Loss, Grief, and Life Transitions

“Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require
not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.”
– Martha Beck, ‘Growing Wings: The Power of Change’, 2003

 

Change you wanted.

Change is something you waited and worked for, but you feel let down somehow. The change you wanted is here, but you keep asking yourself the same question a thousand times – now what?

All you feel right now is anxiety, sadness, confusion, and irritability. You know you’re supposed to be happy, but you wonder if you made a mistake. Maybe this isn’t what you wanted after all.

Change comes in many forms as you transition through life. Perhaps you changed careers or received a promotion. These changes seem positive and should make you feel happy. Right? But for some reason, they don’t.

Marriage, a baby, a newly purchased home are happy events – you should be happy!

Retired, downsized, remodeled, went back to school, finished school, started a business, or sold a business – these are happy events – why aren’t you happy?

Change you definitely did not want.

There is no doubt that you did not want negative change to happen because some losses are hard to bear.

One day, your life was on course, and the next day, it felt like the puzzle got flipped upside down and the pieces scattered everywhere.

Someone you love died or left, you lost your job – you’ve survived the worst of it but are still left with no direction, no sense of who you are anymore.

Grief from your loss is a constant companion, and you don’t know the way forward.

Change creates complications.

Loss and grief, change and transition present challenges that disrupt your life as you knew it.

Whether you want the change or not – life is full of all types of changes and uncertainties.

Those uncertainties make you question whether you are up to dealing with the change – causing you to feel lost and overwhelmed.

Going alone as you face changes in your life makes it challenging to find your way back to the happiness you want and deserve.

Let’s work together to help you find your way back.

Meeting significant transitions in life is not easy, especially if they cause grief and uncertainties about the future. Dealing with these times in your life is where I can help.

I will help you identify what got lost in the transition, and we’ll work together to find new ways to meet your needs.

Each person processes change and transitions differently. We will develop an approach that helps you get beyond your grief to find happiness again.

Don’t go it alone – life is too short to let loss, grief, and life’s transitions keep you from moving forward happily. Contact me today, and let’s help ease your transitions.

 

“Change is situational. Transition, on the other hand, is psychological. It is not those events, but rather the inner reorientation or self-redefinition that you have to go through in order to incorporate any of those changes into your life. Without a transition, a change is just a rearrangement of the furniture. Unless transition happens, the change won’t work, because it doesn’t ‘take’.”
– William Bridges