Iâve had transitions on my mind recently. A lot of clients I work with feel stuck in the middle of a transition they didnât quite anticipate, or that felt thrust upon them, or whose ramifications they just couldnât calculate at the outset of the change.
Marriage, divorce, childbirth, graduating college, losing a job, moving back home: whether positive or negative, transitions can be messy. And they can also give birth to previously unforeseen opportunities for growth.
Therapy is, after all, about change, so I guess it is no surprise that as a therapist I should be witness to transitions galore.
William Bridges, author of a book aptly titled Transitions, writes that moving from here to there involves three distinct stages: endings, the middle ground, and beginnings. He emphasizes that...
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