spouse/mother/caregiver (or rabid recycler).

**Copyright © 2021 by Annabelle Gurwitch, from You're Leaving When?: Adventures in Downward Mobility. Excerpted by permission of Counterpoint Press.**

There are times in our lives when the story we tell ourselves about who we are no longer matches up to the story we are actually living. At fifty-five, I wasn’t sure who I was anymore.

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