Life Transition Coaching

Not all changes we experience on this wild ride called life are transitions.  Changes generally mean there is something different in our external environment...but we can change jobs, change careers, change relationships, home, schools and move across the country thousands of miles away, and the old adage is true "wherever you go, there you are".  Transitions are deeper, more internal, more personal, and happen when our sense of self, our identity is transformed in some way. So changes are not always transitions, and with some transitions, there are sometimes no visible life changes.

When we experience life's inevitable transitions, there is a gap between the "old" (what we knew) and the "new" (what is unfolding or becoming) and navigating this empty space of the unknown, this fertile void, can be very challenging, painful, exhilarating and exhausting. 

​I am here to help.

I will serve as your guide and navigator through this new, unknown territory. We will discover your key strengths and talents that will start to serve as your core identity. We will explore a few "maps" of transition, to take away some of the confusion and unknown, as you start to see the bigger picture of this process, and will then start to feel a sense of direction. We will identify specific places to start, to focus on, to serve as guideposts, each week.  

And together we will navigate gently and intentionally to a life that is more aligned with who are!

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External Transitions

External transitions means that something in your life has changed, that is clearly visible, and also affecting your core sense of identity, leaving you feel lost and overwhelmed. And the rest of the world can understand why.

However, in this culture, we tend to underestimate the intensity and power of transitions, and remain obsessed with the "new" and "what's next", not acknowledging the loss that comes with even the most welcome transitions. 

Whether transitions are planned and welcomed (such as marriage, a new baby, graduating) or unexpected and unwelcomed (such as a loss), every transitions carries grief, as well as hope, loss as well as new learning, periods of confusion as well as moments of new clarity.

Some examples of these external transitions include (but are not limited to):

• marriage
• divorce
• becoming a parent
• graduating from school or a program
• losing a loved one
• retirement 
• loss of job
• new career 

Internal Transitions

There are times in our lives where we experience an internal transition, where something powerful, fundamental and meaningful is transforming, without any visible external changes.  These transitions can be challenging because the rest of the world, including your own community, will not recognize the magnitude of what you're going through. And transformations that we experience can threaten and challenge those closest to us, by challenging the status quo.  We start to change, see things differently, need different things, react differently etc, and this can feel unsettling to those around us. 

Some examples of Internal Transitions can include (but are not limited to):

• personal growth
• spiritual crisis and/or loss of faith

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
~Rainer Maria Rilke