At 60, I started a university psychology degree and graduated four years later with an 86.5% average — a world away from studying at 21. Why age was never really the obstacle.

I have a psychology degree, earned in my sixties. But most of what I know came from walking away from a 35-year faith community, a marriage ending, and a partner's cancer diagnosis. Lived scars, not theory, are what someone else actually needs from you.