Transition, Change and Acceptance
As the season of summer evolves and time passes transitions and change are inevitable. Some changes appear to be beyond our comprehension and yet others are a rare opportunity to do or try something new. The seasons seem to shape our decisions and mark some expected circumstance that generally occurs. Examples of the expected summertime occurrences are: summer barbecues, vacations, and even time for restoration and reflection. At times we may feel behind, and or try to play catch up for the reasons that appear to align with the season’s change. The truth is that since COVID’s sting has stung our existence amidst other pestilences, we often seek to embark on returning to a yesterday and yesteryear that is recent and yet so far for us to reach and or even remember. Our liberty is shaken by decisions of those immune to the facts and or the meaning of freedom, societal tragedies take our breath away and cause trauma to our day-to-day moments when we do the simplest of activities like turning on our television or opening our messages on our smart devices.
What if we were to embrace the moment as an opportune time to worry less and embrace the breath that we have just taken and the next one that comes without our control? Breathing is expected rather than viewed as the gift that is often taken for granted. One may expect the breaths to continue when in fact the struggle to breathe is real and this reality can occur suddenly which creates a struggle, congestion and an interruption of the smooth flow of systematic rhythmic silence of our breath of life. This interruption can happen in a moment, without explanation and or understanding. That is precisely why we must give gratitude for the gift that breathing provides and recognize that change is inevitable. The gift of living affords the opportunity to breathe through the harsh realities with the intent of doing that which will improve our life’s quality breath by breath, moment by moment and exercise our free will to be and do better.
Transitions are a part of our evolution of life. Change, as painful and or/ as wonderful as it may seem is a part of our evolution. We often seek to remain the same because change causes an interruption of the ebb and flow of life as we know it. The challenge is that recent times are bringing trauma to our lives on so many levels as the societal tragedies continue to occur.
If you feel stuck, unable to process, challenged by the storms of the life around you, you are not alone. Acknowledgment is the first step and sometimes you just need to hold right there. If you are feeling stuck in moving forward with the necessary changes of life, therapy is a tool to support your understanding of how to navigate change. Therapy can also help to enhance your understanding of change and help you to navigate the traumatic events of the day-to-day tragedies that may or may not cause you to be reminded of your prior tragic events. Therapy can help to guide you to navigate your tailored foot steps to walk into your change in the unique manner that you were designed.
Please note that acceptance takes time and although the change may have abruptly come, may have been planned, or may have come as the result of a something beyond your control. There are stair steps to acceptance. Yes, one can grieve the loss of the way things used to be and grieve even the new beginning. What I love about a healthy therapeutic process is that, wherever you are on your journey to acceptance, your steps are specifically and divinely designed just for you.