It sometimes feels as if life consists of one transition after another – from career shifts and relocations to relationship changes, health challenges, or processing loss. These moments can feel overwhelming, yet with the right support, they can become tremendous growth opportunities.
As I mention in my article, Breaking the Cycle of Repeated Life Transitions, Changes and Challenges, simply enduring life transitions without extracting their meaning is the surest way to guarantee you’ll face the same fundamental challenges again… and again… and again.
That’s why I’m introducing a new daily, or on alternate days or at least weekly, practice to help you mine each life transition, so that you don’t have to repeat these transitions again and again:
I’m calling it the Mid-Chaos Memos, and I hope, in a very small way, I will help you cope with whatever crisis life has decided you need to “benefit” from at the moment.
“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 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
You’ll find these touchpoints on both Instagram and LinkedIn, where you’ll also find my “Inspiring Quotes” series, to help you process your experiences.
My hope is that these moments of inspiration and reflection will become part of your support system, helping you through life’s various changes.
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If you are currently facing a major life transition or any other dramatic change in your circumstances, and you have no idea how you are going to cope, the good news is that the strategy presented in this book can help you, step by step, to improve your ability to handle the stress caused by change, even if you feel entirely powerless at the moment.
“I am an experienced medical doctor – MBChB, MRCGP, NLP master pract cert, Transformational Life Coach (dip.) Life Story Coach (cert.) Stress Counselling (cert.) Med Hypnotherapy (dip.) and EAGALA (cert.) I may have an impressive number of letters after my name, and more than three decades of professional experience, but what qualifies me to excel at what I do is my intuitive understanding of my clients’ difficulties and my extensive personal experience of managing major life changes using strategies I developed over many years.” Dr M Montagu
