Without realizing it, you’re choosing your way to a life that may or may not be the life you want to live. But before you gloss over that sentence … it’s not just the big important choices we make that define our lives. Take it from me, the little 8-year-old girl who stood at the…
In her poem, Life’s Rainbow, Sheila Banani describes life as colorful beginnings, middles and endings. “Beginnings are lacquer red fired hard in the kiln of hot hope; Middles, copper yellow in sunshine, sometimes oxidize green with tears; but Endings are always indigo before we step on the other shore.” Sheila Banani, Life’s Rainbow, in When…
The middle of anything can be messy work, and we soon learn that while it’s uncomfortable, life is built in the transitions. In the middle of life, these transitions seem less predictable, harder than many of us anticipate. We know that changes will come, and mostly we expect them to be slow and gradual. We…
Are you a “next phase lost soul,” caught between phases of life? Throughout our lives, each of us experiences many transitions. Change brings both opportunity and anxiety, and sometimes a wealth of other emotions. In his work about navigating transitions, William Bridges wrote about The Neutral Zone, a reorientation phase between an ending and a…
Have you found yourself navigating a series of unexpected events? Sometimes even a single unexpected event can have wide-reaching implications in our lives. We often find ourselves navigating change in the middle adulthood phase. When life stacks up challenges, we’re often very good at reacting to the curveballs. We need to adapt to change, often…