Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes

By reading this koob, you will learn to better manage the challenging but necessary inner transformations that launch you towards new beginnings.

You will also discover:

• Coping mechanisms for difficult, painful, and confusing times of transition

• How to think about "why" personal transitions occur

• Tools for establishing a personal understanding of transitions

• Identifying features of how transitions impact work and relationships

• How a transition is structured and experienced from the personal perspective

Understanding personal transitions is about understanding the natural paths of development that occur in your life. These transitional developments include significant periods of disorientation and reorientation that mark pivotal turning points in your personal growth. All personal transitions begin with an “ending,” entering a neutral zone, or “inbetweenness,” and lead to a new beginning. Within these three stages lies great diversity since transitions are inherently personal processes. However, you’ll find a few rules always apply to be able to ride them out.