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A seven-question survey to reveal identity loss and start your midlife reinvention

For Men After 50 — feeling like you’re playing a role instead of living your life? This episode of Midlife Man Rising helps answer a simple question: Is this your life…or someone else’s?

I’m Nelson Pahl, an experiential psychologist that helps midlife men reclaim identity, face hidden identity loss, and begin true personal reinvention. In this episode I walk you through a quick, clear 7-question survey that exposes whether you’re living a borrowed life...and gives you the honest signal you need to start changing course.

Topics in this Episode

• Male Role Expectations Impact Self-Expression (0:53)
• Men After 50 Often Live by Societal Conformity (1:07)
• 7-Question Self-Survey for Men After 50 (1:57)
• What Your “Yes” Answers Mean (3:31)

Healing Links

28-Day Challenge: Resurrection Camp

Supporting Links

Empirical Research: Masculinity & Social Conformity Pressures
Empirical Research : Male Role Conformity and Mental Health

Next Episode: Men After 50: Breaking Free from Your Father's Expectations (Midlife Resurrection Series - Part 5)

About the Host

Nelson Pahl, Ph.D. is an experiential psychologist that helps midlife men move from midlife crisis depression to midlife reinvention. Through his proprietary approaches — Resurrection Camp, the Six Stones Retreat Arc, and his Legacy Lab — he guides men after 50 through identity loss, midlife transformation, and personal reinvention.

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