Balancing Insight & Action
For a Confident Life
When the wind of change blows there are some who build walls - and others who build windmills. Chinese proverb
Endings - Transitions - New Beginnings
Change happens to us - or we initiate it. Transition, as a result of that change, is our journey from the old to the new. Transitions are chance and challenge: They are a great opportunity to come closer to ourselves, to discover a new aspect of ourselves. At the same time, our very foundation is shaken up...
Deep transitions involve a "neutral zone" between the old and the new where the old is lost but something new has not yet emerged. Some describe this time as a journey through the "wilderness" or even like a trip to a "waste land". If this is where you find yourself, I offer a place to rest and to reflect, a space where it is safe to notice what comes up for you. Much will unfold from there.
Times of transition can be deeply challenging as familiar sources of strength and comfort have broken away.
- One focus of transition coaching is to find and develop sources that bring patience, comfort, presence, and acceptance.
- Another focus of this work aims at acknowledging the various ways in which you resist transition - and to gently balance ways to be with what is and to take steps that reflect the new realities.
Change may be immediate - transition takes time:
"Change is a situational shift. Most people do not resist change. Transition is the way with which we all come to terms with change..."
"When we resist transition, we resist one or more of the three phases of its makeup:
- We may resist letting go of the old.
- We may resist the confusion of the in-between neutral zone.
- We may resist the uncertainties of making a risky new beginning."
From "The way of transition"