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65 years old to death. This stage is when you ponder if your life truly has meaning or not. I believe that choosing to be at peace with your decisions in life will only make this part easier. Being a good human is important and should not be taken lightly. But also, if you don't end up having some regrets in life, did you truly ever live?

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40-65 Years of age. This stage involves maintaining the things that may outlive us. I can see this in the way I take care of my children, and how one day they will outlive me and start families of their own. I can sense this stage in the plants that I take care of and the trees that I have planted. It feels comforting to know a piece of me will still be left even when my physical body is no longer present.

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18-40 years of age. This stage is when relationships with meaning and intimacy are forming. This is the stage I got married in, at 23. I fell in love with a childhood friend and rekindled our relationship in our early 20s. Then began our journey as husband and wife and also bringing two little boys into the world together. I made the choice of intimacy over isolation.

"Each stage builds on the preceding one." (13, CHILD)

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Ages 12-18. I began to find independence and started to understand a sense of self. After, going through hard teen years I began to realize where my worth lay and how I was to choose how to view myself. It was a very confusing time, but now looking back, I am thankful for the hardships I faced and how they formed me into the woman I am today.

"Cliquishness and intolerance of differences, both hallmarks of adolescence, are defenses against identity confusion." (336, CHILD)

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Ages 6-11. Starting to develop more self-worth. This however also welcomes the opinion of others and how those influenced how I viewed myself.

"If children are unable to obtain praise of others or lack motivation and self-esteem they may develop a low self-esteem." (275, CHILD)

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Begins around ages 3-5. This stage starts when you realize how much more power and control you have in the world. Even though when I was this age my world maybe wasn't that big yet, it sure did feel like it. And I was able to make choices that gave me power and the ability to make decisions.

"This conflict marks a split between two personalities, the part that remains a child, and a desire to test new powers." 210, CHILD

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From 18 months to 3 years old. This stage begins by learning to have a sense of self-control in one's life. I can picture my three-year-old self learning to not react when someone does something I may not like, but hopefully being able to tell a trusted adult. Or perhaps I could have reacted in a way that wouldn't have been seen as "okay" even if it were developmentally normal. But I had a choice to make and hopefully chose autonomy.

"If you feel alone and uncertain, you can still develop autonomy." (13, CHILD)

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This stage is around birth to 18 months. This usually consists of how someone may start to view the world. For example, how did I view the things around me as a baby? And how those predisposed scenarios have most likely affected my adolescent/adult life. How I will view how people treat me and who I can begin to know has the best intentions.

"Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure." Erik Erikson