The Hidden Side of Retirement: What Nobody Tells You About Identity, Purpose, and Life After Your Career...

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Cheryl Fimbel

The Hidden Side of Retirement

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ISBN: 9798994896204

What Nobody Tells You About Identity, Purpose, and Life After Your Career Ends

Cheryl Fimbel

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Crown Years Media
26 March 2026

Coping with old age; Personal finance; Retirement

You planned for the money. Nobody prepared you for the shock.

Retirement marks the end of a career, but for many people, it also brings the sudden loss of structure, identity, community, and purpose. The first 90 days can feel disorienting and unsettling, even when the finances are solid. You may be financially ready, yet still find yourself awake at 3 a.m., uneasy about how your days now unfold. There's the strange guilt of watching a movie in the middle of a weekday, or standing in your kitchen mid-morning wondering what, exactly, you're supposed to be doing.

For many professionals, retirement doesn't begin with relief. It begins with anxiety. The routines that once anchored your days are gone. Your role disappears overnight. And the question that quietly creeps in, ""Who am I now?"" can be far more destabilizing than expected.

After being unexpectedly forced into retirement following a 45-year career in healthcare leadership, Cheryl Fimbel lived this transition firsthand; the panic attacks, the identity crisis, the 3 a.m. financial fears even when the numbers said she was fine. Drawing from that experience, along with research and professional insight, she wrote the guide she wishes she had during those early months, when everything feels unfamiliar and uncertain.

Inside, you will find practical guidance for preparing emotionally, not just financially, for retirement. The book walks you through the final year of work, ways to test-drive retirement before committing fully, and how to navigate the first 90 days when uncertainty feels overwhelming. You will also find assessments designed to help you understand your readiness for the identity shift, social changes, and loss of daily purpose that often accompany retirement.

Whether your retirement was carefully planned or arrived unexpectedly, The Hidden Side of Retirement helps you steady yourself during the transition, so you can survive those first months, find your footing, and begin building what comes next, on your terms.

By: Cheryl Fimbel
Imprint: Crown Years Media
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 8mm
Weight: 204g
ISBN: 9798994896204
Pages: 140
Publication Date: 26 March 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Cheryl Fimbel understands the emotional upheaval of retirement firsthand. After a 45-year career in healthcare leadership, guiding organizations through major transitions and regulatory change, she now brings that same change-management expertise to helping individuals navigate the psychological challenges of retirement.Cheryl's career began with dual undergraduate degrees in Business Management and Accounting, followed by more than two decades as Director of Accounting and Information Systems at a 300-bed hospital. She later spent 13 years leading ambulatory health systems implementations for a major Houston health system and went on to serve as Director of Quality Informatics for a national physician group. Throughout her career, she specialized in leading teams through complex system implementations and organizational disruption, an experience that deeply informs her approach to retirement transition.As the primary provider for her family, Cheryl's position was unexpectedly eliminated just one year before her planned retirement, only weeks after her mother's death. The anxiety, loss of structure, and identity questions that followed became the foundation for her work addressing the emotional side of retirement that financial planning often overlooks.Drawing on research, data-driven tools, and personal experience, Cheryl developed the assessments and exercises featured in her retirement toolkits. She writes with the warmth of a thoughtful conversation, addressing the real questions retirees face as they redefine purpose and routine.Cheryl lives in North Texas with her husband, Ed, stays closely connected to her family, and continues exploring what it means not just to survive retirement, but to build a life that feels genuinely meaningful-one day at a time.