Nicole Burgess is a licensed psychotherapist and Leadership & Empowerment Coach to passionate high achieving professional women do what they love without sacrificing their personal life.
Nicole brings her knowledge and skills as a psychotherapist for over fifteen years along with her skills from Corporate life to being a small business owner into her coaching services.
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In this episode:
- There are various rituals all over the world that acknowledge, celebrate or reflect transitions in life. (Sometimes referred to as rites of passage.)
- There are graduation ceremonies and open house parties for when your teenage daughter graduates high school
- We have funeral services to celebrate and remember those we loved
- We have rituals around the change in seasons
- Reclaiming parts of yourself through Oracle Cards with Robyn Mourning
- You may feel sadness and loss, which is normal because one chapter in life is closing and another one is opening.
- Nicole shares some personal development she went through
- Transitions involve grieving
- of what you had,
- of expectations that may not have occurred (Rewriting your inner story)
- of moving forward in what is to come
- William Bridges in his book called Transitions states transitions involve an ending, a neutral zone, and a new beginning.
- During the Ending phase
- Disengagement
- Disidentification
- Disenchanted
- Disorientation
- Neutral Zone
- Here you need to surrender
- Allow yourself to go inward (Self-Reflection and Contemplation)
- Explore more of who they are in vs who they think they need to be
- Making a beginning
- “The lesson in all such experience is that when we are ready to make a beginning, we will shortly find an opportunity. The transition process involved an inner realignment and a renewal of energy, both of which depend on immersion in the chaos of the neutral zone.”
- Growth is getting comfortable in the unknown
- During the Ending phase
Rituals:
- Some ways to help with moving forward in the sadness and excitement is talking about it with one another.
- Self-care is important during transition-walks in nature, being with your girlfriends, taking small breaks throughout the day
- Allow yourself to explore or be curious on the other side of the change
- There is an ending and a new beginning
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