ADAPTING TO TRANSITIONS

Transitions – Life is full of them

Has your heart been shattered into a million pieces, you worry how you will survive the days ahead, or wonder how you will ever find love again?

Have you recently lost your job? Your future feels uncertain, and fear grips you like an iron-clad glove.

Have you recently lost a loved one and are finding it hard to go on without them?

Have you recently relocated? Making new connections is proving difficult if not impossible.

Many people are thrown into difficult transitions, which require them being able to adapt and change to the new circumstances. When transitions are causing stress, anxiety, or depression, the help of a trained therapist can help you get to where you need to be.

Natural Transitions

Just like nature cycles through seasons of change and transformation, we humans transition through psychological and physical states of transformation throughout our lives. These transformations are a natural and inevitable part of evolution.

Surviving life’s transitions follow us the moment we are born to the moment we die. Along the way we make the normal anticipated life transitions from childhood to adolescence, adolescence to adulthood, single to married, and career to retirement.

In between, there are many other different transitions, sometimes unexpected, challenging us, our identities, and forcing us to re-invent ourselves over again.

Any transition good or bad, can create stress, fear, and anxiety. Expected transitions such as getting married changes your identity from single to a partner, and having a child changes your sense of identity from wife and daughter, to that of a mother. These changes affect our sense of who we are in the world and in relationship to others – and require an adjustment period.

Unexpected Transitions

It is the unexpected transitions that can be the most difficult to adjust to. The loss of a job, death of a loved one, accident, or a divorce can throw us into momentary crisis. We have a hard time letting go of the pieces of ourselves that we must give up because the situation has changed. We are forced to re-invent ourselves. Our world has turned upside down.

Transitions pull us out of our comfort zone and interrupt the status quo. Life scenarios and transitions summon us to change, which is one of the hardest things to do. During transitions our circumstances, needs, desires, and behaviors must change and evolve, or we risk eroding our personal levels of well-being and fulfillment in life.

Therapy can help you adjust and grow

When life’s transitions prove difficult and lead to stress, anxiety, or depression, a skilled therapist can help you explore coping mechanisms to help navigate the change and move through it to a new opportunity for growth and a new beginning.

When you face difficulty, there is an opportunity to find a way to resolve it and learn from the experience. Let me help you transform the stress of your adjustment to an opportunity for acceptance, growth, and fulfillment.

If you are struggling with getting to where you want to ‘get to,’ or you just want to get there faster, therapy can help. Call me to discuss how I can help you, or fill out the contact form below.